T'Chaka — Black Panther Character Profile

About T'Chaka

The former king of Wakanda and father of T'Challa, whose death sets off the events of Black Panther.

Affiliations

• Marvel Cinematic Universe

Quick Facts about T'Chaka

Eye Color

Brown

Hair Color

Black hair

First Appearance

Black Panther

T'Chaka's Known Relations

• T'Challa — Child
• Shuri — Child

T'Chaka appears in 2 titles

• Captain America: Civil War (2016) — character page
• Black Panther (2018)

Character Facts

Played by

John Kani

Appears in

Black Panther (2018)

Role

Minor

Relationships (3)

• T'Chaka — Family Father — T'Challa / Black Panther (Chadwick Boseman)

  Paternal lineage and royal inheritance.

• T'Chaka — Social Friend — Zuri (Forest Whitaker)

  Longstanding friendship and political counsel.

• T'Chaka — Family Brother — N'Jobu (Sterling K. Brown)

  Familial divide over national ideology.

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More characters from Black Panther

• T'Challa / Black Panther (Chadwick Boseman)
• Erik Killmonger (Michael B. Jordan)
• Nakia (Lupita Nyong'o)
• Everett K. Ross (Martin Freeman)
• W'Kabi (Daniel Kaluuya)
• Okoye (Danai Gurira)
• Zuri (Forest Whitaker)
• M'Baku (Winston Duke)
• Shuri (Letitia Wright)
• Ramonda (Angela Bassett)
• N'Jobu (Sterling K. Brown)
• Ulysses Klaue (Andy Serkis)