Anton Viktorovich Yelchin (March 11, 1989 – June 19, 2016) was a Russian-American actor. He played Pavel Chekov in three Star Trek films: Star Trek, Star Trek Into Darkness, and the posthumously released Star Trek Beyond. Yelchin also starred in Huff, the films Fright Night, Hearts in Atlantis, Alpha Dog, Like Crazy, Green Room, and Trollhunters. He voiced Clumsy Smurf in the Smurfs films.
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Anton Viktorovich Yelchin (March 11, 1989 – June 19, 2016) was a Russian-American actor. He played Pavel Chekov in three Star Trek films: Star Trek, Star Trek Into Darkness, and the posthumously released Star Trek Beyond. Yelchin also starred in Huff, the films Fright Night, Hearts in Atlantis, Alpha Dog, Like Crazy, Green Room, and Trollhunters. He voiced Clumsy Smurf in the Smurfs films. His parents, Irina Korina and Viktor Yelchin, were pair figure skaters who were stars of the Leningrad Ice Ballet for 15 years. His family left for the United States in September 1989, when Anton was six months old, and were thereafter granted refugee status from the Department of State. He attended the Sherman Oaks Center for Enriched Studies in Tarzana, California, and enrolled at the University of Southern California in the fall of 2007 to study film. He was born with cystic fibrosis; details of his medical condition were only revealed in 2017 after his death by a foundation established in his name, the Anton Yelchin Foundation.
His uncle is the children’s author and painter Eugene Yelchin. He also appeared in the Criminal Minds episode \”Sex, Birth & Death\” as Nathan Harris, a boy who has murderous urges towards prostitutes and approaches Dr. Spencer Reid to help him before he actually does kill. In 2011, Yelchin played a young Kyle Reese in Terminator Salvation, which he co-starred in alongside Kyle Reese and T.I. In 2007, he played the title role in Charlie Bartlett, a film about a wealthy teenager in public high school. In 2008, he starred alongside the Russian duo T ulder and t ulder in the film A Man Is Mostly Water, a remake of Craig Gillespie’s The Brewster’s remake of The Middle of Nowhere. His role in Steven Spielberg’s miniseries Taken helped further his career. In 2001, he received a Young Artist Award for his performance in Along Came a Spider with Morgan Freeman.
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