Anton Yelchin began his career as a child actor, appearing as the lead of the mystery drama film Hearts in Atlantis and a series regular on the Showtime comedy-drama Huff.
33 Facts About Anton Yelchin
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Anton Yelchin reprised his role as Chekov in the sequels Star Trek Into Darkness and Star Trek Beyond.
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Anton Yelchin frequently worked on independent and lower-profile films, headlining the romantic drama Like Crazy, the 2011 remake of Fright Night, the supernatural thriller Odd Thomas, the romance 5 to 7, the horror comedy Burying the Ex, the neo noir The Driftless Area, and the horror thriller Green Room.
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Anton Yelchin maintained an active career up until his accidental death in 2016 when he was fatally injured by his SUV.
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Anton Yelchin was born on March 11,1989, in Leningrad, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union.
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Anton Yelchin's family is Jewish, and were subjected to religious and political oppression in the Soviet Union.
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Anton Yelchin said that his grandparents "suffered in ways [he] can't even begin to understand under Stalin".
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Nationally, Anton Yelchin's parents were the third-ranked pair team; they thus qualified for the 1972 Winter Olympics, but were not permitted to participate by the Soviet authorities.
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Yelchin's 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.
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Anton Yelchin's mother worked as a figure skating choreographer and his father as a figure skating coach, having been Sasha Cohen's first trainer.
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Anton Yelchin's uncle is the children's author and painter Eugene Anton Yelchin.
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Anton Yelchin 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.
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In Showtime's television series Huff, Anton Yelchin played Byrd Huffstodt, the 14-year-old son of the eponymous character.
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Anton Yelchin subsequently headlined Fierce People, which received a limited release on September 7,2007.
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Anton Yelchin played supporting roles in two blockbuster films released in May 2009: Star Trek, in which he played teenage navigator Pavel Chekov, and Terminator Salvation, in which he played a young Kyle Reese.
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In 2011, Anton Yelchin played Charley Brewster in Craig Gillespie's remake film Fright Night, starred in the romantic drama Like Crazy, and voiced Clumsy Smurf in the film adaptation of The Smurfs and its sequel.
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Anton Yelchin voiced Shun in Studio Ghibli's From Up on Poppy Hill.
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Anton Yelchin again played the role of Chekov in the 2013 film Star Trek Into Darkness.
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Anton Yelchin played the lead in the thriller Odd Thomas as well as the horror comedy Burying the Ex and the romantic film 5 to 7.
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In 2015, Anton Yelchin starred in the independent horror film Green Room, which premiered at the Cannes film festival that year and received limited theatrical release in May 2016, and the neo noir film The Driftless Area.
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Shortly before his death, Anton Yelchin reprised his role as Chekov in Star Trek Beyond, which was released on July 22,2016.
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Anton Yelchin completed filming several independent films which were released posthumously.
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Anton Yelchin recorded the voice role of Jim in Guillermo del Toro's Trollhunters: Tales of Arcadia.
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Anton Yelchin enjoyed playing guitar, which he said gave him fulfillment, and was a fan of acoustic blues music.
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Anton Yelchin once played for a punk band called The Hammerheads.
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Anton Yelchin's photography has since been critically acclaimed by various magazines around the world as exhibits continue.
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Anton Yelchin briefly dated his co-star Kristen Stewart when they were filming Fierce People; after his death, she described him as her "first heartbreak".
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Anton Yelchin was featured in the "In Memoriam" section during the 89th Academy Awards.
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In October 2017, a bronze statue of Anton Yelchin was erected at his grave in the Hollywood Forever Cemetery.
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Anton Yelchin was memorialized in the online video game Star Trek Online.
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Anton Yelchin received a memorial plaque alongside several other late Star Trek actors, including Nimoy, James Doohan, and Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry.
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Canonically, Anton Yelchin Chekov is the son of Pavel Chekov, and was voiced by Walter Koenig, the first actor who played Pavel Chekov in Star Trek: The Original Series.
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The dealership from which Anton Yelchin purchased the vehicle stated that he was responsible for his own death, because he had allegedly "misused" and "modified" the vehicle.