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- Jared Harris as Valery Legasov
- Stellan Skarsgård as Boris Shcherbina
- Jessie Buckley as Lyudmilla Ignatenko, wife of fireman Vasily Ignatenko
- Paul Ritter as Anatoly Dyatlov, deputy chief-engineer of Chernobyl
- Jared Harris As Valery Legasov, Scientist. Valery Legasov was the deputy director of the Kurchatov Institute of Atomic Energy, and was part of the team responsible for investigating the accident at Chernobyl.
- Jessie Buckley As Lyudmila Ignatenko, Vasily's Wife. Lyudmila, wife of the firefighter Vasily Ignatenko, faced a heartbreaking two weeks watching her husband die in agony.
- Stellan Skarsgard As Boris Shcherbina, Deputy Prime Minister. In 1976, Shcherbina became a member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and kept the position until his death.
- Adam Nagaitis As Vasily Ignatenko, A Pripyat Firefighter. Vasily Ignatenko, husband of Lyudmila, was one of the many firefighters that were first on the scene of the roof fire, unaware of the true extent of the situation.
Sep 21, 2019 · Most of the characters who appear in the show existed in real life — and a few have been willing to share their stories. We rounded up actual accounts of the moment when disaster struck on April ...
- Aria Bendix
- Valery Legasov
- Boris Shcherbina
- Anatoly Dyatlov
- Vasily and Lyudmila Ignatenko
- Chernobyl Reactor Operators
Played by Jared Harris in HBO's Chernobyl, Valery Legasov was chief of the commission investigating the Chernobyl disaster and a prominent member of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR. Legasov committed suicide two years after the Chernobyl disaster—a 1993 articlein the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists attributed his death to disillusionment over...
Where Legasov is the principled scientist, Skargard's character, the real-life Deputy Prime Minister Scherbina, represents the reluctant Soviet government. Shcherbina would rather sweep the Chernobyl disaster under the rug rather than deal with the consequences honestly. He can be seen in the trailer, downplaying the threat of radiation on the site...
Dyatlov was the deputy chief engineer at Chernobyl and the supervisor for the disastrous experiment that resulted in the April 26 explosion. He was sentenced to ten years in a labor camp (and served five) for his role in the meltdown. Despite absorbing a near-deadly dose of radiation, Dyatlov lived until 1995.
Firefighter Vasily Ignatenko was one of 28 first responders, including Power Station employees, who died from radiation in the weeks following the explosion. In Chernobyl, he's played by Adam Nagaitis, who has acted alongside Harris before, in The Terror. His wife Lyudmila Ignatenko, played by Jessie Buckley, is also a real person, who described th...
The HBO miniseries includes many of the real people operating the reactor at the time of the meltdown. Alexander Akimov (Sam Troughton) was the night crew shift supervisor during the early morning hours test that resulted in the reactor explosion. He was initially opposed to conducting the test, but Dyatlov threatened his job. Leonid Toptunov (Robe...
Chernobyl is a 2019 historical drama television miniseries that revolves around the Chernobyl disaster of 1986 and the cleanup efforts that followed. The series was created and written by Craig Mazin and directed by Johan Renck. It features an ensemble cast led by Jared Harris, Stellan Skarsgård, Emily Watson, and Paul Ritter.
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May 7, 2019 · The show features an ensemble cast, including Jared Harris, Stellan Skarsgard and Emily Watson, to dramatise the world's worst ever nuclear disaster and what happened afterwards. In the early...
May 2, 2019 · written by Elena Nicolaou. Courtesy of HBO. Most of the characters in HBO's chilling "Chernobyl" series are based on real people. But no, they didn't do Russian accents.
