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- 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.
- Jared Harris/Valery Legasov
- Stellan Skarsgard/Boris Shcherbina
- Paul Ritter/Anatoly Dyatlov
- Jessie Buckley/Lyudmilla Ignatenko
- Adam Nagaitis/Vasily Ignatenko
- Con O’Neill/Viktor Bryukhanov
- Adrian Rawlins/Nikolai Fomin
- Sam Troughton/Aleksandr Akimov
- Robert Emms/Leonid Toptunov
- Ralph Ineson/General Nikolai Tarakanov
57-year-old Harris, son of notorious Hollywood hellraiser Richard Harris, plays Valery Legasov, a Soviet scientist who was the chief of the Chernobyl disaster commission. Harris is best known for his TV work, as Mad Men’s Lane Pryce and The Terror’s Captain Crozier, and his work in films such as Lincoln and Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows. [adun...
Swedish actor Skarsgard, 67, plays Boris Shcherbina, who served as the vice-chairman of the Council of Ministers from 1984 to 1989. Skarsgard, whose sons Alexander and Bill are star performers in their own right, is best known for Good Will Hunting and Dogville, as well as his work in the Pirates of the Caribbean, Thor and Mamma Mia! movies.
English actor Paul Ritter plays Anatoly Dyatlov, deputy chief-engineer of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant at the time of the disaster. Ritter is best known for his roles in British TV, in the likes of Friday Night Dinner, Cold Feet and No Offence. [adunit mobile=”RTK_wCZW”]
Irish actress Jessie Buckley, 29, plays Lyudmilla Ignatenko, wife of Vasily Ignatenko. Buckley, who first rose to fame in the BBC talent show I’d Do Anything in 2008, has starred in TV series including War & Peace and Taboo and the films Best and Wild Rose.
34-year-old English actor Adam Nagaitis plays Vasily Ignatenko, a firefighter who was one of the first on the scene of the disaster. After bit-parts in The Inbetweeners 2 and Suffragette, Nagaitis is now probably best known for his portrayal of the villainous Cornelius Hickey in The Terror. [adunit mobile=”RTK_z9hm”]
52-year-old English actor Con O’Neill plays Viktor Bryukhanov, the manager of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Planet at the time of the disaster. A prominent theatre actor who won the Olivier for Best Actor in a Musical aged just 21, O’Neill has also popped up on television in the likes of Happy Valley and Cucumber.
61-year-old Adrian Rawlins plays Nikolai Fomin, Chernobyl’s chief engineer at the time of the disaster. A prominent character actor in British TV and film productions, Rawlins will be most recognisable to audiences as the Harry Potter franchise’s James Potter. [adunit mobile=”RTK_dVa8″]
42-year-old Sam Troughton plays Aleksandr Akimov, the Soviet engineer who was Chernobyl’s night shift supervisor on the night of the failed reactor test. The grandson of Patrick Troughton, who played the second Doctor on Doctor Who, Sam Troughton is a Royal Shakespeare Company actor best known to TV audiences for Robin Hood and The Hollow Crown.
Robert Emms, from Surrey in England, plays Leonid Toptunov, the Chernobyl engineer who was only four months on the job when the disaster occurred. Appearing in a mix of film and television, Emms will be most recognisable to audiences for Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom and Atlantis. [adunit mobile=”RTK_wCZW”]
Ralph Ineson, 49, plays Nikolai Tarakanov, a Soviet military general who led the ‘Chernobyl liquidators’ in the clean-up operation around the power plant. For many, Ineson will still be best known for playing The Office’s brash Finchy, but more recently the English character actor has been seen in Game of Thrones, Peaky Blinders and, on the big scr...
- Valery Legasov - Jared Harris. The chemistry scientist and first deputy director of the Kurchatov Institute of Atomic Energy. Right after the accident, he was called to Chernobyl to liquidate the aftermath of the exposure.
- Lyudmila Ignatenko - Jessie Buckley. A wife of a fireman called to extinguish the fire. She was pregnant but still went to the Moscow’s hospital where he was transferred to and spent his last days by his side.
- Vasily Ignatenko - Adam Nagaitis. Lyudmila’s husband took a day off on April 26, 1986 - they planned to have a picnic in the countryside. However, during that fateful night, he was called to put out the fire at Chernobyl and never came back home.
- Boris Shcherbina - Stellan Skarsgård. When the Chernobyl catastrophe happened, Shcherbina was a Deputy Chairman of the Soviet government and was sent to arrange the liquidation of the accident aftermath.
May 29, 2019 · The dramatization of the 1986 nuclear accident displays the harrowing human experiences amid the tragedy.
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He has acted in both Swedish and Danish films, and has also had major roles in English-language films and series including Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011), The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011), Top of the Lake (2017), McMafia (2018), Chernobyl (2019), and the James Bond film No Time to Die (2021).
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