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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.
- 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...
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May 7, 2019 · More than 33 years after the disaster, HBO and Sky Atlantic are set to air a big-budget miniseries based on the explosion at Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant.. The show features an ensemble cast ...
Sep 21, 2019 · Real-life characters in HBO's 'Chernobyl' on the moment they found out about the world's worst nuclear-power-plant accident. Aria Bendix. Updated. Sep 21, 2019, 1:53 PM PDT. Paul Ritter plays ...
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May 2, 2019 · May 2, 2019, 10:35 AM. Courtesy of HBO. On April 25, 1986, one of the reactors at the the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant malfunctioned. Plumes of radioactive smoke rose in the town of Pripyat ...
