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Anton Yelchin Profile |
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Birth Date: March 11, 1989
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Birth Place: St. Petersburg, Russia
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Birth Name: Anton Yelchin
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Height: 5'9"
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Biography |
Anton Yelchin (born March 11, 1989) is an American film and
television actor. He began performing in the late 1990s,
appearing in several television roles, as well as the
Hollywood films Along Came a Spider and Hearts in Atlantis.
More recently, Yelchin appeared on the television series
Huff and starred in the films House of D and Alpha Dog.
Yelchin was born in Saint Petersburg, Russia to Irina Korina
and Viktor Yelchin, figure skaters who were national
celebrities as stars of the Leningrad Ice Ballet for fifteen
years. Yelchin's parents qualified for the 1972 Winter
Olympics but because they were Jewish, were not permitted to
participate by the Soviet authorities. Yelchin's family
moved to the United States in September of 1989, receiving
status as refugees from political and religious oppression.
Yelchin's mother now works as a figure skating choreographer
and his father as a figure skating coach, having been Sasha
Cohen's first trainer. Yelchin enjoys playing the guitar,
saying that it gives him "a lot of fulfillment", and is a
fan of acoustic blues music. He attends the Sherman Oaks
Center for Enriched Studies, in Tarzana, California and
began acting at the age of nine, in the independent film A
Man is Mostly Water.
Yelchin's earliest roles include playing Jackson in A Time
for Dancing, Milo in Delivering Milo, Tommy Warshaw in House
of D, and "Jacob Clarke" in the mini-series Taken. He made a
guest appearance as Stewart, Cheryl David's nephew and a
self-described magician (who only knows one card trick), in
a season four episode of Curb Your Enthusiasm, and starred
as Byrd Huffstodt, the fourteen year-old son of Dr. Craig
"Huff" Huffstodt (Hank Azaria) on the television series
Huff, which ran from 2004 to 2006. In 2006, he also had a
role on an episode of the series Law & Order: Criminal
Intent, playing the son of a dead doctor. His biggest film
recognition came for the role of Bobby Garfield in Hearts in
Atlantis (2001), for which he won Best Performance in a
Feature Film - Leading Young Actor at the 2002 Young Artist
Awards.
Yelchin's most recent role was in Alpha Dog, a crime
thriller that received a U.S. release on January 12, 2007.
In the film, he played Zack Mazursky, who is based on
real-life kidnap and murder victim Nicholas Markowitz. USA
Today's review described the performance as "heartbreakingly
endearing". Yelchin felt awkward appearing in the swimming
pool-set sexual scene in the film, specifying that he felt
"uncomfortable" for his co-stars and that he could not
"imagine enjoying it or taking pleasure" in filming the
scene.
During the summer of 2006, Yelchin filmed Charlie Bartlett,
in which he plays the title role of a wealthy teenager in a
public high school, opposite actors Robert Downey Jr., Hope
Davis and Kat Dennings; the film is scheduled to premiere at
the Tribeca Film Festival and to be released in theaters on
August 3, 2007. Yelchin has also completed another film,
Fierce People, a drama starring Diane Lane and Donald
Sutherland and scheduled for a limited release on July 20,
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Other Information |
Immigrated to the United States from Russia with his
figure-skater parents when he was 6 months old.
Dad, Victor, mom, Irina.
Is an only child.
Loves playing chess and reading.
Plays the piano and the guitar.
Both his parents are still involved in figure skating. His
father Viktor is a coach in California and his mother Irina
is a figure skating choreographer.
His parents were both well-known figure skaters in the
Soviet Union, considered national celebrities as stars of
the Leningrad Ice Ballet for 15 years. The two qualified for
the 1972 Winter Olympics, but because they were Jewish, were
not permitted to attend by the Soviet authorities. |
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