Chernobyl
2019 historical drama television miniseries
Chernobyl dramatizes the true story of one of the worst man-made catastrophes in history and tells of the brave men and women who sacrificed to save Europe from unimaginable disaster. The miniseries focuses on the heartbreaking scope of the nuclear plant disaster that occurred in Ukraine in April 1986, revealing how and why it happened and telling the shocking, remarkable stories of the heroes who fought and fell.
Cast ages at the series premiere (May 6, 2019)
- Jared Harris, as Valery Legasov: 57
- Stellan Skarsgård, as Boris Shcherbina: 67
- Jessie Buckley, as Lyudmilla Ignatenko: 30
- Emily Watson, as Ulana Khomyuk: 52
- Paul Ritter, as Anatoly Dyatlov: 53
- Sam Troughton, as Alexandr Akimov: 42
- Robert Emms, as Leonid Toptunov: 32
- Adrian Rawlins, as Nikolai Fomin: 61
- Con O'Neill, as Viktor Bryukhanov: 52
- Ralph Ineson, as General Tarakanov: 49
- Mark Lewis Jones, as Colonel General Pikalov: 54
- David Dencik, as Michail Gorbatchev: 44
- Barry Keoghan, as Pavel Yefremov: 26
- Fares Fares, as Bacho: 46
- Alex Ferns, as Andrei Glukhov: 50
- Michael McElhatton, as Prosecutor Andrei Stepashin: 55