ACTOR
Anton Yelchin
- Known for
- Charlie Bartlett (2007), Like Crazy (2011), Odd Thomas (2013), The Beaver (2011)
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Anton Yelchin is an actor best known for Charlie Bartlett, Like Crazy and Odd Thomas.
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- #001
The 2015 Jeep Grand Cherokee that struck and killed Anton Yelchin was part of a recall issued in 2016 for the same defect. Incredibly, the recall notice was mailed to Yelchin seven days after his untimely death.
- #002
The producers of Star Trek said the role of Pavel Chekov would not be recast and that the character would be written out of subsequent films. Star Trek Beyond (2016) was dedicated to his memory.
- #003
In October 2017, a bronze statue of Anton Yelchin was unveiled at his grave in Hollywood Forever Cemetery. Celebrities present at the unveiling included Jennifer Lawrence, Zoe Saldaña, J. J. Abrams, Emile Hirsch, Demi Moore, Jon Voight, Drake Doremus and Jeremy Saulnier.
- #004
Smurfs: The Lost Village (2017) is dedicated to his memory, as he voiced Clumsy Smurf in the live-action Smurfs films. We Don't Belong Here (2017), Rememory (2017), Porto (2016), Newness (2017) and the first two episodes of Trollhunters: Tales of Arcadia (2016) were also dedicated to his memory.
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He and Walter Koenig, who played Pavel Chekov before him, were both of Russian Jewish descent.
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Until his untimely death, he suffered from the genetic disease cystic fibrosis, which had not been disclosed publicly.
- #007
He was a big fan of acoustic blues music.
- #008
In a sense, he played younger versions of two classic science-fiction film characters. He played Pavel Chekov in Star Trek (2009) and Kyle Reese in Terminator Salvation (2009). In Star Trek, the original Chekov was actually 31 years old, while Yelchin was 20, even though the characters were the same age. In Terminator, Arnold Schwarzenegger was 28, whereas Yelchin, whose character was actually younger, was 20.
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After his untimely death, he was buried at Mount Sinai Memorial Park Cemetery in Los Angeles, California. His remains were later moved to Hollywood Forever Cemetery.
- #010
In the film Burying the Ex, while going on a date with actress Alexandra Daddario, the characters go to Hollywood Forever Cemetery, where he was in fact buried shortly afterward in real life.
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Anton Yelchin's uncle is Eugene Yelchin, an illustrator, character designer and storyboard artist for film and television who is also a novelist and children's book author.
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He was named one of People magazine's 100 Most Beautiful People (2009).
- #013
He auditioned for Peter Parker/Spider-Man in The Amazing Spider-Man (2012) and for Reed Richards/Mister Fantastic in Fantastic Four (2015), both based on rebooted Marvel Comics heroes.
- #014
He and Mika Boorem were on-screen sweethearts in two completely unrelated films in the same year: Dimitri and Megan in Along Came a Spider (2001) and Bobby and Carol in Hearts in Atlantis (2001).
- #015
In 2007, he was cast as Wally West/The Flash in a Justice League film that George Miller was proposed to direct, but the project was cancelled.
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He attended and graduated from high school at the Sherman Oaks Center for Enriched Studies in Reseda, California.
- #017
Hope Davis played his mother on screen in two films: Hearts in Atlantis (2001) and Charlie Bartlett (2007).
- #018
He was a die-hard fan of the Los Angeles Kings.
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