Chernobyl (2019) Cast & Crew

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Created by Craig Mazin.

Cast

• Jared Harris as Valery Legasov
• Stellan Skarsgård as Boris Shcherbina
• Emily Watson as Ulana Khomyuk
• Paul Ritter as Anatoly Dyatlov
• Jessie Buckley as Lyudmilla Ignatenko
• Adam Nagaitis as Vasily Ignatenko
• Sam Troughton as Alexandr Akimov
• Robert Emms as Leonid Toptunov
• Con O'Neill as Viktor Bryukhanov
• Adrian Rawlins as Nikolai Fomin
• Alan Williams as KGB Chairman Charkov
• David Dencik as Mikhail Gorbachev
• Mark Lewis Jones as General Pikalov
• Ralph Ineson as General Tarakanov
• Barry Keoghan as Pavel
• Alex Ferns as Glukhov
• Fares Fares as Bacho
• Michael McElhatton as Prosecutor Andrei Stepashin

Crew

• Sanne Wohlenberg — Producer
• Jakob Ihre — Director of Photography
• Hildur Guðnadóttir — Original Music Composer

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