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Anton Yelchin (born March 11, 1989) is a Russian-born American actor. Yelchin began acting in the late 1990s, and appeared in several television roles, as well as the Hollywood films Along Came a Spider and Hearts in Atlantis. More recently, Yelchin starred in the David Duchovny-directed film House of D and appeared on the television series Huff.

Biography

Personal life

Yelchin was born in Saint Petersburg, Russia to Irina, a figure skating choreographer, and Viktor Yelchin, a figure skating coach who was Sasha Cohen's first trainer. Yelchin's family moved to the United States in 1989, when he was six months old. He currently attends the Sherman Oaks Center for Enriched Studies, in Tarzana, California.

Career

Yelchin's roles include Jackson in A Time for Dancing, Milo in Delivering Milo, Tommy Warshaw in House of D, and "Jacob Clark" 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.

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 for release on April 4, 2007. Yelchin has also completed roles in Alpha Dog, a crime thriller scheduled for a U.S. release on January 12, 2007, and Fierce People, a drama also starring Diane Lane and Donald Sutherland.

Selected filmography

Footnotes

External links

• Anton Yelchin Online
• Anton Yelchin Resource

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