Chernobyl (2019) Cast & Character Guide — No Spoilers | Who's That?
Who plays who in Chernobyl (2019)? Browse a spoiler-free character guide with photos of every major character and the actors behind them, including Jared Harris, Stellan Skarsgård, Emily Watson.
- Valery Legasov — played by Jared Harris
- Boris Shcherbina — played by Stellan Skarsgård
- Ulana Khomyuk — played by Emily Watson
- Anatoly Dyatlov — played by Paul Ritter
- Lyudmilla Ignatenko — played by Jessie Buckley
- Vasily Ignatenko — played by Adam Nagaitis
- Alexandr Akimov — played by Sam Troughton
- Leonid Toptunov — played by Robert Emms
- Viktor Bryukhanov — played by Con O'Neill
- Nikolai Fomin — played by Adrian Rawlins
- KGB Chairman Charkov — played by Alan Williams
- Mikhail Gorbachev — played by David Dencik
- General Pikalov — played by Mark Lewis Jones
- General Tarakanov — played by Ralph Ineson
- Pavel — played by Barry Keoghan
- Glukhov — played by Alex Ferns
- Bacho — played by Fares Fares
- Prosecutor Andrei Stepashin — played by Michael McElhatton
- Oksana — played by Laura Elphinstone
- Mikhail — played by Michael Socha