That's what the real characters in the Chernobyl series looked like

Although

Chernobyl

It will end this week, for a month it has become the series that everyone has talked about. In fact
According to IMDB, it is considered the best in history. Although much of what goes on there is a fiction, the main characters in the production of
The HBOs are real, even though Ulana Khomyuk, nuclear physics played by Emily Watson, did not exist in real life.

Although we do not have the opportunity to see how real – and brave – Khomyuk was, the cast of actors and actresses who participated in the series was very full. Then the real protagonists of this
nuclear catastrophe.

1. Jared Harris as Valery Legasov

Harris is known to have played at Lane Pryce in
Mad Men and King George VI
The crown, among many other things. Legasov was a physicist physicist who headed the investigation commission on the Chernobyl disaster. He died on April 27, 1988, one day after the second anniversary of the disaster.

2. Stellan Skarsgård as Boris Shcherbina

Skarsgård is known for his roles as Bill Turner in the movies of the saga
Pirates of the Caribbean, Bill Anderson in
Mom Mia! and Dr. Erik Selvig in
Thor: The world of darkness and
Avengers: Age of Ultron. Shcherbina was deputy prime minister of the Soviet Union and chairman of the special commission charged with investigating the disaster. After a long illness, he died on August 22, 1990.

3. Jessie Buckley as Lyudmilla Ignatenko, wife of firefighter Vasily Ignatenko

Buckley began his career in a talent show on the BBC. He also participated in
West End and the television series
War and peace. The real Ignatenko is still alive today, she lives with her son in Kiev. However, she has not spoken publicly about Chernobyl and her husband because he wants to "continue his life".

4. Paul Ritter in the role of Anatoly Dyatlov, engineer responsible for Chernobyl

Ritter is known as Eldred Worple in
Harry Potter and the
Prince of mixed blood and Guy Haines in
Quantum of Solace. Dyatlov was the engineer in charge of reactor No. 4 of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant when the disaster occurred. Finally, he was convicted of criminal negligence and sentenced to 10 years in prison. He died of heart failure on December 13, 1995, more than nine years after the disaster.

5. With O Neill as Viktor Bryukhanov, director of Chernobyl

O 'Neill has appeared in several British movies and TV shows, including C
criminal justice and the miniseries
The Bible True Bryukhanov also served a 10-year prison sentence for his involvement in the disaster. In 2006, I was still alive and lived in Kiev.

6. Adrian Rawlins as Nikolai Fomin, chief engineer of Chernobyl

Rawlins is probably best known for playing James Potter in
Harry Potter and to Arthur Kidd
The woman in black, but he has also appeared in several other movies and television series, including
Doctor Who Fomin was also sentenced to 10 years in prison. There is no clear confirmation of its current status and location.

7. Sam Troughton as Aleksandr Akimov, night shift supervisor

Troughton is the grandson of Patrick Troughton, star of
Doctor Who, and appeared on British broadcasts as
Robin Hood and
The city Akimov was the shift leader of the night shift that worked the night of the disaster. He died two weeks after the accident due to his high radiation exposure.

8. Ralph Ineson as General Nikolai Tarakanov

Ineson is best known for his roles in

Game Of Thrones,

Harry Potter,

The witch and the original version of
Office for the BBC. Tarakanov, now 85 years old, would live with "ray sickness".

9. And finally, David Dencik as Mikhail Gorbachev

Dencik is a Swedish-Danish actor and has had roles in such films as
Handyman, Tailor, Soldier, Espionage and
The girl with dragon tattoo. Gorbachev was the first president of the Soviet Union from 1990 to 1991. He won the Nobel Peace Prize for his help at the end of the Cold War and remains politically active to this day.