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Jared Francis Harris (born 24 August 1961) is an English actor. [1] His roles include Lane Pryce in the drama series Mad Men (2009–2012), for which he was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series; King George VI in the historical drama series The Crown (2016–2017); and Valery Legasov in the miniseries Chernobyl (2019), for which he won the BAFTA TV Award for Best Actor and was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead ...
Valery Alekseyevich Legasov was born on 1 September 1936 in Tula, Russian SFSR, into a family of civil workers. [2][3][4] He attended secondary school in Kursk. [2] In 1949–1954, he attended School No. 56 in Moscow and graduated with a gold medal. [2] While he was a shy student, he excelled in both academic work and social activities being ...
Chernobyl (TV Mini Series 2019) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more. ... Valery Legasov 5 episodes, 2019 Stellan ...
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- Valery Legasov (Jared Harris) Played by Jared Harris in HBO's Chernobyl, Valery Legasov was chief of the commission investigating the Chernobyl disaster and a prominent member of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR.
- Boris Shcherbina (Stellan Skarsgard) Where Legasov is the principled scientist, Skargard's character, the real-life Deputy Prime Minister Scherbina, represents the reluctant Soviet government.
- Anatoly Dyatlov (Paul Ritter) Dyatlov was the deputy chief engineer at Chernobyl and the supervisor for the disastrous experiment that resulted in the April 26 explosion.
- Vasily and Lyudmila Ignatenko (Adam Nagaitis and Jessie Buckley) Related Stories. Chernobyl Disaster True Stories: First Responders Speak on Radiation Deaths.
Chernobyl: Created by Craig Mazin. With Jessie Buckley, Jared Harris, Stellan Skarsgård, Adam Nagaitis. In April 1986, the city of Chernobyl in the Soviet Union suffers one of the worst nuclear disasters in the history of mankind.
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This opening scene of HBO’s ‘Chernobyl’ mini-series sets the tone for the horrific story of the 1986 nuclear disaster and Valery Legasov, a prominent Soviet inorganic chemist, who played a ...
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Played by: Jared Harris Valery Legasov was a leading Soviet nuclear physicist, and part of the Chernobyl response team. The Deputy Director of the Kurchatov Institute of Atomic Energy, he was among the first to grasp the scope of the unparalleled disaster that had occurred.
