- Jared Harris (Valery Legasov)
- Stellan Skarsgård (Boris Shcherbina)
- Emily Watson (Ulana Khomyuk)
- Paul Ritter (Anatoly Dyatlov)
- Jessie Buckley (Lyudmilla Ignatenko)
- Adam Nagaitis (Vasily Ignatenko)
- Sam Troughton (Alexandr Akimov)
- Robert Emms (Leonid Toptunov)
- Con O'Neill (Viktor Bryukhanov)
- Adrian Rawlins (Nikolai Fomin)
- Alan Williams (KGB Chairman Charkov)
- David Dencik (Mikhail Gorbachev)
- Mark Lewis Jones (General Pikalov)
- Ralph Ineson (General Tarakanov)
- Barry Keoghan (Pavel)
- Alex Ferns (Glukhov)
- Fares Fares (Bacho)
- Michael McElhatton (Prosecutor Andrei Stepashin)
Chernobyl — S1E2
Episode: Please Remain Calm
Air Date: 2019-05-13
Runtime: 66 min
Rating: 9.2 (229 votes)
Overview
With untold millions at risk after the Chernobyl explosion, nuclear physicist Ulana Khomyuk makes a desperate attempt to reach Valery Legasov, a leading Soviet nuclear physicist, and warn him about the threat of second explosion that could devastate the continent.
Main Cast ▼
Guest Stars ▼
- Laura Elphinstone (Oksana)
- Nadia Clifford (Dr. Svetlana Zinchenko)
- Matthew Needham (Dmitri)
- Rosie Sheehy (Nurse Pripyat)
- Tomas Žaibus (Soldier (Hospital))
- Ron Cook (Old Maternity Doctor)
- Peter Guinness (Major Burov)
- Laurence Spellman (Commission Heli Pilot)
- Alison Pargeter (BCP HQ Aide Female)
- Victor McGuire (Garanin)
- Sakalas Uždavinys (Ilya Ivanovich Chulkov)
- Aidas Jurgaitis (Soldier (Shelter))
- Aiste S. Gram (Bartender in Polyissa Hotel)
- Daniel Crossley (Stasiuk)
- Lucy Russell (Marina Gruzinskaya)
- Donald Sumpter (Zharkov)
- Diarmaid Murtagh (Zukauskas)
- Natasha Radski (Russian News Reader)
- Yitzchak Averbuch (General)
- Joe Tucker (Plant Employee)
- Philip Barantini (Bezpalov)
- Oscar Dyekjær Giese (Baranov)
- Baltasar Breki Samper (Ananenko)
- Darius Petkevičius (Local Husband)
- Amanda Drew (Kremlin Aide Female)
- Michael Socha (Mikhail)
- Cait Davis (Local Wife at Bar)
- Karl Davies (Viktor Proskuryakov)
- Jan Ričica (Oksana's Kid)
Crew ▼
- Christian Waite — Visual Effects Supervisor
- Stanislav Samuchov — Stunts
- Gary Connery — Stunt Coordinator
- Edvinas Brasas — Stunts
- Olexander Denyanchuk — Stunts
- Leonidas Kotikas — Stunts
- Glenn Marks — Stunt Coordinator
- Ruslan Gorily — Stunt Coordinator
- Jack Phillips — Roto Supervisor
- Mantas Puodžiūnas — Stunts
- Michael Wiles — VFX Production Coordinator
- Simon Smith — Editor
- Craig Mazin — Writer
- Duncan Jarman — Prosthetics Sculptor
- Chris Lyons — Special Effects Makeup Artist
- Johan Renck — Director