- 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 — S1E3
Episode: Open Wide, O Earth
Air Date: 2019-05-20
Runtime: 64 min
Overview
Lyudmilla Ignatenko, a Pripyat resident, ignores warning about her firefighter husband's contamination. Valery Legasov lays out a decontamination plan, complete with human risks.