He and Walter Koenig, who preceded him as Pavel Chekov, are both of Russian Jewish ancestry.
Guilt is a very important part of my personality... There are two things at work here, history and genetics. The history of Eastern European Jews, Ashkenazi Jews, has not been very pleasant. And I'm not just talking about World War II, but centuries...
Curly brown hair
Anton Viktorovich Yelchin
Leningrad, Russian SFSR, USSR [now St. Petersburg, Russia]
(age 27)
Studio City, California, USA