
‘Star Trek’ actor Anton Yelchin has died

Anton Yelchin, known for playing Chekov in the recent Star Trek films, has died. He was 27. Friends went to Yelchin’s Studio City, CA home early Sunday morning after he didn’t show up for a rehearsal. There they discovered him pinned between his own car and a brick pillar. “It appears he momentarily exited his car, and it rolled backward, causing trauma that led to his death,” an Lapd spokeswoman told The Hollywood Reporter. His death comes just about a month ahead of the opening of the third of the rebooted Star Trek movies: Star Trek Beyond comes out July 22. Among Yelchin’s other film roles were horror remake Fright Night, crime thriller Alpha Dog, teenage comedy Charlie Bartlett, Felicity Jones romantic drama Like Crazy, and last year’s Shakespeare adaptation Cymbeline. Yelchin also previously played guitar in punk band The Hammerheads. He was born in Saint Petersburg, Russia...
- 6/19/2016
- by Emily Rome
- Hitfix
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