Anton Yelchin was born in Russia but immigrated to the States from Russia with his figure skater parents when he was 6 months old. His first acting appearances were in A Man Is mostly Water in 1999 and as the featured performer in the made for tv movie Geppetto in 2000.
 Anton was most recently seen with Anthony Hopkins in Hearts in Atlantis, where he played the role of Bobby Garfield. He won a Young Artist Award for his performance in this film. Before that he played Dimitry in Along Came a Spider and had a small role in 15 Minutes, he was the little boy in the burning building.
 On tv he was featured in the tv movie Geppetto, and made a guest appearance on every child stars fav guest spot, ER. He also guested on Judging Amy and On Nov 17 2002 appeared in the excellent ABC Drama The Practice. He will be seen this December in the television mini-series Taken he plays Jacob Clarke. Trivia Is an only child.....Loves playing chess and reading....Plays the piano and the guitar. Both his parents are still involved in figure skating. His father Viktor is a coach in California and his mother Irina is a figure skating choreographer.