This is sad news as he was one of the best things about the reboot JJ Abrams
trek verse.  I doubt they will ever find a better Checkov than this.
Especially liked the accent he did... spot on.

RIP Anton Yelchin... ti's a shame you were taken from us this early age.

Allen

Just in on 6/19/2016

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Anton Yelchin, a rising actor best known for playing Chekov
in the new "Star Trek" films, was killed by his own car as it
rolled backward
down his driveway early Sunday, police and his publicist said.
The car pinned Yelchin, 27, against a brick mailbox pillar and a security fence
at his home in Studio City, according to Los Angeles police Officer Jenny
Hosier. He had gotten out of the vehicle momentarily, but police did not say
why he was behind it when it started rolling.

Yelchin was on his way to meet friends for a rehearsal, Hosier said. When he
didn't show up, the group came to his home and found him dead.

The freak accident tragically cuts short the promising career of an actor whom
audiences were still getting to know.

Yelchin began acting as a child, taking small roles in independent films and
various television shows, such as "ER," ''The Practice," and
"Curb Your
Enthusiasm." His breakout big-screen role came opposite Anthony Hopkins in
2001's "Hearts in Atlantis."

He transitioned into teenage roles in films such as the crime thriller "Alpha
Dog" and the teen comedy "Charlie Bartlett." He also played
a young Kyle Reese
in 2009's "Terminator Salvation."

Yelchin, an only child, was born in Russia. His parents were professional
figure skaters who moved the family to the United States when Yelchin was a
baby. He briefly flirted with skating lessons, too, before discovering that he
wasn't very skilled on the ice. That led him to acting class.

"I loved the improvisation part of it the most, because it was a lot like just
playing around with stuff. There was something about it that I just felt
completely comfortable doing and happy doing," Yelchin told The Associated
Press in 2011 while promoting the romantic drama "Like Crazy." He starred
opposite Felicity Jones.

"(My father) still wanted me to apply to college and stuff, and I
did," Yelchin
said. "But this is what I wanted."

His biggest role to date has been in the rebooted "Star Trek" films as the
heavily accented navigator Chekov, for which he was able to draw on his Russian
roots. The third film in the series, "Star Trek Beyond," comes out in July.

"What's great about him is he can do anything. He's a chameleon. He can do
bigger movies or smaller, more intimate ones," ''Like Crazy" director Drake
Doremus told the AP in 2011. "There are a lot of people who can't, who can only
do one or the other. ... That's what blows my mind."

Yelchin transitioned between the big sci-fi franchise and voicing a part for
"The Smurfs." He also appeared in more eccentric and artier fare, like Jim
Jarmusch's vampire film "Only Lovers Left Alive" and Jeremy
Saulnier's horror
thriller "Green Room," a cult favorite that came out earlier this year.

The actor's publicist, Jennifer Allen, confirmed his death and said his family
requests privacy.

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