Anton Yelchin, the Star Trek and Green Room actor who died aged 27 in June 2016, has been remembered in the In Memoriam section of the 2017 Oscars.
The film world was shocked when it was announced that Yelchin had died following a freak accident at home, involving his car.
Born in Russia in 1989, Yelchin was brought to the US as a baby after his champion ice-skater parents were classed as refugees by the State Department. He began acting professionally aged 9, and appeared in TV shows such as Curb Your Enthusiasm and Criminal Minds, as well as films such as Alpha Dog and Fierce People.
However, it was being cast as Pavel Chekov, navigator of the USS Enterprise in the 2009 Star Trek film, directed by JJ Abrams, that brought his name to a wide international audience. His immediate likability in the role saw his career expand rapidly: he starred alongside Felicity Jones in Like Crazy, the Sundance award-winning romance directed by Drake Doremus, and with Patrick Stewart in Green Room, the punk-club horror film directed by Jeremy Saulnier.
Yelchin also reprised his Chekov role in subsequent Star Trek films – Star Trek Into Darkness and Star Trek Beyond – the latter of which was released shortly after his death.
