{"id":1695,"date":"2016-06-21T22:33:58","date_gmt":"2016-06-22T03:33:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thevoicerealm.com\/blog\/?p=1695"},"modified":"2025-11-14T06:55:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-14T11:55:08","slug":"antonio-yelchin-dies-in-an-accident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thevoicerealm.com\/blog\/antonio-yelchin-dies-in-an-accident\/","title":{"rendered":"Antonio Yelchin, Dies In An Accident"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thevoicerealm.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/the-smurfs.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1697 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thevoicerealm.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/the-smurfs-300x165.jpg\" alt=\"the smurfs\" width=\"300\" height=\"165\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thevoicerealm.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/the-smurfs-300x165.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.thevoicerealm.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/the-smurfs-768x421.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.thevoicerealm.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/the-smurfs-1024x562.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.thevoicerealm.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/the-smurfs-720x395.jpg 720w, https:\/\/www.thevoicerealm.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/the-smurfs.jpg 1789w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>He played Chekov in <em>Star Trek Into Darkness<\/em> in 2013, the same character in <em>Star Trek Beyond<\/em> in 2016, as Pat in <em>The Green Room<\/em> (2015), Pierre in <em>The Driftless Area<\/em> (2015), Odd Thomas in <em>Odd Thomas<\/em> (2013) and many other movies. &nbsp;In addition, he is also an accomplished voice actor having been the voice behind Clumsy in <em>The Smurfs<\/em> (2011), <em>The Smurfs: A Christmas Carol<\/em> (2011), <em>The Smurfs: The Legend of Smurfy Hollow<\/em> (2013), and <em>The Smurfs 2<\/em> (2013). &nbsp;He also voiced for game characters &#8211; again Chekov in the <em>Star Trek Video Game<\/em> and Clumsy in <em>The Smurfs 2 Video Game<\/em>. &nbsp;He\u2019s also had numerous roles in TV series such as <em>Judging Amy<\/em>, <em>Criminal Minds<\/em>, <em>Law &amp; Order: Criminal Intent<\/em>, <em>NYPD Blue<\/em>, and<em> The Practice<\/em>, among others.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thevoicerealm.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Star_Trek_Classic_logo.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-1699 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thevoicerealm.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Star_Trek_Classic_logo-300x300.png\" alt=\"Star_Trek_Classic_logo\" width=\"206\" height=\"206\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thevoicerealm.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Star_Trek_Classic_logo-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/www.thevoicerealm.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Star_Trek_Classic_logo-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.thevoicerealm.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Star_Trek_Classic_logo.png 650w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 206px) 100vw, 206px\" \/><\/a>He died at age 27 and for such a young life, Antonio Yelchin has accomplished a lot as an actor and voice actor. &nbsp;Antonio was born March 11, 1989, his parents were a pair of figure skaters and they emigrated to the United States when he was only six &nbsp;months old. &nbsp;He was an only child. &nbsp;His first acting experiencing was when he was ten, in an episode of <em>ER<\/em> and he went on acting since then. &nbsp;His hard work paid off and his career really took off when J.J Abrams cast him as Chekov.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">J.J Abrams also leads the tributes to Antonio Yelchin &nbsp;as reported by BBC on the same day of his passing. &nbsp;The details surrounding his death are not very clear but it appears that he was killed in his home, crushed by his own car in a driveway with a steep incline. &nbsp;His friends were concerned when he did not show up for a rehearsal on time. &nbsp;They went to his home and found him pinned between his car and a brick mailbox, this was in the morning of June 20. &nbsp;His car was still running on neutral at that time. &nbsp;Antonio Yelchin\u2019s family requests that the public respects their privacy at this painful and difficult time. &nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He played Chekov in Star Trek Into Darkness in 2013, the same character in Star Trek Beyond in 2016, as Pat in The Green&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1696,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36,425],"tags":[433,352],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevoicerealm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1695"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevoicerealm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevoicerealm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevoicerealm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevoicerealm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1695"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevoicerealm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1695\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4756,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevoicerealm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1695\/revisions\/4756"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevoicerealm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevoicerealm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevoicerealm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevoicerealm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}