Yelchin was born on March 11 in 1989. His age was only 27 years old when he died. Although he has already died, he was able to recognize himself as a very successful actor in his life. He was born in Saint Petersburg which is located in Russia. Yelchin’s nationality was obviously russian. Similarly, his ethnicity was white. Yelchin was not very tall though. He had a typical height of 5 feet and 9 inches.
Yelchin was born to his parents, Victor Yelchin and Irina Korina. Both of his parents were figure skaters and they were celebrities of the Leningrad Ice Ballet for a decade and a half. However, as his parents were Jewish, the USSR never permitted them to participate in the winter Olympics. Then, his family moved to US when Yelchin was just six months old after receiving a refugee permit. Yelchin studied at Sherman Oaks Centre located in California and later joined the University of Southern California to study about acting and films.
Yelchin had performed in a lot of movies and tv shows till then. Yelchin started acting at the mere age of nine in the movie A Man Is Mostly Water. He was mostly known for performing the role of Pavel Chekov in the reboot series of star trek, Clumsy Smurf in The Smurfs as well as the sequel of this movies and several other famous roles. Yelchin also had performed several hot shirtless scenes according to the demand of the script in several movies. In a recent interview, Yelchin also talked about his upcoming movies in the future.
Even though he was a successful and accomplished actor, he had managed to keep his personal life low profile and private. Nothing much had been known about whom he was dating or his affair with his girlfriend.
Nothing much had been known about whom he was dating or his affair with his girlfriend. One thing is sure that he was not married in his life and so he did not have any wife or children. There is also a rumour that he was gay and that’s why he never married in his life. However, he never talked about his sexual preference to the media.
Yelchin was also very active in social networking sites like twitter, facebook and instagram. He had an amazing number of followers in twitter and instagram. Yelchin had also uploaded a lot of pictures and videos in his accounts. Sadly, he is no more with us. Yelchin also was a band member of the band Hammerheads. But now the band is no more as the group has disbanded. He enjoyed playing guitar as he loved acoustic blues very much.
It was the early morning of June 19 of 2016 when he was found dead by his friends. He was pinned between a brick pillar and his Jeep Grand Cherokee at the house gate in Calilfornia. It is said that he drove the car too fast on his way home while the road was steep and inclined. The car rolled back and trapped him at the brick pillar causing his death. The cause of the death was traumatic asphyxia according to the police officers.
Yelchin had earned a lot throughout his career contributing him to an astounding net worth of $ 5 million US dollars sufficient to live a comfortable and luxurious life anyone can dream of. At this pace, Yelchin would surely have enjoyed a greater net worth in the future. For more information regarding Yelchin’s biography, you can visit several wiki sites in the internet or other sites like IMDb.