Anton Viktorovich Yelchin (; born March 11, 1989) is an American film and television actor. He began performing in the late 1990s, appearing in several television roles and the Hollywood films Along Came a Spider and Hearts in Atlantis (both 2001). Yelchin later appeared on the television series Huff and starred in the films House of D (2005), Alpha Dog (2007), Star Trek (2009) and its sequel Star Trek Into Darkness (2013), Terminator Salvation (2009), Charlie Bartlett (2007), The Smurfs (2011) and its sequel The Smurfs 2, Fright Night (2011), Like Crazy (2011), Only Lovers Left Alive (2013) and 5 to 7 (2014). Yelchin's role as Jacob Clarke in the Steven Spielberg miniseries Taken was significant in furthering his career as a child actor.