Are the Characters on Chernobyl Based on Real People?
HBO's Chernobyl Is Based on the Lives of These Real People
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Emily Watson plays Ulyana Khomyuk, a Soviet nuclear physicist who's trying to get to the bottom of what happened at Chernobyl. According to The Daily Telegraph, this character is a "fictional amalgam of Soviet scientists whose names we don't know, who risked their freedom and reputations to demand the truth be told."