Dmitry Chepovetsky

Dmitry Chepovetsky (born 1970) is a Ukrainian Gemini Award-nominated actor based in Canada, best known for his role of Bob Melnikov in the T.V. series ReGenesis.

Early life and education

Chepovetsky was born in Lviv, Soviet Union. His family left in 1976 along with waves of other Jewish emigrants bound for Israel. Along the way, his family experienced an eight-month stopover in Italy while awaiting their travel visas. They then decided to change course for Regina, where his uncle lived. Since then, Chepovetsky has been splitting his time between Vancouver and Toronto, where he’s been living for the past eight years, close to his older brother and nieces.

Career

Chepovetsky acted in his first musical at the age of 14 while in high school in Regina, then began acting in local community. Thinking briefly about a different career path, he was accepted to the University of Toronto on a scholarship for its commerce program. But after three weeks he dropped out to work as an elf at Casa Loma and then worked numerous jobs until he got to Ryerson Theatre School. He also trained with David Rotenberg and Carol Rosenfeld, as well as Kate Hale at the Foursight Theatre. Aside from his numerous acting credits, among them stints on critically acclaimed TV shows and feature films such as The X-Files, Lucky Number Slevin and Stargate, Chepovetsky is likely best known for his recurring role on ReGenesis as Bob Melnikov, the show’s lead biochemist and a person with Asperger syndrome. The role has garnered him two Gemini Award nominations for best actor in a dramatic series; once in 2005 and another in 2007. The show has reached 120 countries in over 18 languages.

Personal life

Chepovetsky enjoys photography, music, movies, theatre and writing.

Filmography

• As I Was Saying
• Forget Me Not (1989)
• Hotel
• It’s Me Margaret
• Listen Missy
• Making Babies
• Nothing Too Good for a Cowboy
• Serving in Silence
• Spot (1996)
• Sweet Blue Murder
• The Addams Family
• The Meek Shall Inherit the Earth
• The Yeltsin Project
• When I Grow Up
• You, Me and the Kids

Television

Theater

• Jacques Brel Is Alive And Well… at Prairie Theatre Exchange
• Major Barbara at Neptune Theatre
• Oedipus
• Our Country's Good
• Pericles
• Picasso at the Lapin Agile as Picasso at Manitoba Theatre Centre
• Pvt. Wars
• Running - Three Short Plays
• Stiletto
• The Rocky Horror Picture Show as Brad at Kaleidoscope
• The Smoking Man
• The Suicide
• The World's Greatest Guy
• Welcome to the Moon
• Zadie's Shoes at Alberta Theatre Projects

Awards and nominations

External links

• Dmitry Chepovetsky at the Internet Movie Database