Dmitry Chepovetsky
Dmitry Chepovetsky is a Jewish Gemini Award-nominated actor based in Canada, best known for his role of Bob Melnikov in the TV series ReGenesis.
Early life and education
Chepovetsky was born in Lvov, 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
Film
Television
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
| 1995 | Hawkeye | British soldier | "Amnesty" |
| 1995 | Marshall | David Brokerman | "Little Odessa" |
| 1995 | The X-Files | Lt. Richard Harper | "Død Kalm" |
| 1996 | Sweet Dreams | Ben | TV movie |
| 1996 | Madison | Claude | "No Sell Out" |
| 1996 | Strange Luck | "Account Manager" | Blinded by the Sun |
| 1996 | The X-Files | "Young Bill Mulder" | Apocrypha |
| 1998 | Cold Squad | Keith Harmon | "Marcey Bennett" |
| 1998 | Max Q | Kaysat controller | TV movie |
| 1998 | ' | Sergei | "Evil Eye" |
| 1998 | The X-Files | Supervisor | "Folie a Deux" |
| 1999 | Atomic Train | NEST Man #3 | Miniseries |
| 1999 | You, Me and the Kids | Director | Hollywood Kids" |
| 1999 | The Net | Cal Hamilton | "Y2K: Total System Failure" |
| 1999 | The Sentinel | Rick Feldman | "Murder 101" |
| 1999 | Nothing Too Good for a Cowboy | Deaver | The Shape of Things to Come |
| 2000 | Higher Ground | Jeff Wilton | 6 episodes |
| 2000 | Hollywood Off-Ramp | "TKO" | |
| 2000 | So Weird | Derrick Larch | "Twin" |
| 2000 | Stargate SG-1 | Boris | "Small Victories" |
| 2001 | My Husband’s Double aka The Familiar Stranger | Rob Dusak | TV movie |
| 2001 | Dark Water | Spencer | TV movie |
| 2001 | Blue Murder | Graeme Cudmore | "Dr. Tara" |
| 2002 | ' | Fatelov | TV movie |
| 2003 | Spinning Boris | Courtyard guard | TV Movie |
| 2003 | Haven | TV Movie | |
| 2004 | Sergei | "The Body Shop" | |
| 2004–2008 | ReGenesis | 49 episodes | Bob Melnikov |
| 2005 | Stargate SG-1 | Russian soldier | "Full Alert" |
| 2008, 2010, 2019 & 2020 | Murdoch Mysteries | Nikola Tesla | "Power", "The Tesla Effect", "Murdoch and the Undetectable Man" & "Staring Blindly into the Future" |
| 2010 | Psych | James | "Death Is in the Air" |
| 2010 | Caprica | Transvestite Cabaret Host | "Ghosts in the Machine" |
| 2011 | The Listener | Yuri Volkov | "The Brothers Volkov" |
| 2011 | Good Dog | Sales Clerk | "Gay Sopranos" |
| 2011 | The Kennedys | Kennedy's Translator | "On the Brink of War" |
| 2011 | CHAOS | Albert Boskiv | "Eaten by Wolves" |
| 2011 | Alphas | Gil | "A Short Time in Paradise" |
| 2011 | Supernatural'' | Nikolai Lishin | "The Mentalists" |
Theater
| Year | Show | Role | Theater | Notes |
| 1995 | FETCH! | Men's Fest '95; Arts Club Revue '96, Liesl Lafferty | ||
| 1996 | Orphan Muses | Brother Luc | Firehall Theatre, Burnaby; Touchstone Theatre | |
| 1996 | Basically Good Kids | Carousel Theatre, Vancouver | ||
| 1997 | ||||
| 1999 | El Salvador | Skee | Vancouver East Cultural Centre | |
| 2000 | As Bees in Honey Drown | Kaden | Vancouver East Cultural Centre, Western Theatre Conspiracy Procution | |
| 2000 | Bodyblood | Vancouver East Cultural Centre | collaborated as writer/creator | |
| 2000 | The Festivities | Kuzma Nikolayevich Heerin | Rushin Productions | |
| 2001 | Unidentified Human Remains… | David | Vancouver Fringe 2001 | |
| 2002 | Slip Knot | Jonathan | Factory Theatre, Toronto | |
| 2002 | The Danish Play, Extra Space | Michael | Tarragon Theatre, Toronto; Nightwood Theatre Procution | |
| 2003 | Remnants | Joseph | Tarragon Theatre, Toronto | |
| 2003 | Top Gun! The Musical | Maverick | Factory Theatre, Toronto; NY Musical Theatre Festiva | |
| 2004 | The Trials of John Demjanjuk: A Holocaust Cabaret | Ivan the Terrible | Theatre Asylum, Studio Theatre, Harbourfront Centre, Toronto | |
| 2006 | The Catering Queen | Caterer | Tarragon Theatre, Toronto | |
| 2007 | Blind Submission: Reliving the Exquisite Corpse | Chaos Collective, The Theatre Centre, Toronto | ||
| 2007 | Dish | Factory Theatre, Toronto | ||
| 2008 | Beyond Mozambique | Tomas | Factory Theatre, Toronto | |
| 2008 | Room to Panic'' | The Annex at La MaMa ETC, New York |