Who plays Henk Rogers in the 2023 film Tetris?

Taron Egerton plays Henk Rogers in the 2023 film Tetris.

Egerton portrays the Dutch video-game designer and publisher who encounters Tetris at the 1988 Consumer Electronics Show. Rogers becomes determined to secure international rights for the game, especially for Nintendo's Game Boy, and travels to the Soviet Union to negotiate with its creator Alexey Pajitnov and the state agency ELORG.

The film is a dramatized biographical thriller rather than a literal documentary. It compresses negotiations, changes some supporting characters, and heightens the danger of the Cold War setting. Rogers and Pajitnov were involved in reviewing the script, but both acknowledged that several events were reshaped for dramatic effect.

The cast can cause confusion because Anthony Boyle, Toby Jones, and Nikita Efremov also appear in major roles. Egerton is the lead actor playing Rogers; Efremov portrays Pajitnov, while Boyle and Jones play figures involved in the licensing struggle.