Sergey Makovetskiy
Biography
Sergei Vasilevich Makovetsky was born on June 13, 1958, in Darnitsa, a suburb of Kiev, Ukraine. Though he excelled at swimming and water polo and had aspirations to join the Soviet Olympic Team, his single mother encouraged him to pursue a more creative line of expression. When his application to study acting at Kiev Theatrical College was denied, Makovetsky moved behind the scenes working as a set decorator in Kiev before relocating to Moscow. Rejection from several Moscow theater schools and acting companies was bolstered by a more welcome rejection from the Soviet Army after Makovetsky gave a performance of imaginary illness symptoms so convincing that Army medical examiners excused him from military service. Accepted to the Shchukin Theatrical School at the Vakhtangov Theatre in Moscow, Makovsky graduated in 1980 and became a member of Vakhtangov Theatre’s company. For nearly three decades Sergei Makovetsky has earned critical praise, audience loyalty, and multiple awards (including the title of People’s Artist of Russia) in a variety of stage roles highlighted by a 9 season run as the title character in Moliere’s “Amphitrion” and as Trigorin in Chekhov’s “The Seagull”. His film work includes the eponymous role in Dutch director Jos Stelling’s “Duska” and an appearance alongside Nikita Mikhalkov in Aleksei Balabanov’s 2005 violent black comedy “Blind Man’s Bluff”.
Movies (95)
Dead Mountaineer's Hotel
2027
Три богатыря и свет клином
2025
Volchok
2025
My Pet Dragon
2025
Three Heroes. Daily Tales 2
2025
Zhvanetsky
2025
Three Heroes. Daily Tales
2024
Three Heroes and the Navel of the World
2023
Tzadik
2023
The Art of Death
2022
Layer
2022
Horse Julius on the Throne and Three Heroes
2021
Liver, or Story of a Startup
2021
Horse Julius and Big Horse Racing
2020
Alexey Balabanov. Find Your Own and Calm Down
2020
Odessa Steamboat
2019
The Foundling
2019
To Paris!
2019
Three Heroes: The Heiress to the Throne
2018
Three Heroes and the Princess of Egypt
2017
Green Cats
2017
The Black Monk
2017
Three Heroes and the King of the Sea
2016
The Day Before
2016
New Russians
2015
B/W
2015
Three Heroes and Julius Caesar
2015
Verpackungen
2014
Ilfipetrov
2013
Eternal Homecoming
2013
Three Heroes on Distant Shores
2012
The Girl and Death
2012
Burnt by the Sun 2: Citadel
2011
Three Heroes and the Shamakhan Queen
2010
The New Year's Mystery
2010
Burnt by the Sun 2: Exodus
2010
The Miracle
2009
The Priest
2009
2-Assa-2
2008
Live and Remember
2008
Ilya Muromets and Sparrow the Robber
2007
Duska
2007
The Russian Game
2007
Gloss
2007
Temptation
2007
12
2007
The Slacker
2007
Carnival Night 2, or 50 Years Later
2007
It Doesn't Hurt Me
2006
Dobrinya and the Dragon
2006
Неверность
2006
Dead Man's Bluff
2005
Alesha Popovich and Tugarin the Dragon
2004
72 Meters
2004
Третий вариант
2003
A Key to the Bedroom
2003
Amphitryon
2003
Mechanical Suite
2002
Brother 2
2000
How «Brother 2» Was Filmed
2000
Russian Riot
2000
An Essay for Victory Day
1999
Of Freaks and Men
1998
Retro Threesome
1998
He Didn't Tie His Shoelaces
1997
Three Stories
1997
Rothschild's Violin
1996
The Arrival of a Train
1996
Operation 'Happy New Year'!
1996
Summerfolk
1995
The Black Veil
1995
A Play for a Passenger
1995
Round Dance
1994
Trotsky
1994
Little People of the Bolshevik Lane, or I Want Beer
1993
Makarov
1993
A Child by November
1992
Moscow Parade
1992
Apnoe
1992
Наш американский Боря
1992
Patriotic Comedy
1992
Sons of Bitches
1991
Mother
1990
Chernov/Chernov
1990
The Initiated
1990
American Artichokes
1987
The Will
1986
Tevye the Milkman
1985
Obstacle Course
1984
I, Son of the Working People
1983
The Crew of a Battle Vehicle
1983
The Flood
1983
Take Alive
1982
The Belkin Tales: The Shot
1981
Trivial Of My Life
TV Shows (25)
Dear Willie
2025
Три богатыря. Ни дня без подвига
2024
Bodyguards
2023
Operation Neman
2023
Wolf
2020
The Terrible
2020
Zuleikha Opens Her Eyes
2020
Bad Weather
2018
Godunov
2018
Знакомство
2018
Трасса смерти
2017
And Quiet Flows the Don
2015
Родина
2015
Умельцы
2014
Demons
2014
Life and Fate
2012
Burnt by the Sun 2
2011
Trouble in Store
2011
Peter the Great: The Testament
2011
Isayev
2009
Liquidation
2007
The Fall of the Empire
2005
72 Meters
2004
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
2002
The Life of Klim Samgin
1988