
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”.
Acting (92 movies)

Brother 2
2000

Dead Man's Bluff
2005

12
2007

Horse Julius on the Throne and Three Heroes
2021

Alesha Popovich and Tugarin the Dragon
2004

I, Son of the Working People
1983

The Will
1986

Moscow Parade
1992

Makarov
1993

Наш американский Боря
1992

Третий вариант
2003

Amphitryon
2003

72 Meters
2004

The New Year's Mystery
2010

The Slacker
2007

Dobrinya and the Dragon
2006

Carnival Night 2, or 50 Years Later
2007

Burnt by the Sun 2: Exodus
2010

Burnt by the Sun 2: Citadel
2011

Sons of Bitches
1991

It Doesn't Hurt Me
2006

Patriotic Comedy
1992

The Priest
2009

Three Heroes and the Shamakhan Queen
2010

Operation 'Happy New Year'!
1996

Live and Remember
2008

Mechanical Suite
2002

A Key to the Bedroom
2003

He Didn't Tie His Shoelaces
1997

Duska
2007

Round Dance
1994

Layer
2022

Three Heroes on Distant Shores
2012

The Russian Game
2007

Eternal Homecoming
2013

Three Stories
1997

Неверность
2006

The Crew of a Battle Vehicle
1983

The Miracle
2009

How «Brother 2» Was Filmed
2000

Green Cats
2017

Mother
1990

The Black Monk
2017

The Art of Death
2022

Three Heroes and Julius Caesar
2015

B/W
2015

Three Heroes and the Navel of the World
2023

Obstacle Course
1984

New Russians
2015

Verpackungen
2014

Of Freaks and Men
1998

Three Heroes. Daily Tales
2024

Three Heroes and the King of the Sea
2016

The Initiated
1990

Ilya Muromets and Sparrow the Robber
2007

The Black Veil
1995

Rothschild's Violin
1996

Trotsky
1994

Three Heroes and the Princess of Egypt
2017

2-Assa-2
2008

A Play for a Passenger
1995

Retro Threesome
1998

The Arrival of a Train
1996

The Day Before
2016

Three Heroes: The Heiress to the Throne
2018

To Paris!
2019

Liver, or Story of a Startup
2021

The Foundling
2019

Little People of the Bolshevik Lane, or I Want Beer
1993

A Child by November
1992

Chernov/Chernov
1990

The Belkin Tales: The Shot
1981

Temptation
2007

Take Alive
1982

Russian Riot
2000

Odessa Steamboat
2019

Tevye the Milkman
1985

Alexey Balabanov. Find Your Own and Calm Down
2020

Summerfolk
1995

Horse Julius and Big Horse Racing
2020

Gloss
2007

Ilfipetrov
2013

The Girl and Death
2012

An Essay for Victory Day
1999

Tzadik
2023

Zhvanetsky
2025

My Pet Dragon
2025

American Artichokes
1987

Three Heroes. Daily Tales 2
2025

Dead Mountaineer's Hotel
2027

Apnoe
1992

The Flood
1983
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