Sergey Makovetskiy
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”.
125 acting credits
Acting · 125
Three Stories
1997
The Life of Klim Samgin
1988
Bodyguards
2023
Godunov
2018
And Quiet Flows the Don
2015
Demons
2014
Burnt by the Sun 2
2011
The Terrible
2020
The Fall of the Empire
2005
Wolf
2020
Liquidation
2007
Operation Neman
2023
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
2002
Dead Man's Bluff
2005
Trouble in Store
2011
Isayev
2009
12
2007
Life and Fate
2012
Bad Weather
2018
72 Meters
2004
Volchok
2025
Три богатыря и свет клином
2025
Brother 2
2000
Родина
2015
Three Heroes and the Shamakhan Queen
2010
Burnt by the Sun 2: Citadel
2011
Alesha Popovich and Tugarin the Dragon
2004
Zuleikha Opens Her Eyes
2020
Carnival Night 2, or 50 Years Later
2007
Ilya Muromets and Sparrow the Robber
2007
Tzadik
2023
Patriotic Comedy
1992
Three Heroes and Julius Caesar
2015
A Play for a Passenger
1995
Burnt by the Sun 2: Exodus
2010
Of Freaks and Men
1998
Odessa Steamboat
2019
Gloss
2007
It Doesn't Hurt Me
2006
The Day Before
2016
Peter the Great: The Testament
2011
Dead Mountaineer's Hotel
2027
New Russians
2015
Zhvanetsky
2025
An Essay for Victory Day
1999
My Pet Dragon
2025
Alexey Balabanov. Find Your Own and Calm Down
2020
Неверность
2006
Operation 'Happy New Year'!
1996
The Miracle
2009
Retro Threesome
1998
Eternal Homecoming
2013
Dobrinya and the Dragon
2006
Chernov/Chernov
1990
The Will
1986
Temptation
2007
B/W
2015
Трасса смерти
2017
Horse Julius and Big Horse Racing
2020
Horse Julius on the Throne and Three Heroes
2021
Three Heroes and the King of the Sea
2016
The Foundling
2019
Умельцы
2014
Three Heroes on Distant Shores
2012
Makarov
1993
Obstacle Course
1984
To Paris!
2019
Moscow Parade
1992
Three Heroes and the Princess of Egypt
2017
Tevye the Milkman
1985
The Girl and Death
2012
Three Heroes. Daily Tales
2024
The Arrival of a Train
1996
Mother
1990
The Belkin Tales: The Shot
1981
Trotsky
1994
The Initiated
1990
Dear Willie
2025
Summerfolk
1995
The Black Veil
1995
Little People of the Bolshevik Lane, or I Want Beer
1993
Russian Riot
2000
Three Heroes. Daily Tales 2
2025
Третий вариант
2003
Sons of Bitches
1991
Three Heroes: The Heiress to the Throne
2018
2-Assa-2
2008
Round Dance
1994
Ilfipetrov
2013
Mechanical Suite
2002
Three Heroes and the Navel of the World
2023
The Priest
2009
A Child by November
1992
The Crew of a Battle Vehicle
1983
72 Meters
2004
Trivial Of My Life
—
The Slacker
2007
The Black Monk
2017
Наш американский Боря
1992
Знакомство
2018
Green Cats
2017
American Artichokes
1987
Happy birthday, Your Majesty
2006
The Russian Game
2007
Liver, or Story of a Startup
2021
Take Alive
1982
How «Brother 2» Was Filmed
2000
Trofim
1995
Layer
2022
Amphitryon
2003
A Key to the Bedroom
2003
Verpackungen
2014
The New Year's Mystery
2010
Live and Remember
2008
Malva
1984
Duska
2007
The Art of Death
2022
Apnoe
1992
The Brest Peace
1989
Just the Two of Us
2001
Rothschild's Violin
1996
I, Son of the Working People
1983
Три богатыря. Ни дня без подвига
2024
He Didn't Tie His Shoelaces
1997
The Flood
1983