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”.
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Movies (102)
Hotel «At the Dead Mountaineer»
2027 · Alek Snevar
Three Heroes. Daily Tales 3
2026 · Knyaz (voice)
Three Heroes and the End of the World
2025 · Knyaz (voice)
Volchok
2025 · Tarasov
My Pet Dragon
2025 · Knyaz
Three Heroes. Daily Tales 2
2025 · Knyaz (voice)
Zhvanetsky
2025 · self
Three Heroes. Daily Tales
2024 · Knyaz (voice)
Three Heroes and the Navel of the World
2023 · Knyaz of Kiev (voice)
Tzadik
2023 · Reuben Yankel
The Art of Death
2022
Layer
2022
Horse Julius on the Throne and Three Heroes
2021 · Knyaz of Kiev (voice)
Liver, or Story of a Startup
2021
Horse Julius and Big Horse Racing
2020 · Knyaz of Kiev (voice)
Alexey Balabanov. Find Your Own and Calm Down
2020 · Self
Odessa Steamboat
2019 · Kapitan parokhoda
The Foundling
2019 · Shkurin
To Paris!
2019 · Stoletov
Three Heroes: The Heiress to the Throne
2018 · Knyaz of Kiev (voice)
Uncle Vanya From Moscow’s Vakhtangov Theater
2018 · Ivan Petrovich Voynitsky
Three Heroes and the Princess of Egypt
2017 · Knyaz of Kiev (voice)
Green Cats
2017 · Eduard
The Black Monk
2017 · Andrey Kovrin
Three Heroes and the King of the Sea
2016 · Knyaz of Kiev (voice)
The Day Before
2016 · Павел Евгеньевич Грушевский (министр культуры)
New Russians
2015 · ("Verpackungen")
B/W
2015 · Алхан
Three Heroes and Julius Caesar
2015 · Knyaz of Kiev (voice)
Verpackungen
2014
Ilfipetrov
2013 · Narrator / Ilya Ilf (voice)
Eternal Homecoming
2013
Three Heroes on Distant Shores
2012 · Knyaz of Kiev (voice)
The Girl and Death
2012 · Old Nicolai
Burnt by the Sun 2: Citadel
2011 · Lunin
Three Heroes and the Shamakhan Queen
2010 · Knyaz of Kiev (voice)
The New Year's Mystery
2010
Burnt by the Sun 2: Exodus
2010 · captain Lunin
The Miracle
2009 · Kondrashov
The Priest
2009 · отец Александр Ионин
2-Assa-2
2008 · Pyotr
Live and Remember
2008
Ilya Muromets and Nightingale the Robber
2007 · Knyaz of Kiev (voice)
Duska
2007 · Duska
The Russian Game
2007 · Shvokhnev
Gloss
2007
Temptation
2007
12
2007 · juror #1
The Slacker
2007 · Semyonych
Carnival Night 2, or 50 Years Later
2007 · Кабачков Сергей Сергеевич (директор ДК)
It Doesn't Hurt Me
2006 · Doctor
Happy birthday, Your Majesty
2006 · Edward
Dobrynya Nikitich and Gorynych the Dragon
2006 · Knyaz of Kiev (voice)
Неверность
2006 · Eduard Kostyga
Dead Man's Bluff
2005 · Корон
Alyosha Popovich and Tugarin the Serpent
2004 · Knyaz of Kiev (voice)
72 Meters
2004 · Chernenko
Третий вариант
2003
A Key to the Bedroom
2003 · Ivanitsky
Amphitryon
2003
Mechanical Suite
2002 · Plyuganovsky
Just the Two of Us
2001 · Vasily
Brother 2
2000 · Belkin
How «Brother 2» Was Filmed
2000 · self
Russian Riot
2000 · Alexey Shvabrin
An Essay for Victory Day
1999 · Chichevikin
Of Freaks and Men
1998 · Yohan
Retro Threesome
1998 · Sergey
He Didn't Tie His Shoelaces
1997
Three Stories
1997 · Tikhomirov
Rothschild's Violin
1996 · Shostakovich
The Arrival of a Train
1996
Operation 'Happy New Year'!
1996 · Hopelessly Sick
Summerfolk
1995 · Сергей Басов
Trofim
1995 · Трофим
The Black Veil
1995 · Синев Пётр Дмитриевич
A Play for a Passenger
1995
Round Dance
1994
Trotsky
1994 · Лев Седов, сын Троцкого
Little People of the Bolshevik Lane, or I Want Beer
1993
Makarov
1993
A Child by November
1992 · Lyosha (husband Nadya)
Moscow Parade
1992
Apnoe
1992
Наш американский Боря
1992
Patriotic Comedy
1992
Sons of Bitches
1991 · Borya Sinyukhaev
Mother
1990
Chernov/Chernov
1990 · Kostya Shlyapin
The Initiated
1990 · Леха
The Brest Peace
1989 · Trotsky
American Artichokes
1987
The Will
1986
Tevye the Milkman
1985 · Мотл
Malva
1984
Obstacle Course
1984
I, Son of the Working People
1983
The Crew of a Battle Vehicle
1983 · заряжающий Гриша Чумак
The Flood
1983
Take Alive
1982 · Alexander Proletkin, scout, Odessa
The Belkin Tales: The Shot
1981 · Officer
Trivial Of My Life
· Dr. Belyaev
TV shows (25)
Dear Willie
2025 · Леонид Ильич Брежнев
Три богатыря. Ни дня без подвига
2024 · Knyaz (voice)
Bodyguards
2023 · отец адвоката Александр Акрапович
Operation Neman
2023 · Соломатин
Wolf
2020 · Уманский
The Terrible
2020 · Ivan Grozniy
Zuleikha Opens Her Eyes
2020 · Wolf Karlovich Leibe
Bad Weather
2018 · Ярослав Александрович («Яр-Саныч») Куделин
Godunov
2018 · Иван Грозный
Знакомство
2018
Трасса смерти
2017
And Quiet Flows the Don
2015 · Пантелей Прокофьевич Мелехов
Родина
2015 · Mikhail Volskiy
Умельцы
2014 · Купцов
Demons
2014 · Павел Дмитриевич Горемыкин
Life and Fate
2012 · Shtrum
Burnt by the Sun 2
2011 · Лунин - капитан
Trouble in Store
2011 · Georgiy Berkutov
Peter the Great: The Testament
2011
Isayev
2009 · Леонид Иванович Никандров, литератор
Liquidation
2007 · Фима Петров (Полужид)
The Fall of the Empire
2005 · Nesterovskiy
72 Meters
2004
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
2002 · Dr. James Sheppard
The Life of Klim Samgin
1988 · Dmitry Samgin - Klim's Brother