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”.
Movie | Бесы | следователь Горемыкин | 2025 |
Movie | Fist Fight | Unknown | 2025 |
Movie | Tzadik | Reuben Yankel | 2023-02-16 |
Series | Operation Neman | Unknown | 2023-05-01 |
Movie | Three Heroes and the Navel of the Earth | Unknown | 2023-12-28 |
Series | Bodyguards | Unknown | 2023-08-21 |
Movie | Layer | Unknown | 2022-04-14 |
Movie | The Art of Death | Unknown | 2022-09-15 |
Movie | Liver, or Story of a Startup | Unknown | 2021-03-31 |
Movie | Horse Julius on the throne and Three Heroes | Knyaz Kievskiy (voice) | 2021-12-30 |
Series | Zuleikha Opens Her Eyes | Wolf Karlovich Leibe | 2020-04-13 |
Movie | Alexey Balabanov. Find Your Own and Calm Down | Self | 2020-06-07 |
Series | Волк | Unknown | 2020-12-07 |
Series | The Terrible | Ivan Grozniy | 2020-11-24 |
Movie | Horse Julius And Big Horse Racing | Knyaz Kievskiy (voice) | 2020-12-31 |
Movie | To Paris! | Stoletov | 2019-05-09 |
Movie | Odessa Steamboat | Kapitan parokhoda | 2019-12-24 |
Movie | The Foundling | Unknown | 2019-09-26 |
Series | Знакомство | Unknown | 2018-06-12 |
Series | Godunov | Иван Грозный | 2018-11-05 |
Movie | Three Heroes: The Heiress to the Throne | the prince, voice acting | 2018-12-27 |
Series | Bad Weather | Ярослав Александрович («Яр-Саныч») Куделин | 2018-11-12 |
Series | Трасса смерти | Unknown | 2017-04-17 |
Movie | The Black Monk | Andrey Kovrin | 2017-02-20 |
Movie | Green Cats | Eduard | 2017-11-20 |
Movie | Three Heroes and the Princess of Egypt | Knyaz Kievskiy (voice) | 2017-12-28 |
Movie | The Day Before | Unknown | 2016-01-15 |
Movie | Three Heroes and the King of the Sea | Knyaz Kievskiy (voice) | 2016-12-24 |
Series | Родина | Mikhail Volskiy | 2015-03-16 |
Movie | B/W | Алхан | 2015-03-19 |
Series | Homeland | Unknown | 2015-03-16 |
Series | And Quiet Flows the Don | Пантелей Прокофьевич Мелехов | 2015-10-29 |
Movie | New Russians | ("Verpackungen") | 2015-06-04 |
Movie | Three Heroes and Julius Caesar | Prince Kievskiy (voice) | 2015-10-16 |
Series | Demons | Павел Дмитриевич Горемыкин | 2014-05-25 |
Movie | Verpackungen | Unknown | 2014-06-07 |
Movie | Eternal Homecoming | Unknown | 2013-01-02 |
Movie | Ilfipetrov | Narrator / Ilya Ilf (voice) | 2013-09-12 |
Series | Life and Fate | Shtrum | 2012-10-14 |
Movie | The Girl and Death | Old Nicolai | 2012-11-15 |
Movie | Three Heroes on Distant Shores | Knyaz Kievskiy (voice) | 2012-12-27 |
Movie | Burnt by the Sun 2: Citadel | Lunin | 2011-05-05 |
Movie | The Best Movie 3-DE | Unknown | 2011-01-19 |
Series | Trouble in Store | Georgiy Berkutov | 2011-10-31 |
Series | Burnt by the Sun 2 | Unknown | 2011-12-05 |
Movie | Burnt by the Sun 2: Exodus | SMERSH officer | 2010-04-22 |
Movie | Three Heroes and the Shamakhan Queen | Prince of Kiev (voice) | 2010-12-29 |
Movie | Novogodniy Detektiv | Unknown | 2010-12-12 |
Movie | The Miracle | Kondrashov | 2009-10-09 |
Movie | The Priest | Otets Aleksandr | 2009-04-04 |
Series | Isayev | Леонид Иванович Никандров, литератор | 2009-10-11 |
Movie | 2-Assa-2 | Pyotr | 2008-09-04 |
Movie | Live and Remember | Unknown | 2008-06-26 |
Series | 12 | Unknown | 2008-11-04 |
Movie | 12 | Juror #1 | 2007-06-06 |
Movie | Temptation | Unknown | 2007-08-16 |
Movie | Gloss | Unknown | 2007-06-03 |
Movie | The Slacker | Semyonych | 2007-04-26 |
Movie | Duska | Duska | 2007-10-04 |
Movie | The Russian Game | Shvokhnev | 2007-10-04 |
Movie | Ilya and the Robber | Kniaz' Kievskiy (voice) | 2007-12-28 |
Series | Liquidation | Фима Петров (Полужид) | 2007-10-21 |
Movie | Неверность | Unknown | 2006-01-01 |
Movie | Carnival Night 2, or 50 Years Later | Unknown | 2006-06-06 |
Movie | Nikitich and The Dragon | Prince of Kyiv (voice) | 2006-03-16 |
Movie | Happy birthday, Your Majesty | Edward | 2006-06-06 |
Movie | It Doesn't Hurt Me | Doctor | 2006-06-08 |
Series | The Fall of the Empire | Nesterovskiy | 2005-04-04 |
Movie | Dead Man's Bluff | Koron | 2005-05-26 |
Movie | 72 Meters | Chernenko | 2004-02-12 |
Series | 72 Meters | Unknown | 2004-10-04 |
Movie | Alesha Popovich and Tugarin the Dragon | Prince (voice) | 2004-12-23 |
Movie | Amphitryon | Unknown | 2003-01-01 |
Movie | Третий вариант | Unknown | 2003-10-22 |
Movie | A Key to the Bedroom | Ivanitsky | 2003-04-18 |
Movie | Mechanical Suite | Plyuganovsky | 2002-01-17 |
Series | The Murder of Roger Ackroyd | Dr. James Sheppard | 2002-11-06 |
Movie | Just the Two of Us | Vasily | 2001-05-14 |
Movie | How «Brother 2» Was Filmed | self | 2000-05-07 |
Movie | Russian Riot | Alexey Shvabrin | 2000-04-28 |
Movie | Brother 2 | Belkin | 2000-05-11 |
Movie | An Essay on Victory Day | Chichevikin | 1999-01-21 |
Movie | Retro Threesome | Sergey | 1998-05-09 |
Movie | Of Freaks and Men | Yohan | 1998-05-20 |
Movie | Three Stories | Tikhomirov | 1997-03-13 |
Movie | He Didn't Tie His Shoelaces | Unknown | 1997-06-14 |
Movie | Operation 'Happy New Year'! | Hopelessly Sick | 1996-01-01 |
Movie | Rothschild's Violin | Shostakovich | 1996-12-18 |
Movie | The Arrival of a Train | Unknown | 1996-10-08 |
Movie | The Black Veil | Синев Пётр Дмитриевич | 1995-03-02 |
Movie | A Play for a Passenger | Unknown | 1995-02-09 |
Movie | Summerfolk | Сергей Басов | 1995-10-20 |
Movie | Trofim | Трофим | 1995-10-07 |
Movie | Trotsky | Лев Седов, сын Троцкого | 1994-01-01 |
Movie | Хоровод | Unknown | 1994-03-09 |
Movie | Makarov | Unknown | 1993-02-28 |
Movie | Little People of the Bolshevik Lane, or I Want Beer | Unknown | 1993-04-14 |
Movie | Patriotic Comedy | Unknown | 1992-01-01 |
Movie | Наш американский Боря | Unknown | 1992-01-01 |
Movie | Moscow Parade | Unknown | 1992-09-17 |
Movie | A Child by November | Lyosha (husband Nadya) | 1992-10-30 |
Movie | Sons of Bitches | Borya Sinyukhaev | 1991-07-08 |
Movie | The Initiated | Леха | 1990-02-17 |
Movie | Mother | Unknown | 1990-12-01 |
Movie | Чернов | Unknown | 1990-10-06 |
Series | The Life of Klim Samgin | Dmitry Samgin - Klim's Brother | 1988-03-28 |
Movie | The Will | Unknown | 1986-05-08 |
Movie | Tevye the Milkman | Мотл | 1985-12-31 |
Movie | Obstacle Course | Unknown | 1984-06-01 |
Movie | Malva | Unknown | 1984-09-01 |
Movie | Экипаж машины боевой | Гриша Чумак, заряжающий | 1983-04-29 |
Movie | Я, сын трудового народа | Unknown | 1983-11-08 |
Movie | Take Alive | Alexander Proletkin, scout, Odessa | 1982-01-01 |
Movie | Tales of Belkin. Shot | Officer | 1981-08-17 |
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