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”.
99 movies · 25 shows
Three Heroes. Daily Tales 3
2026·0.0
Три богатыря и свет клином
2025·2.8
Volchok
2025·6.8
My Pet Dragon
2025·4.5
Three Heroes. Daily Tales 2
2025·4.2
Zhvanetsky
2025·10.0
Three Heroes. Daily Tales
2024·7.2
Three Heroes and the Navel of the World
2023·6.3
Tzadik
2023·7.3
The Art of Death
2022·0.0
Layer
2022·0.0
Horse Julius on the Throne and Three Heroes
2021·5.5
Liver, or Story of a Startup
2021·6.0
Horse Julius and Big Horse Racing
2020·5.0
Alexey Balabanov. Find Your Own and Calm Down
2020·5.0
Odessa Steamboat
2019·4.7
The Foundling
2019·0.0
To Paris!
2019·2.1
Three Heroes: The Heiress to the Throne
2018·6.8
Three Heroes and the Princess of Egypt
2017·5.8
Green Cats
2017·5.2
The Black Monk
2017·0.0
Three Heroes and the King of the Sea
2016·5.9
The Day Before
2016·4.5
New Russians
2015·6.3
B/W
2015·5.2
Three Heroes and Julius Caesar
2015·6.4
Verpackungen
2014·8.0
Ilfipetrov
2013·7.0
Eternal Homecoming
2013·5.1
Three Heroes on Distant Shores
2012·5.9
The Girl and Death
2012·4.5
Burnt by the Sun 2: Citadel
2011·4.2
Three Heroes and the Shamakhan Queen
2010·6.2
The New Year's Mystery
2010·7.0
Burnt by the Sun 2: Exodus
2010·4.7
The Miracle
2009·4.8
The Priest
2009·6.1
2-Assa-2
2008·4.1
Live and Remember
2008·5.1
Ilya Muromets and Sparrow the Robber
2007·6.8
Duska
2007·5.1
The Russian Game
2007·6.2
Gloss
2007·5.2
Temptation
2007·0.0
12
2007·6.6
The Slacker
2007·6.4
Carnival Night 2, or 50 Years Later
2007·2.0
It Doesn't Hurt Me
2006·5.3
Happy birthday, Your Majesty
2006·1.0
Dobrinya and the Dragon
2006·7.0
Неверность
2006·0.0
Dead Man's Bluff
2005·6.7
Alesha Popovich and Tugarin the Dragon
2004·6.8
72 Meters
2004·6.1
Третий вариант
2003·10.0
A Key to the Bedroom
2003·3.2
Amphitryon
2003·0.0
Mechanical Suite
2002·4.8
Just the Two of Us
2001·0.0
Brother 2
2000·7.1
How «Brother 2» Was Filmed
2000·0.0
Russian Riot
2000·3.9
An Essay for Victory Day
1999·6.2
Of Freaks and Men
1998·6.4
Retro Threesome
1998·8.5
He Didn't Tie His Shoelaces
1997·0.0
Three Stories
1997·6.2
Rothschild's Violin
1996·7.0
The Arrival of a Train
1996·5.5
Operation 'Happy New Year'!
1996·5.4
Summerfolk
1995·8.0
Trofim
1995·5.5
The Black Veil
1995·9.0
A Play for a Passenger
1995·5.6
Round Dance
1994·7.0
Trotsky
1994·6.0
Little People of the Bolshevik Lane, or I Want Beer
1993·10.0
Makarov
1993·5.0
A Child by November
1992·8.0
Moscow Parade
1992·2.7
Apnoe
1992·7.0
Наш американский Боря
1992·10.0
Patriotic Comedy
1992·4.8
Sons of Bitches
1991·4.4
Mother
1990·4.6
Chernov/Chernov
1990·6.5
The Initiated
1990·4.6
The Brest Peace
1989·0.0
American Artichokes
1987·8.0
The Will
1986·7.0
Tevye the Milkman
1985·0.0
Malva
1984·0.0
Obstacle Course
1984·4.3
I, Son of the Working People
1983·7.0
The Crew of a Battle Vehicle
1983·5.5
The Flood
1983·0.0
Take Alive
1982·0.0
The Belkin Tales: The Shot
1981·0.0