Sergey Makovetskiy
Acting • Born 1958-06-13
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”.
Filmography
121 credits
Malva
Movie • 1984
Brother 2
Movie • 2000
Belkin
Dead Man's Bluff
Movie • 2005
Корон
12
Movie • 2007
Juror #1
Horse Julius on the Throne and Three Heroes
Movie • 2021
Knyaz Kievskiy (voice)
Alesha Popovich and Tugarin the Dragon
Movie • 2004
Prince (voice)
I, Son of the Working People
Movie • 1983
The Will
Movie • 1986
Moscow Parade
Movie • 1992
Makarov
Movie • 1993
Наш американский Боря
Movie • 1992
Третий вариант
Movie • 2003
Amphitryon
Movie • 2003
72 Meters
Movie • 2004
Chernenko
The New Year's Mystery
Movie • 2010
The Slacker
Movie • 2007
Semyonych
Dobrinya and the Dragon
Movie • 2006
Prince of Kyiv (voice)
Carnival Night 2, or 50 Years Later
Movie • 2007
Кабачков Сергей Сергеевич (директор ДК)
Burnt by the Sun 2: Exodus
Movie • 2010
captain Lunin
Burnt by the Sun 2: Citadel
Movie • 2011
Lunin
Sons of Bitches
Movie • 1991
Borya Sinyukhaev
It Doesn't Hurt Me
Movie • 2006
Doctor
Patriotic Comedy
Movie • 1992
The Priest
Movie • 2009
отец Александр Ионин
Three Heroes and the Shamakhan Queen
Movie • 2010
Prince of Kiev (voice)
Happy birthday, Your Majesty
Movie • 2006
Edward
Operation 'Happy New Year'!
Movie • 1996
Hopelessly Sick
Live and Remember
Movie • 2008
Mechanical Suite
Movie • 2002
Plyuganovsky
A Key to the Bedroom
Movie • 2003
Ivanitsky
He Didn't Tie His Shoelaces
Movie • 1997
Duska
Movie • 2007
Duska
Round Dance
Movie • 1994
Layer
Movie • 2022
Three Heroes on Distant Shores
Movie • 2012
Knyaz Kievskiy (voice)
The Russian Game
Movie • 2007
Shvokhnev
Eternal Homecoming
Movie • 2013
Three Stories
Movie • 1997
Tikhomirov
Неверность
Movie • 2006
Eduard Kostyga
The Crew of a Battle Vehicle
Movie • 1983
заряжающий Гриша Чумак
The Miracle
Movie • 2009
Kondrashov
Just the Two of Us
Movie • 2001
Vasily
How «Brother 2» Was Filmed
Movie • 2000
self
Green Cats
Movie • 2017
Eduard
Mother
Movie • 1990
The Black Monk
Movie • 2017
Andrey Kovrin
The Art of Death
Movie • 2022
Three Heroes and Julius Caesar
Movie • 2015
Prince Kievskiy (voice)
B/W
Movie • 2015
Алхан
Three Heroes and the Navel of the World
Movie • 2023
Trofim
Movie • 1995
Трофим
Volchok
Movie • 2025
Тарасов
Obstacle Course
Movie • 1984
New Russians
Movie • 2015
("Verpackungen")
Verpackungen
Movie • 2014
Of Freaks and Men
Movie • 1998
Yohan
Three Heroes. Daily Tales
Movie • 2024
Князь
Three Heroes and the King of the Sea
Movie • 2016
Knyaz Kievskiy (voice)
The Initiated
Movie • 1990
Леха
Ilya Muromets and Sparrow the Robber
Movie • 2007
Kniaz' Kievskiy (voice)
The Black Veil
Movie • 1995
Синев Пётр Дмитриевич
Rothschild's Violin
Movie • 1996
Shostakovich
Trotsky
Movie • 1994
Лев Седов, сын Троцкого
Three Heroes and the Princess of Egypt
Movie • 2017
Knyaz Kievskiy (voice)
2-Assa-2
Movie • 2008
Pyotr
A Play for a Passenger
Movie • 1995
Retro Threesome
Movie • 1998
Sergey
The Arrival of a Train
Movie • 1996
The Day Before
Movie • 2016
Павел Евгеньевич Грушевский (министр культуры)
Three Heroes: The Heiress to the Throne
Movie • 2018
the prince, voice acting
To Paris!
Movie • 2019
Stoletov
Liver, or Story of a Startup
Movie • 2021
The Foundling
Movie • 2019
Little People of the Bolshevik Lane, or I Want Beer
Movie • 1993
A Child by November
Movie • 1992
Lyosha (husband Nadya)
Chernov/Chernov
Movie • 1990
Kostya Shlyapin
The Belkin Tales: The Shot
Movie • 1981
Officer
Temptation
Movie • 2007
Take Alive
Movie • 1982
Alexander Proletkin, scout, Odessa
Russian Riot
Movie • 2000
Alexey Shvabrin
Odessa Steamboat
Movie • 2019
Kapitan parokhoda
Tevye the Milkman
Movie • 1985
Мотл
Alexey Balabanov. Find Your Own and Calm Down
Movie • 2020
Self
Summerfolk
Movie • 1995
Сергей Басов
Horse Julius and Big Horse Racing
Movie • 2020
Knyaz Kievskiy (voice)
Gloss
Movie • 2007
Ilfipetrov
Movie • 2013
Narrator / Ilya Ilf (voice)
The Girl and Death
Movie • 2012
Old Nicolai
An Essay for Victory Day
Movie • 1999
Chichevikin
Tzadik
Movie • 2023
Reuben Yankel
Zhvanetsky
Movie • 2025
self
My Pet Dragon
Movie • 2025
Knyaz
American Artichokes
Movie • 1987
Three Heroes. Daily Tales 2
Movie • 2025
(voice)
Dead Mountaineer's Hotel
Movie • 2027
Alek Snevar
Apnoe
Movie • 1992
The Flood
Movie • 1983
Три богатыря и свет клином
Movie • 2025
Liquidation
TV • 2007
Фима Петров (Полужид)
Родина
TV • 2015
Mikhail Volskiy
Знакомство
TV • 2018
Bodyguards
TV • 2023
отец адвоката Александр Акрапович
Isayev
TV • 2009
Леонид Иванович Никандров, литератор
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
TV • 2002
Dr. James Sheppard
Demons
TV • 2014
Павел Дмитриевич Горемыкин
Godunov
TV • 2018
Иван Грозный
Trouble in Store
TV • 2011
Georgiy Berkutov
Life and Fate
TV • 2012
Shtrum
Трасса смерти
TV • 2017
Burnt by the Sun 2
TV • 2011
Лунин - капитан
72 Meters
TV • 2004
Bad Weather
TV • 2018
Ярослав Александрович («Яр-Саныч») Куделин
The Life of Klim Samgin
TV • 1988
Dmitry Samgin - Klim's Brother
Operation Neman
TV • 2023
Соломатин
The Fall of the Empire
TV • 2005
Nesterovskiy
The Terrible
TV • 2020
Ivan Grozniy
Zuleikha Opens Her Eyes
TV • 2020
Wolf Karlovich Leibe
And Quiet Flows the Don
TV • 2015
Пантелей Прокофьевич Мелехов
Wolf
TV • 2020
Уманский
Умельцы
TV • 2014
Купцов
Дорогой Вилли
TV • 2025
Леонид Ильич Брежнев