Sergey Makovetskiy

Born: 1958-06-13 in Kiev, Ukrainian SSR, USSR [now Ukraine]

Known For: Acting

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

2027

Dead Mountaineer's Hotel as Alek Snevar

2026

Three Heroes. Daily Tales 3 as Knyaz (voice)

2025

Dear Willie as Леонид Ильич Брежнев
My Pet Dragon as Knyaz
Volchok as Tarasov
Three Bogatyrs and the Light with a Wedge as Knyaz (voice)
Zhvanetsky as self
Three Heroes. Daily Tales 2 as Knyaz (voice)

2024

Три богатыря. Ни дня без подвига as Knyaz (voice)
Three Heroes. Daily Tales as Knyaz (voice)

2023

Bodyguards as отец адвоката Александр Акрапович
Operation Neman as Соломатин
Tzadik as Reuben Yankel
Three Heroes and the Navel of the World as Knyaz of Kiev (voice)

2022

2021

Horse Julius on the Throne and Three Heroes as Knyaz of Kiev (voice)
Liver, or Story of a Startup

2020

The Terrible as Ivan Grozniy
Wolf as Уманский
Zuleikha Opens Her Eyes as Wolf Karlovich Leibe
Horse Julius and Big Horse Racing as Knyaz of Kiev (voice)
Alexey Balabanov. Find Your Own and Calm Down as Self

2019

To Paris! as Stoletov
Odessa Steamboat as Kapitan parokhoda
The Foundling

2018

Godunov as Иван Грозный
Bad Weather as Ярослав Александрович («Яр-Саныч») Куделин
Three Heroes: The Heiress to the Throne as Knyaz of Kiev (voice)
Знакомство
Uncle Vanya From Moscow’s Vakhtangov Theater as Ivan Petrovich Voynitsky

2017

Трасса смерти
Three Heroes and the Princess of Egypt as Knyaz of Kiev (voice)
Green Cats as Eduard
The Black Monk as Andrey Kovrin

2016

Three Heroes and the King of the Sea as Knyaz of Kiev (voice)
The Day Before as Павел Евгеньевич Грушевский (министр культуры)

2015

And Quiet Flows the Don as Пантелей Прокофьевич Мелехов
Three Heroes and Julius Caesar as Knyaz of Kiev (voice)
Родина as Mikhail Volskiy
New Russians as ("Verpackungen")
B/W as Алхан

2014

Demons as Павел Дмитриевич Горемыкин
Умельцы as Купцов
Verpackungen

2013

Eternal Homecoming
Ilfipetrov as Narrator / Ilya Ilf (voice)

2009

Isayev as Леонид Иванович Никандров, литератор
The Priest as отец Александр Ионин
The Miracle as Kondrashov

2008

Live and Remember
2-Assa-2 as Pyotr

2007

Liquidation as Фима Петров (Полужид)
12 as juror #1
The Russian Game as Shvokhnev
Temptation
Duska as Duska
Ilya Muromets and Sparrow the Robber as Knyaz of Kiev (voice)
Gloss
Carnival Night 2, or 50 Years Later as Кабачков Сергей Сергеевич (директор ДК)
‎The Slacker‎ as Semyonych