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”.
Acted in 118
2020s
- 2027
Hotel «At the Dead Mountaineer»
Alek Snevar
- 2026
Three Heroes. Daily Tales 3
Knyaz (voice)
- 2025
Volchok
Tarasov
My Pet Dragon
Knyaz
Dear Willie
Леонид Ильич Брежнев · 4 episodes
Three Heroes. Daily Tales 2
Knyaz (voice)
- 2024
Три богатыря. Ни дня без подвига
Knyaz (voice) · 9 episodes
Three Heroes. Daily Tales
Knyaz (voice)
- 2023
Three Heroes and the Navel of the World
Knyaz of Kiev (voice)
Operation Neman
Соломатин · 5 episodes
Tzadik
Reuben Yankel
- 2022
The Art of Death
Movie
Layer
Movie
- 2021
Horse Julius on the Throne and Three Heroes
Knyaz of Kiev (voice)
Liver, or Story of a Startup
Movie
- 2020
Horse Julius and Big Horse Racing
Knyaz of Kiev (voice)
Wolf
Уманский · 14 episodes
The Terrible
Ivan Grozniy · 8 episodes
Zuleikha Opens Her Eyes
Wolf Karlovich Leibe · 8 episodes
2010s
- 2019
Odessa Steamboat
Kapitan parokhoda
The Foundling
Movie
To Paris!
Stoletov
- 2018
Three Heroes: The Heiress to the Throne
Knyaz of Kiev (voice)
Bad Weather
Ярослав Александрович («Яр-Саныч») Куделин · 11 episodes
Godunov
Иван Грозный · 8 episodes
Знакомство
TV
Uncle Vanya From Moscow’s Vakhtangov Theater
Ivan Petrovich Voynitsky
- 2017
Three Heroes and the Princess of Egypt
Knyaz of Kiev (voice)
Green Cats
Eduard
Трасса смерти
TV
The Black Monk
Andrey Kovrin
- 2016
Three Heroes and the King of the Sea
Knyaz of Kiev (voice)
The Day Before
Павел Евгеньевич Грушевский (министр культуры)
- 2015
And Quiet Flows the Don
Пантелей Прокофьевич Мелехов · 14 episodes
New Russians
("Verpackungen")
B/W
Алхан
Родина
Mikhail Volskiy · 12 episodes
Three Heroes and Julius Caesar
Knyaz of Kiev (voice)
- 2014
Умельцы
Купцов · 1 episode
Verpackungen
Movie
Demons
Павел Дмитриевич Горемыкин · 4 episodes
- 2013
Eternal Homecoming
Movie
- 2012
Three Heroes on Distant Shores
Knyaz of Kiev (voice)
The Girl and Death
Old Nicolai
Life and Fate
Shtrum · 12 episodes
- 2011
Burnt by the Sun 2
Лунин - капитан · 13 episodes
Trouble in Store
Georgiy Berkutov · 8 episodes
Peter the Great: The Testament
TV
- 2010
Three Heroes and the Shamakhan Queen
Knyaz of Kiev (voice)
The New Year's Mystery
Movie
Burnt by the Sun 2: Exodus
captain Lunin
2000s
- 2009
Isayev
Леонид Иванович Никандров, литератор · 16 episodes
The Miracle
Kondrashov
The Priest
отец Александр Ионин
- 2008
2-Assa-2
Pyotr
Live and Remember
Movie
- 2007
Ilya Muromets and Nightingale the Robber
Knyaz of Kiev (voice)
Duska
Duska
The Russian Game
Shvokhnev
Gloss
Movie
Temptation
Movie
12
juror #1
The Slacker
Semyonych
Carnival Night 2, or 50 Years Later
Кабачков Сергей Сергеевич (директор ДК)
- 2006
It Doesn't Hurt Me
Doctor
Dobrynya Nikitich and Gorynych the Dragon
Knyaz of Kiev (voice)
Неверность
Eduard Kostyga
- 2005
The Fall of the Empire
Nesterovskiy · 10 episodes
- 2004
Alyosha Popovich and Tugarin the Serpent
Knyaz of Kiev (voice)
72 Meters
TV
72 Meters
Chernenko
- 2003
Третий вариант
Movie
A Key to the Bedroom
Ivanitsky
Amphitryon
Movie
- 2002
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
Dr. James Sheppard · 5 episodes
Mechanical Suite
Plyuganovsky
- 2000
Brother 2
Belkin
Russian Riot
Alexey Shvabrin
1990s
- 1999
An Essay for Victory Day
Chichevikin
- 1998
Of Freaks and Men
Yohan
Retro Threesome
Sergey
- 1997
He Didn't Tie His Shoelaces
Movie
Three Stories
Tikhomirov
- 1996
Rothschild's Violin
Shostakovich
The Arrival of a Train
Movie
Operation 'Happy New Year'!
Hopelessly Sick
- 1995
Summerfolk
Сергей Басов
The Black Veil
Синев Пётр Дмитриевич
A Play for a Passenger
Movie
- 1994
Round Dance
Movie
Trotsky
Лев Седов, сын Троцкого
- 1993
Little People of the Bolshevik Lane, or I Want Beer
Movie
Makarov
Movie
- 1992
A Child by November
Lyosha (husband Nadya)
Moscow Parade
Movie
Apnoe
Movie
Наш американский Боря
Movie
Patriotic Comedy
Movie
- 1991
Sons of Bitches
Borya Sinyukhaev
- 1990
Mother
Movie
Chernov/Chernov
Kostya Shlyapin
1980s
- 1988
The Life of Klim Samgin
Dmitry Samgin - Klim's Brother · 14 episodes
- 1987
American Artichokes
Movie
- 1986
The Will
Movie
- 1985
Tevye the Milkman
Мотл
- 1984
Obstacle Course
Movie
- 1983
I, Son of the Working People
Movie
The Crew of a Battle Vehicle
заряжающий Гриша Чумак
The Flood
Movie
- 1982
- 1981
The Belkin Tales: The Shot
Officer
No release date
Trivial Of My Life
Dr. Belyaev
Appearances4
2020s
- 2025
Zhvanetsky
self
- 2020
Alexey Balabanov. Find Your Own and Calm Down
Self
2010s
- 2013
Ilfipetrov
Narrator / Ilya Ilf (voice)
2000s
- 2000
How «Brother 2» Was Filmed
self