
Sergey Makovetskiy
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”.
TV Shows(25)

Dear Willie
Леонид Ильич Брежнев

Три богатыря. Ни дня без подвига
Knyaz (voice)

Bodyguards
отец адвоката Александр Акрапович

Operation Neman
Соломатин

The Terrible
Ivan Grozniy

Zuleikha Opens Her Eyes
Wolf Karlovich Leibe

Wolf
Уманский

Знакомство

Godunov
Иван Грозный

Bad Weather
Ярослав Александрович («Яр-Саныч») Куделин

Трасса смерти

Родина
Mikhail Volskiy

And Quiet Flows the Don
Пантелей Прокофьевич Мелехов

Demons
Павел Дмитриевич Горемыкин

Умельцы
Купцов

Life and Fate
Shtrum

Trouble in Store
Georgiy Berkutov

Burnt by the Sun 2
Лунин - капитан

Peter the Great: The Testament

Isayev
Леонид Иванович Никандров, литератор