Sergey Makovetskiy
Known for: Acting
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
Series
Godunov
Иван Грозный
2018
Series
The Life of Klim Samgin
Dmitry Samgin - Klim's Brother
1988
Series
The Fall of the Empire
Nesterovskiy
2005
Series
Bodyguards
отец адвоката Александр Акрапович
2023
Series
Isayev
Леонид Иванович Никандров, литератор
2009
Series
Wolf
Уманский
2020
Series
Liquidation
Фима Петров (Полужид)
2007
Series
And Quiet Flows the Don
Пантелей Прокофьевич Мелехов
2015
Series
The Terrible
Ivan Grozniy
2020
Series
Demons
Павел Дмитриевич Горемыкин
2014
Film
Dead Man's Bluff
Корон
2005
Series
Burnt by the Sun 2
Лунин - капитан
2011
Series
Life and Fate
Shtrum
2012
Series
Trouble in Store
Georgiy Berkutov
2011
Series
Operation Neman
Соломатин
2023
Series
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
Dr. James Sheppard
2002
Film
Three Heroes. Daily Tales 3
Knyaz (voice)
2026
Film
Alyosha Popovich and Tugarin the Serpent
Knyaz of Kiev (voice)
2004
Series
Родина
Mikhail Volskiy
2015
Series
Bad Weather
Ярослав Александрович («Яр-Саныч») Куделин
2018
Series
Dear Willie
Леонид Ильич Брежнев
2025
Film
Temptation
2007
Series
Peter the Great: The Testament
2011
Film
Duska
Duska
2007
Series
Умельцы
Купцов
2014
Series
Zuleikha Opens Her Eyes
Wolf Karlovich Leibe
2020
Film
Burnt by the Sun 2: Exodus
captain Lunin
2010
Series
Три богатыря. Ни дня без подвига
Knyaz (voice)
2024
Film
Brother 2
Belkin
2000
Series
72 Meters
2004
Film
12
juror #1
2007
Film
Volchok
Tarasov
2025
Film
Trivial Of My Life
Dr. Belyaev
Film
Of Freaks and Men
Yohan
1998
Series
Трасса смерти
2017
Film
The Russian Game
Shvokhnev
2007
Film
Dobrynya Nikitich and Gorynych the Dragon
Knyaz of Kiev (voice)
2006
Film
My Pet Dragon
Knyaz
2025
Film
Burnt by the Sun 2: Citadel
Lunin
2011
Film
Live and Remember
2008
Series
Знакомство
2018
Film
Three Heroes on Distant Shores
Knyaz of Kiev (voice)
2012
Film
The Flood
1983
Film
Odessa Steamboat
Kapitan parokhoda
2019
Film
The Girl and Death
Old Nicolai
2012
Film
Tzadik
Reuben Yankel
2023
Film
Three Heroes and the Navel of the World
Knyaz of Kiev (voice)
2023
Film
Horse Julius and Big Horse Racing
Knyaz of Kiev (voice)
2020
Film
72 Meters
Chernenko
2004
Film
Three Heroes and the Shamakhan Queen
Knyaz of Kiev (voice)
2010
Film
The Arrival of a Train
1996
Film
Ilya Muromets and Nightingale the Robber
Knyaz of Kiev (voice)
2007
Film
The Day Before
Павел Евгеньевич Грушевский (министр культуры)
2016
The Brest Peace
Trotsky
1989
Trofim
Трофим
1995
Film
Horse Julius on the Throne and Three Heroes
Knyaz of Kiev (voice)
2021
Film
Three Heroes and the End of the World
Knyaz (voice)
2025
Film
It Doesn't Hurt Me
Doctor
2006
Film
Gloss
2007
Film
Three Heroes and Julius Caesar
Knyaz of Kiev (voice)
2015
Film
Hotel «At the Dead Mountaineer»
Alek Snevar
2027
Film
Carnival Night 2, or 50 Years Later
Кабачков Сергей Сергеевич (директор ДК)
2007
Film
Three Stories
Tikhomirov
1997
Film
B/W
Алхан
2015
Film
The Priest
отец Александр Ионин
2009
Film
Three Heroes: The Heiress to the Throne
Knyaz of Kiev (voice)
2018
Film
Moscow Parade
1992
Film
The Miracle
Kondrashov
2009
Film
Operation 'Happy New Year'!
Hopelessly Sick
1996
Film
To Paris!
Stoletov
2019
Film
Liver, or Story of a Startup
2021
Film
A Key to the Bedroom
Ivanitsky
2003
Film
Третий вариант
2003
Film
Three Heroes and the Princess of Egypt
Knyaz of Kiev (voice)
2017
Film
The Slacker
Semyonych
2007
Film
Three Heroes. Daily Tales
Knyaz (voice)
2024
Film
Retro Threesome
Sergey
1998
Film
Sons of Bitches
Borya Sinyukhaev
1991
Film
The Foundling
2019
Film
Uncle Vanya From Moscow’s Vakhtangov Theater
Ivan Petrovich Voynitsky
2018
Film
Three Heroes and the King of the Sea
Knyaz of Kiev (voice)
2016
Film
An Essay for Victory Day
Chichevikin
1999
Film
Russian Riot
Alexey Shvabrin
2000
Film
The Initiated
Леха
1990
Film
Trotsky
Лев Седов, сын Троцкого
1994
Film
How «Brother 2» Was Filmed
self
2000
Film
New Russians
("Verpackungen")
2015
Film
Round Dance
1994
Film
Mother
1990
Film
Makarov
1993
Film
Obstacle Course
1984
Film
Summerfolk
Сергей Басов
1995
Film
Little People of the Bolshevik Lane, or I Want Beer
1993
Film
Zhvanetsky
self
2025
Film
Amphitryon
2003
Film
Take Alive
Alexander Proletkin, scout, Odessa
1982
Film
Chernov/Chernov
Kostya Shlyapin
1990
Film
2-Assa-2
Pyotr
2008
Film
Eternal Homecoming
2013
Film
Неверность
Eduard Kostyga
2006
Film
The Will
1986
Film
I, Son of the Working People
1983
Film
Наш американский Боря
1992
Film
Layer
2022
Film
Alexey Balabanov. Find Your Own and Calm Down
Self
2020
Film
The Black Veil
Синев Пётр Дмитриевич
1995
Film
Ilfipetrov
Narrator / Ilya Ilf (voice)
2013
Film
Patriotic Comedy
1992
Film
Rothschild's Violin
Shostakovich
1996
Film
A Play for a Passenger
1995
Film
Three Heroes. Daily Tales 2
Knyaz (voice)
2025
Film
Tevye the Milkman
Мотл
1985
Malva
1984
Happy birthday, Your Majesty
Edward
2006
Film
American Artichokes
1987
Film
Green Cats
Eduard
2017
Film
Mechanical Suite
Plyuganovsky
2002
Film
The Belkin Tales: The Shot
Officer
1981
Film
Verpackungen
2014
Film
Apnoe
1992
Film
The Crew of a Battle Vehicle
заряжающий Гриша Чумак
1983
Film
The Black Monk
Andrey Kovrin
2017
Film
A Child by November
Lyosha (husband Nadya)
1992
Just the Two of Us
Vasily
2001
Film
The New Year's Mystery
2010
Film
The Art of Death
2022
Film
He Didn't Tie His Shoelaces
1997