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”.
Known For

Bodyguards

The Life of Klim Samgin

Godunov

Operation Neman

And Quiet Flows the Don

The Terrible

Demons

Liquidation
All Movies (100)
- Dead Mountaineer's Hotel2027 · as Alek Snevar
- Три богатыря и свет клином2025
- Volchok2025 · as Tarasov
- My Pet Dragon2025 · as Knyaz
- Three Heroes. Daily Tales 22025 · as (voice)
- Zhvanetsky2025 · as self
- Three Heroes. Daily Tales2024 · as Князь
- Three Heroes and the Navel of the World2023
- Tzadik2023 · as Reuben Yankel
- The Art of Death2022
- Layer2022
- Horse Julius on the Throne and Three Heroes2021 · as Knyaz Kievskiy (voice)
- Liver, or Story of a Startup2021
- Horse Julius and Big Horse Racing2020 · as Knyaz Kievskiy (voice)
- Alexey Balabanov. Find Your Own and Calm Down2020 · as Self
- Odessa Steamboat2019 · as Kapitan parokhoda
- The Foundling2019
- To Paris!2019 · as Stoletov
- Three Heroes: The Heiress to the Throne2018 · as the prince, voice acting
- Three Heroes and the Princess of Egypt2017 · as Knyaz Kievskiy (voice)
- Green Cats2017 · as Eduard
- The Black Monk2017 · as Andrey Kovrin
- Three Heroes and the King of the Sea2016 · as Knyaz Kievskiy (voice)
- The Day Before2016 · as Павел Евгеньевич Грушевский (министр культуры)
- New Russians2015 · as ("Verpackungen")
- B/W2015 · as Алхан
- Three Heroes and Julius Caesar2015 · as Prince Kievskiy (voice)
- Verpackungen2014
- Ilfipetrov2013 · as Narrator / Ilya Ilf (voice)
- Eternal Homecoming2013
- Three Heroes on Distant Shores2012 · as Knyaz Kievskiy (voice)
- The Girl and Death2012 · as Old Nicolai
- Burnt by the Sun 2: Citadel2011 · as Lunin
- Three Heroes and the Shamakhan Queen2010 · as Prince of Kiev (voice)
- The New Year's Mystery2010
- Burnt by the Sun 2: Exodus2010 · as captain Lunin
- The Miracle2009 · as Kondrashov
- The Priest2009 · as отец Александр Ионин
- 2-Assa-22008 · as Pyotr
- Live and Remember2008
- Ilya Muromets and Sparrow the Robber2007 · as Kniaz' Kievskiy (voice)
- Duska2007 · as Duska
- The Russian Game2007 · as Shvokhnev
- Gloss2007
- Temptation2007
- 122007 · as juror #1
- The Slacker2007 · as Semyonych
- Carnival Night 2, or 50 Years Later2007 · as Кабачков Сергей Сергеевич (директор ДК)
- It Doesn't Hurt Me2006 · as Doctor
- Happy birthday, Your Majesty2006 · as Edward
- Dobrinya and the Dragon2006 · as Prince of Kyiv (voice)
- Неверность2006 · as Eduard Kostyga
- Dead Man's Bluff2005 · as Корон
- Alesha Popovich and Tugarin the Dragon2004 · as Prince (voice)
- 72 Meters2004 · as Chernenko
- Третий вариант2003
- A Key to the Bedroom2003 · as Ivanitsky
- Amphitryon2003
- Mechanical Suite2002 · as Plyuganovsky
- Just the Two of Us2001 · as Vasily
- Brother 22000 · as Belkin
- How «Brother 2» Was Filmed2000 · as self
- Russian Riot2000 · as Alexey Shvabrin
- An Essay for Victory Day1999 · as Chichevikin
- Of Freaks and Men1998 · as Yohan
- Retro Threesome1998 · as Sergey
- He Didn't Tie His Shoelaces1997
- Three Stories1997 · as Tikhomirov
- Rothschild's Violin1996 · as Shostakovich
- The Arrival of a Train1996
- Operation 'Happy New Year'!1996 · as Hopelessly Sick
- Summerfolk1995 · as Сергей Басов
- Trofim1995 · as Трофим
- The Black Veil1995 · as Синев Пётр Дмитриевич
- A Play for a Passenger1995
- Round Dance1994
- Trotsky1994 · as Лев Седов, сын Троцкого
- Little People of the Bolshevik Lane, or I Want Beer1993
- Makarov1993
- A Child by November1992 · as Lyosha (husband Nadya)
- Moscow Parade1992
- Apnoe1992
- Наш американский Боря1992
- Patriotic Comedy1992
- Sons of Bitches1991 · as Borya Sinyukhaev
- Mother1990
- Chernov/Chernov1990 · as Kostya Shlyapin
- The Initiated1990 · as Леха
- The Brest Peace1989 · as Trotsky
- American Artichokes1987
- The Will1986
- Tevye the Milkman1985 · as Мотл
- Malva1984
- Obstacle Course1984
- I, Son of the Working People1983
- The Crew of a Battle Vehicle1983 · as заряжающий Гриша Чумак
- The Flood1983
- Take Alive1982 · as Alexander Proletkin, scout, Odessa
- The Belkin Tales: The Shot1981 · as Officer
- Trivial Of My Life— · as Dr. Belyaev
All TV Shows (25)
- Dear Willie2025 · as Леонид Ильич Брежнев
- Три богатыря. Ни дня без подвига2024 · as Князь
- Bodyguards2023 · as отец адвоката Александр Акрапович
- Operation Neman2023 · as Соломатин
- Wolf2020 · as Уманский
- The Terrible2020 · as Ivan Grozniy
- Zuleikha Opens Her Eyes2020 · as Wolf Karlovich Leibe
- Bad Weather2018 · as Ярослав Александрович («Яр-Саныч») Куделин
- Godunov2018 · as Иван Грозный
- Знакомство2018
- Трасса смерти2017
- And Quiet Flows the Don2015 · as Пантелей Прокофьевич Мелехов
- Родина2015 · as Mikhail Volskiy
- Умельцы2014 · as Купцов
- Demons2014 · as Павел Дмитриевич Горемыкин
- Life and Fate2012 · as Shtrum
- Burnt by the Sun 22011 · as Лунин - капитан
- Trouble in Store2011 · as Georgiy Berkutov
- Peter the Great: The Testament2011
- Isayev2009 · as Леонид Иванович Никандров, литератор
- Liquidation2007 · as Фима Петров (Полужид)
- The Fall of the Empire2005 · as Nesterovskiy
- 72 Meters2004
- The Murder of Roger Ackroyd2002 · as Dr. James Sheppard
- The Life of Klim Samgin1988 · as Dmitry Samgin - Klim's Brother