Sergey Makovetskiy

About

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...

Known for

LiquidationSeries • 2007Dead Man's BluffMovie • 2005Alesha Popovich and Tugarin the DragonMovie • 200412Movie • 2007Brother 2Movie • 2000Burnt by the Sun 2: ExodusMovie • 2010Burnt by the Sun 2: CitadelMovie • 2011Three Heroes and the Shamakhan QueenMovie • 2010Three Heroes on Distant ShoresMovie • 2012Horse Julius and Big Horse RacingMovie • 2020Three Heroes: The Heiress to the ThroneMovie • 2018Horse Julius on the Throne and Three HeroesMovie • 2021Of Freaks and MenMovie • 1998Dobrinya and the DragonMovie • 200672 MetersMovie • 2004Three Heroes and the King of the SeaMovie • 2016Ilya Muromets and Sparrow the RobberMovie • 2007GlossMovie • 2007The Girl and DeathMovie • 2012Three Heroes and Julius CaesarMovie • 2015Three Heroes and the Navel of the WorldMovie • 2023It Doesn't Hurt MeMovie • 2006B/WMovie • 2015The PriestMovie • 2009