Cast & creator
Sergey Makovetskiy
Best known for Bodyguards, The Fall of the Empire, The Life of Klim Samgin
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”.
Also known as: Маковецкий Сергей Васильевич, Sergey Makovetskiy, Sergey Makovetsky, Sergei Makovetskiy
102
film credits
25
television credits
127
1981–2027 · acting roles
5.9
average across scored titles
Signature credits
Known for
Across film & television
Filmography (127)
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Bodyguards
отец адвоката Александр Акрапович
2023
The Fall of the Empire
Nesterovskiy
2005
The Life of Klim Samgin
Dmitry Samgin - Klim's Brother
1988
Godunov
Иван Грозный
2018
Liquidation
Фима Петров (Полужид)
2007
Dead Man's Bluff
Корон
2005
Alesha Popovich and Tugarin the Dragon
Knyaz of Kiev (voice)
2004
The Terrible
Ivan Grozniy
2020
Isayev
Леонид Иванович Никандров, литератор
2009
And Quiet Flows the Don
Пантелей Прокофьевич Мелехов
2015
Demons
Павел Дмитриевич Горемыкин
2014
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
Dr. James Sheppard
2002
Dear Willie
Леонид Ильич Брежнев
2025
Life and Fate
Shtrum
2012
Wolf
Уманский
2020
Operation Neman
Соломатин
2023
Родина
Mikhail Volskiy
2015
Trouble in Store
Georgiy Berkutov
2011
Brother 2
Belkin
2000
Burnt by the Sun 2
Лунин - капитан
2011
Three Heroes. Daily Tales 3
Knyaz (voice)
2026
Trivial Of My Life
Dr. Belyaev
Burnt by the Sun 2: Exodus
captain Lunin
2010
Bad Weather
Ярослав Александрович («Яр-Саныч») Куделин
2018
Peter the Great: The Testament
2011
12
juror #1
2007
My Pet Dragon
Knyaz
2025
Умельцы
Купцов
2014
Tzadik
Reuben Yankel
2023
The Girl and Death
Old Nicolai
2012
Zuleikha Opens Her Eyes
Wolf Karlovich Leibe
2020
Three Bogatyrs and the Light with a Wedge
Knyaz (voice)
2025
Три богатыря. Ни дня без подвига
Knyaz (voice)
2024
72 Meters
2004
Horse Julius on the Throne and Three Heroes
Knyaz of Kiev (voice)
2021
Three Heroes and the Shamakhan Queen
Knyaz of Kiev (voice)
2010
Burnt by the Sun 2: Citadel
Lunin
2011
Hotel «At the Dead Mountaineer»
Alek Snevar
2027
Temptation
2007
Of Freaks and Men
Yohan
1998
Three Stories
Tikhomirov
1997
Dobrinya and the Dragon
Knyaz of Kiev (voice)
2006
The Russian Game
Shvokhnev
2007
Duska
Duska
2007
Carnival Night 2, or 50 Years Later
Кабачков Сергей Сергеевич (директор ДК)
2007
Volchok
Tarasov
2025
Ilya Muromets and Sparrow the Robber
Knyaz of Kiev (voice)
2007
Three Heroes and the Navel of the World
Knyaz of Kiev (voice)
2023
It Doesn't Hurt Me
Doctor
2006
Gloss
2007
Operation 'Happy New Year'!
Hopelessly Sick
1996
Odessa Steamboat
Kapitan parokhoda
2019
Трасса смерти
2017
Three Heroes: The Heiress to the Throne
Knyaz of Kiev (voice)
2018
Horse Julius and Big Horse Racing
Knyaz of Kiev (voice)
2020
Three Heroes. Daily Tales
Knyaz (voice)
2024
Live and Remember
2008
Three Heroes and Julius Caesar
Knyaz of Kiev (voice)
2015
The Arrival of a Train
1996
B/W
Алхан
2015
72 Meters
Chernenko
2004The Brest Peace
Trotsky
1989
Знакомство
2018
Three Heroes and the King of the Sea
Knyaz of Kiev (voice)
2016
Liver, or Story of a Startup
2021
Alexey Balabanov. Find Your Own and Calm Down
Self
2020
Uncle Vanya From Moscow’s Vakhtangov Theater
Ivan Petrovich Voynitsky
2018
Moscow Parade
1992
The Day Before
Павел Евгеньевич Грушевский (министр культуры)
2016
Retro Threesome
Sergey
1998
An Essay for Victory Day
Chichevikin
1999
Russian Riot
Alexey Shvabrin
2000
The Crew of a Battle Vehicle
заряжающий Гриша Чумак
1983
Mother
1990
New Russians
("Verpackungen")
2015
A Key to the Bedroom
Ivanitsky
2003
Three Heroes on Distant Shores
Knyaz of Kiev (voice)
2012
Summerfolk
Сергей Басов
1995
The Will
1986
Rothschild's Violin
Shostakovich
1996
The Flood
1983
The Miracle
Kondrashov
2009
Chernov/Chernov
Kostya Shlyapin
1990
Three Heroes and the Princess of Egypt
Knyaz of Kiev (voice)
2017
Trotsky
Лев Седов, сын Троцкого
1994
2-Assa-2
Pyotr
2008
Eternal Homecoming
2013
Three Heroes. Daily Tales 2
Knyaz (voice)
2025
The Slacker
Semyonych
2007
To Paris!
Stoletov
2019
Sons of Bitches
Borya Sinyukhaev
1991
Zhvanetsky
self
2025
Little People of the Bolshevik Lane, or I Want Beer
1993
Green Cats
Eduard
2017
Amphitryon
2003
Mechanical Suite
Plyuganovsky
2002
Round Dance
1994
The Priest
отец Александр Ионин
2009Trofim
Трофим
1995
The Foundling
2019
The Art of Death
2022
Take Alive
Alexander Proletkin, scout, Odessa
1982
A Child by November
Lyosha (husband Nadya)
1992
The Black Veil
Синев Пётр Дмитриевич
1995
Makarov
1993
Layer
2022
A Play for a Passenger
1995
Ilfipetrov
Narrator / Ilya Ilf (voice)
2013
Tevye the Milkman
Мотл
1985Happy birthday, Your Majesty
Edward
2006
Patriotic Comedy
1992
Наш американский Боря
1992
Третий вариант
2003
Obstacle Course
1984Malva
1984
The Initiated
Леха
1990
How «Brother 2» Was Filmed
self
2000
He Didn't Tie His Shoelaces
1997
The New Year's Mystery
2010
Verpackungen
2014
The Black Monk
Andrey Kovrin
2017
I, Son of the Working People
1983
Неверность
Eduard Kostyga
2006
The Belkin Tales: The Shot
Officer
1981Just the Two of Us
Vasily
2001
American Artichokes
1987