The favorite of the theater audience and the idol of millions of domestic moviegoers - Sergey Makovetsky - rightfully bears the title of People's Artist of the Russian Federation. Today, his creative achievements in theater and cinema number dozens of popular productions and film works, among which there are cult ones.
Outstanding domestic actor Sergei Makovetsky for his life rich in creative achievements received not only recognition of the high level of professionalism in our country, but also abroad. Indeed, the status of the best dramatic actor in Europe, received in 1994, was added to his title of People's Artist of the Russian Federation.
Short biography and filmography of Sergei Makovetsky
A future participant in the famous MMMM quartet: Mironov, Mashkov, Menshikov and Makovetsky, also nicknamed the "gutta-percha boy" because of his soft and friendly character, was born on June 13, 1958 in Kiev. Despite the incomplete working family (the father left his mother before the birth of his son), the boy grew up comprehensively developed. His primary interests included swimming, skating, singing in a choir and playing percussion instruments.
At school, Sergei was carried away at the insistence of an English teacher by playing in a drama circle. The idea of becoming actors so fascinated the young Makovetsky that after receiving a certificate of maturity, he tried to enter the Kiev Theater Institute, and after failing exams, the next year he went to enter Moscow. And even here, without entering GITIS, he did not fold his hands and, showing perseverance and character, did become a student of "Pike" in a course with Alla Kazan.
In 1980, Sergei Makovetsky received his higher education in theater and was assigned to the troupe of the Yevgeny Vakhtangov Theater, where he made his debut in the play "Ancient Vaudeville." And in 1989, the first success came for the role of the Chinese Cherubim in the production of Zoikin’s apartment. Since 1990, for seven years, the talented actor moved to the Viktyuk Theater. Here he was noted in such performances as "Lessons from the master", "Slingshot", "Love with the moron."
And then there were enterprises with many theaters and directors in the capital. However, the stage of the outstanding actor continued to be the stage of the Theater. Vakhtangov, where he played in more than twenty performances.
The mass audience knows Sergey Makovetsky not only by his successful theatrical activities, because the greatest audience reach today is through cinema. Currently, the filmography of the artist includes the following film projects: "Bitch Children" (1990), "Patriotic Comedy" (1992), "Retro Threesome" (1998), "About Freaks and People" (1998), "Brother-2" (2000), “Mechanical Suite” (2001), “Key to the Bedroom” (2003), “72 Meters” (2004), “Death of an Empire” (2005), “Blind Man” (2005), “Infidelity” (2006), "Liquidation" (2007), "12" (2007), "Live and Remember" (2008), "Pop" (2009), "Peter the First. Testament" (2011), "Girl and Death" (2012), Life and Fate (2012), Demons (2014), Quiet Flows the Don (2015), Death Track (2017).
