The favorite of the theater audience and the idol of millions of domestic moviegoers - Sergei Makovetsky - rightfully bears the title of People's Artist of the Russian Federation. Today, his creative achievements in theater and cinema are numbered in dozens of popular productions and film works, among which there are also cult ones.
The 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.
Brief biography and filmography of Sergei Makovetsky
The future member of the famous MMMM quartet: Mironov, Mashkov, Menshikov and Makovetsky, also nicknamed the "gutta-percha boy" because of his gentle and friendly character, was born on June 13, 1958 in Kiev. Despite the incomplete working family (the father abandoned his mother before the birth of his son), the boy grew up comprehensively developed. His primary interests included swimming, ice skating, singing in a choir and playing percussion instruments.
While still at school, Sergei became interested in playing in a drama club at the insistence of an English teacher. The idea of becoming actors so captivated the young Makovetsky that after receiving a certificate of maturity, he tried to enter the Kiev Theater Institute, and, having failed the exams, left to enter Moscow the next year. And even here, without entering GITIS, he did not fold his hands and, showing perseverance and character, became a student of "Pike" on the course with Alla Kazanskaya.
In 1980, Sergei Makovetsky received a higher theatrical education and was assigned to the troupe of the Yevgeny Vakhtangov Theater, where he made his debut in the play "Old Vaudeville". And in 1989, the first success came for the role of the Chinese Cherubim in the production of Zoyka's Apartment. Since 1990, the talented actor moved to the Viktyuk Theater for seven years. Here he was noted in such performances as "The Master's Lessons", "Slingshot", "Love with a Fool".
And then there were entreprise with many metropolitan theaters and directors. However, the stage of the Theater. Vakhtangov, where he played in more than twenty performances.
The mass audience knows Sergei Makovetsky not only for his successful theatrical activities, because the greatest coverage of the audience occurs today through the cinema. Currently, the actor's filmography includes the following film projects: "Children of bitches" (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), "The Fall of an Empire" (2005), "Blind Man's 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 Don”(2015),“Death Route”(2017).
Personal life of the artist
The family life of an outstanding actor "without nationality" is distinguished by stability and constancy, so rare among colleagues in the creative department. The only wife of Sergei Makovetsky was Elena Demchenko, who is eighteen years older than him. In this marriage, the couple did not acquire joint children, but Elena's son from his first marriage, Denis, became a truly dear person for the popular artist.
Their family union went through 33 years of strength tests and successfully overcame them all. There were temporary partings associated with excessive libations of alcohol in Sergei's "stormy youth", but the couple got out of them with honor. Today, both "halves" often appear at various film festivals and other public events, radiating happiness and joy from being together.
