Sergei Makovetsky

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 Theatres company For nearly three decades Sergei Makovetsky has earned critical praise audience loyalty and multiple awards including the title of Peoples Artist of Russia in a variety of stage roles highlighted by a 9 season run as the title character in Molieres Amphitrion and as Trigorin in Chekhovs The Seagull His film work includes the eponymous role in Dutch director Jos Stellings Duska and an appearance alongside Nikita Mikhalkov in Aleksei Balabanovs 2005 violent black comedy Blind Mans Bluff