Sergei Garmash

Sergei Leonidovich Garmash (russian: Серге́й Леони́дович Гарма́ш; born 1 September 1958) is a Soviet and Russian film and stage actor. He is a People's Artist of Russia. In 2013 he was a member of the jury at the 35th Moscow International Film Festival.

Biography

Early life and education

Sergei Garmash was born on September 1, 1958 in the city of Kherson of the Ukrainian SSR, in a family of workers. His mother, Lyudmila Ippolitovna was from a small village in Western Ukraine, she graduated after seven classes and spent her whole life working as a dispatcher at a bus station. Sergei's father, Leonid Trofimovich Garmash was a driver at first, then graduated from the institute and began to work in leadership positions.

Garmash was a difficult child, he was expelled from school several times. After school, he wished to enter the nautical institute, but ended up filing documents for the Dnepropetrovsk theatrical school. He graduated from the school with a degree in "Puppet Theater Artist". Then he worked in Kherson, traveling with tours to nearby villages and collective farms.

Two years later Garmash was called up for military service in the ranks of the Soviet Army in the building battalion. He served in the town of Bologoye.

After serving in the army, in 1980 Garmash went to Moscow to apply to theater schools. Initially he filed application documents for three theatrical institutions at the same time. Later he picked the Moscow Art Theater School" Moscow theater.

Career

Sergei made his cinematic debut in 1984. His first work was the role of Urin in the heroic ballad of Alexei Simonov's ''Detachment'' with Aleksandr Feklistov. Then he acted in the films "In the Shooting Wilderness" (1985) by Vladimir Khotinenko, '' Wild Pigeon'' (1986) by Sergei Solovyov, "Ivan the Great" (1987) by Gabriel Yeghiazarova, ''Stalingrad'' (1989) by '' Yuri Ozerov'', ''The Master and Margarita'' (1994) by Yuri Kara, ''Voroshilov Sharpshooter'' (1999) by Stanislav Govorukhin and many other films and series, before the beginning of the new millennium he starred in more than fifty films.

In 2001, for the role of the teacher of labor Semen Bespalchikov in the successful drama of Sergei Solovyov's ''Tender Age'' Garmash was awarded the prizes Nika Award and Golden Eagle. Later, Sergei received the Nika award for his roles in the films ''My Half-Brother Frankenstein'' (2004), '' 12'' (2008) and ''Home'' (2011).

Garmash's significant roles include Major Korotkov in the detective series ''Kamenskaya'', where he acted for five seasons, Yevgeny Markerants in the ''Mechanical Suite'' (2001) by Dmitry Meskhiev, Ivan in "Lover" (2002) by Valery Todorovsky, senior warrant officer Nikolai Krauz in the film ''72 Meters'' by Vladimir Khotinenko, drunkard Yasha in ''Poor Relatives'' (2005) by Pavel Lungin, Major Popov in ''Katyn'' (2007) by Andrzej Wajda, Mels's father in the hit 1960s set musical '' Stilyagi'' (2008) by Valery Todorovsky.

Additionally, Sergei acted in the films '' Soundtrack of Passion'' (2009), ''Black Lightning'' (209), ''Lucky Trouble'' (2010), "Once" (2013), "The End of the Beautiful Era" (2015), '' The Duelist'' (2016), the series ''The Hethers of Major Sokolov'' (2014), ''Leningrad 46'' (2015), ''The Investigator Tikhonov'' (2016) and ''Murka'' (2017), etc.

In 2017, the actor appeared in the films '' Attraction'' and "Cold Tango". He also appeared in ''Going Vertical'', ''Matilda'', as well as the comedy-adventure ''Partner'', where he played a major police officer Khromov, whose soul and mind were transferred to the body of a year-old child.

Personal life

His wife is the Russian actress Inna Timofeeva (born 1963), a graduate of the Moscow Art Theatre School, theater actress of the Moscow theater "Contemporary".

Awards

Filmography

Films

* 1986 '' Wild Pigeon'' - astronaut
* 1987 '' Moonzund'' - sailor Pavlo Dybenko
* 1989 ''Stalingrad'' - sergeant Yakov Pavlov
* 1993 '' Children of Iron Gods'' - People in the pub
* 1994 '' Life and Extraordinary Adventures of Private Ivan Chonkin'' - Milyaga, captain of the NKVD
* 1994 ''The Master and Margarita'' - Ivan Bezdomny, poet
* 1995 ''Wolf Blood''
* 1996 ''The Last Courier'' - Andrej Bubka
* 1999 ''Strastnoy Boulevard'' - writer
* 1999 ''The Rifleman of the Voroshilov Regiment'' - police Koshaev
* 1999 ''The Admirer'' - Oleg Viktorovich
* 2000 ''Tender Age''
* 2001 ''Mechanical Suite'' - Markerants
* 2004 ''72 Meters'' - warrant officer Nikolai Karlovich Krausz
* 2004 '' Our Own'' - chekist Tolya
* 2005 ''Poor Relatives'' - wino Yasha
* 2006 ''Piranha''
* 2007 '' 12'' - 3rd Juror
* 2007 '' Katyń'' - captain Popov
* 2008 ''Morphine'' - Vasiliy Osipovich Soborevsky
* 2008-09 ''The Inhabited Island'' - Zef
* 2008 '' Stilyagi'' - Mels's father
* 2009 ''Newsmakers'' - professional killer
* 2009 ''Black Lightning'' - Pavel Maykov, Dmitry's father
* 2009 ''The Book of Masters'' - Magic Horse (voice only)
* 2010 ''The Edge'' - major Fishman
* 2010 ''Burnt by the Sun 2'' - Father Alexander (in the credits - a legless sergeant on a barge)
* 2010 ''Yolki'' - militia Valery Petrovich Sinitsyn
* 2010 ''Lucky Trouble'' - coach Hlobustin
* 2011 ''Home'' - Viktor Shamanov
* 2011 '' Ivan Tsarevich and the Gray Wolf'' - Zmei Gorynych, voice
* 2014 ''Leningrad 46'' - Igor Danilov
* 2015 ''Once'' - uncle Misha
* 2016 ''The Dawns Here Are Quiet — narrator
* 2016 '' The Duelist''
* 2017 '' Attraction'' - deputy prime minister
* 2017 ''Matilda'' - Emperor Alexander III
* 2017 ''Going Vertical'' - Sergei Pavlov, Chairman of the State Committee for Sport of the USSR
* 2022 '' Nakhimovtsy''
* 2023 ''Cheburashka'' - Gena

TV

* 2002 ''Brigada'' - San Sanych SWAT Commander (12 series)
* 2003 ''Lines of Fate'' - Vershinin
* 2005 ''The Case of "Dead Souls"''
* 2005 ''Brezhnev'' - Kandaurov
* 2005 ''The Fall of the Empire'' - Sakharov
* 2012 ''The White Guard'' - Kozyr-Leshko, Colonel of Petlyura forces
* 2017 ''Trotsky'' - Nikolai Trotsky

References

External links

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Garmash, Sergei
1958 births
Living people
Actors from Kherson
Russian male film actors
Russian male stage actors
Soviet male film actors
Soviet male stage actors
Russian people of Ukrainian descent
Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic people
Academicians of the National Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences of Russia
People's Artists of Russia
Moscow Art Theatre School alumni