Films with Alexei Makarov are loved by the modern viewer. Today he is in demand as a star of patriotic action movies and TV shows. The actor worthily continues the tradition of the acting dynasty. After all, he has a special charm, skill. He “feels” the viewer, his requests.
Parents
Alexey Makarov was born into an acting family in 1972. His father, Valery Makarov, and his mother, Lyubov Polishchuk, met while studying at the Omsk Pedagogical Institute at the Faculty of History. Then the couple went to “conquer Moscow”, but the first attempt was unsuccessful, they returned to Omsk, where, in fact, their son Lesha was born. And after six years, the parents divorced. Mom went to the capital for acting happiness, and her father remained to work in the Omsk Philharmonic. Since 1976, after the movie “12 Chairs”, luck smiled at Lyubov Polishchuk and went on arm in arm with her through life. From childhood, Alexey Makarov felt this beauty of the acting profession. The filmography of the mother, even more - role quotes - were known to the boy by heart.
Childhood
In preschool years, the son traveled for his mother throughout the huge Union, but when it came time to study at school, it became clear that the specifics of acting work poorly correlated with the requirements of secondary education.
At that time, Lyubov Polishchuk “was torn to pieces” in various productions of the music hall. At the family council, mother and son agreed that Lesha would study at the 16th boarding school in Moscow (located near VDNH). The boy spent his vacations with his grandmother in Omsk. And when Lyubov Grigoryevna’s personal life improved, and she married her artist Sergey Tsigal, who loves her, Lesha, a student who was already in high school by that time, was finally taken home from the boarding school. And sent to study in a regular school. Young Alexei Makarov connected his future exclusively with the theater. Filmography in the future? This issue was not even considered in those years. There was only one dream: to play in the theater, to transform into various images.
Study, work in the theater
Fate repeats itself. As Lyubov Polishchuk managed to conquer Moscow “the second time”, so Alexei Makarov entered GITIS on the second attempt. In the interval between the receipts was the work of a fireman, a loader, a ticket operator. He graduated from the course of the artistic director of the Mossovet Theater Pavel Chomsky. Since 1994, he worked in the same theater as an actor for eight years.
What is the main feature in the Makarov actor? He himself will later say “dissatisfaction”, “self-digging”, the search for a better option than the one that has already been done. This feature, characteristic of truly creative people, was instilled in him by the theater.
It should be recognized that the young man was not indulged in theatrical roles (there was only one remarkable thing - King Herod in the production of “Jesus Christ is a superstar”). Makarov was looking for a more dynamic work, longing for reincarnations in a wide variety of images, so he left the theater, expecting to get what he wanted in the art contemplated by millions - cinema. Therefore, he left the theater. The subsequent filmography of Alexei Makarov proved: he was right, leaving the stage.
First steps in the cinema
Television and cinema turned out to be exactly what was needed for the explosive temperament of an artist hungry for fame.
The debut role was played by the actor in 1995 in the film “On the Corner, near the Patriarchs”.
In 1999, Alexey Makarov starred in his first film. The filmography of the artist will then be replenished with a huge number of films, the first was the non-episodic role in the thriller Alexander Borodyansky and Boris Geller's “Check”. It is noteworthy that it was Lyubov Polishchuk in conversation with his son who became the most principled critic of this work of his, pointing to a number of shortcomings of the draft film. The creative authority of the star mother and her professional opinion was and is for the actor Makarov indisputable truth.
Critics believe that the first personal fame and respect of the viewer was gained by the action movie "Personal Number" (2004). The theme of the fight against terrorism is relevant today, and the image of Major Smolin created by the actor was remembered by both domestic and even European viewers. Critics have been generous with laudatory reviews, comparing him to Russell Crowe and Bruce Willis. Photos of actor Alexei Makarov were not uncommon in the press.
Movie roles
Since 1995, he has played more than 50 roles in films and series.
The actor does not focus on the role of Superman. To prove this, immediately after the “Personal Number”, the work in the paintings “Quiet Moscow Courtyard” and “Nanny Wanted” followed.
The audience remembered the actor in the following films: “In August of the 44th”, “Truckers”, “What else are men talking about”, “Officers”, “Nanny is required”, “Ulan ballad”, “Three musketeers”, “Miracles in Reshetov "," King. " Films with Alexei Makarov invariably attract the viewer.
Personal life
His first marriage was in his student years with journalist Maria Speranskaya, who was 9 years older. The marriage lasted three years, but the wife did not manage to calm down the explosive nature of Alexei. Then - again the wedding. And again, three years before the divorce. The dancer Olga Siloenkova’s temperament, as the hero of the article later recalled, was also not to be occupied, and the young couple quite violently scandalized in the Italian style.
Actor Aleksey Makarov, whose filmography was the best of all, stubbornly searched for a wife in the creative environment: singer and actress Yekaterina Semenova, again, actress and singer Anastasia Makeeva only temporarily made his heart beat faster ... Actress Victoria Bogatyreva, with whom Aleksey lived in a civil marriage , gave birth to a daughter from him Barbara. But this could not hold.
His third wife (married in the fall of 2011), Maria Mironova, hails from a famous acting family. They met on the set of the "Department of the SSSR".
Alexey Makarov could not resist her charm. Is fate all to blame? Unlikely. Although the relationship between the spouses went wrong during the filming of The Three Musketeers, they divorced for another reason. Which, you ask? All women blame the breakdown, with one voice, temper and jealousy of Makarov.
I would like to hope that Alexey will correctly accept the wishes of the connoisseurs of his talent. Maybe he, as an actor, should just abstract, reincarnate (which he knows how to do) and simply firmly enter the image of an ideal family man and father?
However, he has the willpower. At least not everyone can set a goal to lose 30 kg of weight, as 41-year-old Alexei Makarov did. His filmography, we hope, will be constantly replenished with new ribbons.