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Sergei Garmash
Sergei Garmash
Сергей Гармаш
	Garmash in Toronto, 2017
Born	Sergei Leonidovich Garmash; 1 September 1958 (age 66); Kherson, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union
Citizenship	Soviet Union; Russian
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1974–present

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.^[1]^[2] In 2013 he was a member of the jury at the 35th Moscow International Film Festival.^[3]

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.^[2]

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.^[4]

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.^[5]

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 for his studies. Upon completion of Moscow Art Theatre School (class I. M. Tarhanova) in 1984, Garmash was accepted into the troupe of the "Contemporary" 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

Year	Film	Award	Category	Result
1999	Voroshilov Sharpshooter	Nika Award	Best actor in the supporting role	Nominated
2000	Tender Age	Nika Award	Best actor in the supporting role	Won
2000	Tender Age	Golden Aries	Best male actor in the supporting role	Won
2001	Mechanical Suite	Special prize of the permanent committee of the Union State	"Hero of our time" — for the screen embodiment of true male character^[6]	Won
2001	Mechanical Suite	Nika Award	Best male actor	Nominated
2002	Lover	Nika Award	Best male actor	Nominated
2003	And they Woke up in the Morning	Golden Eagle Award	Best actor in the supporting role	Nominated
2004	The Devils	Theatre award "Chaika"	"A dazzling moment"	Won
	Our Own	Golden Eagle Award	Best male actor in film	Won
	72 Meters	Golden Eagle Award	Best male actor in the supporting role	Nominated
	My Step-brother Frankenstein	Nika Award	Best male actor in the supporting role	Won
2005	Poor Relatives	White Elephant	Best actor in the supporting role	Won
2005	Poor Relatives	Nika Award	Best male actor in the supporting role	Nominated
2007	12	Golden Eagle Award	Best male actor in film	Won
2007	12	Nika Award	Best male actor	Won
2008	Stilyagi	Golden Eagle Award	Best male actor in the supporting role	Won
2008	Stilyagi	Nika Award	Best male actor in the supporting role	Nominated
2009	Woe from Wit (play in the Sovremennik Theatre)	Public and Business Award "Kumir"	Best male actor in theatre (for the role of Famusov)^[7]^[8]	Won
2011	Home	Nika Award	Best male actor	Won
2011	Home	Golden Eagle Award	Best male actor in film	Nominated
2012	The White Guard	Golden Eagle Award	Best male actor in television	Nominated
2015	Leningrad 46	The professional prize of the Association of Film and Television Producers in the field of television movies	Best actor of a television film/serial^[9]^[10]^[11]	Won

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