Sergei Garmash

Sergei Leonidovich Garmash (Серге́й Леони́дович Гарма́ш; born 1 September 1958) is a Soviet and Russian film and stage actor.

He is a People's Artist of Russia.

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.

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".

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.

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.

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.

Later, Sergei received the Nika award for his roles in the films My Half-Brother Frankenstein (2004), 12 (2008) and Home (2011).

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 2013 he was a member of the jury at the 35th Moscow International Film Festival.

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.