Alexey Makarov was born in an acting family, in the city of Omsk. His mother, Lyubov Polishchuk, was on the list of the most demanded actresses of Russian theater and cinema. With Alexey's father, actor Valery Makarov, Love met when she was seventeen. Alexei still bears his father's surname, although his parents split up when he was four.
After parting with her husband, Lyubov Polishchuk left for Moscow with her son. There she began working in the music hall. Father did not see his father again. Valery Makarov died in 1990.
You can not call Alexei's childhood light, he experienced all the "charms" of acting: touring, traveling ... When Alexei was five he already could boast of having visited almost all regions of the country: from Tashkent to BAM. When it was time to go to school, my mother had to give Alexey to a boarding school - only so he could get a full education.
Changed life of Alexei at the moment when his mother got married. Stephen became the artist Sergei Tsigal, who decided to take the boy from the orphanage and give it to a regular school. In a year and a half in this happy family there was a replenishment - the daughter of Masha was born. Since my parents worked hard, my sister had to work with Alexei.
Continuation of the dynasty
Actor wanted to become Alexei at the age of fourteen. The boy really wanted to do a film and see himself on the billboard of the main cinema in Moscow.
After Alex finished school, he decided to enter GITIS. Although Alex's mother tried to dissuade him in every possible way, the boy was adamant. The first attempt to enter the faculty did not succeed, and Alexei went to work. He sold tickets in a cabaret, he was a night fireman and even a loader at a vegetable store.
The second attempt was successful and Alexei became a student of GITIS. They took him to the course of PO. Chomsky, who was the main director and artistic director of the Theater. Moscow City Council. Together with him on the course studied Ekaterina Rednikova and Eugenia Kryukova.
Mossovet Theater
Alexey graduated from GITIS in 1994 and after that went to work at the Mossovet Theater, in which the main director was his teacher. Then the future of the young actor looked cloudless and beautiful, but in reality it was not so. A big role for eight years of work on the stage, and she was the only such scale, was the play in the play "Jesus Christ - Superstar", in which he played King of Herod. And at some point, Alex realized that he could work for many more years, and in the end would be useless to anyone. After that, at the age of twenty-nine, he left the theater, went to nowhere ...
The first film
The debut in the movie Alexei happened in 1999 - he played a major role in the thriller of Hiller and Borodyansky "Check." In the same ninety-ninth year he starred in the drama "Voroshilovsky shooter" Stanislav Govorukhin, he played one of the rapists.
After that, Alexei waited for diverse films. He also starred in TV series ("The Turkish March", "Truckers") and in various films ("In Motion", "In August of the 44th"). Thus, by the time the actor left the theater, he already had several roles in the cinema in his list of achievements. However, his finest hour has not yet come.
Role in the "Personal Number"
All-Russian fame to Alexei brought a role in the action movie "Personal Number", it happened in two thousand and fourth year. In the film, he played a major in the special services of Smolin - this was the main role. After the release of the film on large screens, European distributors began comparing Alexei with Russell Crowe. And at a Moscow press conference he was generally christened Russian Bruce Willis.
New roles and roles
After the beginning of the film rental, which made him famous, Makarov admitted that he did not want to carry the image of superman. Therefore it is quite natural that the actor began to try himself in a new role. So in a year, in 2005, Alexey played roles in absolutely diverse films - "Quiet Moscow Court" and "Required Nanny".
Personal life
Married Alex was twice and both marriages ended in divorce. The first time he married, when he was still in GITIS, together with his wife they lived for three years. The second marriage also did not last long.