Dmitriy Nagiev

Dmitry Vladimirovich Nagiyev (; born April 4, 1967) is a Russian actor, TV-host, musician, showman and radio host. In 1991, graduated from the Leningrad State Institute of Theatre, Music, and Cinema.

Biography Nagiyev was born in Leningrad, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union (now Saint Petersburg, Russia). In his young days, Dmitry Nagiyev has practiced Sambo, Judo (master of sports) and gymnastics. He received the title of Junior Champion of the USSR Championships in the 1980s.

After school, he became a student at the Saint Petersburg Electrotechnical University (Faculty of Automation and Computer Engineering). While studying, he worked, then began was a part of black marketing. When he was arrested by law enforcement agencies with currency (in the Soviet times, illegal currency circulation was a criminal offense), then, in order to avoid criminal prosecution, he left for military service in the Soviet army. As an athlete he was sent to a sports company, but there was no sambo section, so Nagiyev went to serve in the air defense forces near Vologda.

After the army he entered the Russian State Institute of Performing Arts . He studied in the acting studio of Vladimir Petrov along with Igor Lifanov and Alexei Klimushkin.

In April 2023, it was reported that Nagiyev had emigrated from Russia. From 1993 to 2001, he performed songs and monologues in the program "Radio roulette" at the "Modern" radio to the music of Beethoven. He was the host of the beauty contests. In 1997, in the Saint Petersburg dance hall "Continent" he created an author's show, where he played contests, held theater lounges, as well as a comic auction with various artists.

From 1996 to 2004, he worked a lot in a duet with his Modern radio’s colleague, Sergey Rost: together they starred in the comedy sitcom "Look Out! Modern!" (Осторожно, модерн!), "Full Modern!" (Полный модерн! ), "Look Out! Modern! 2" (Осторожно, модерн! 2), were the hosts of the talk show "Once in the evening" (Однажды вечером) on STS Also in 1997, they starred in the film "Purgatory" (Чистилище) by Alexander Nevzorov, where Nagiyev played his first main role in the movie - the Chechen field commander Dukuz Israpilov.

After Rost’s leaving, he continued to act in the spin-offs "Beware, Zadov!" (Осторожно, Задов!) and "Zadov in Reality". From 2000 to 2008 he played in the detective sitcom Kamenskaya (TV series). From 2005 to the present, Nagiyev is the host on Channel One Russia. In 2005-2014 he led the sports and entertainment show "Big Race" (Большие гонки). Since October 2012, he has hosted The Voice project, and since February 2014, The Voice Kids, and since September 2018 - the project The Voice Senior. Also in 2011, together with Natalya Andrejchenko and Stepan Urgant, he led the reality show "Mother in Act" on the Perets TV channel.

In 2004, he wrote and performed the song "I Her Hoey" (Я её хой) with the group "Russkiy Razmer" and Professor Lebedinsky (a parody of the song "Dragostea Din Tei" by O-Zone), which lasted for several weeks in the top of the program"Golden Gramophone Award" on Russkoye Radio. Together with "Russkiy Razmer" and with Sergey Rogozhin, he recorded the song "My Butterfly".

In 2010 and 2011, with his ex-wife Alice Sher, he hosted the Peter FM radio award ceremony. From 2012 to 2016, he was the permanent host of the annual Golden Gramophone ceremony in a duet with Ivan Urgant. Since December 20, 2012, he became the new voice of the "Russkoye Radio Joke", replacing Vadim Galygin.

Since 2013, participates in the advertising campaign of the Russian mobile operator MTS. In 2014, he starred in an ad for the drug Miramistin. In 2015, he became the advertising person of "The Eurasia" restaurant chain in Saint Petersburg.

Often takes part in the jury of the High League of KVN. Starred in the movies, and voicing the cartoons.

In 2018, for the first time in 20 years, he played a dramatic role - Vitaly Kaloyev in the film Unforgiven by Sarik Andreasyan: "When I received the script, the first question I asked Sarik was:"Are you sure that I am?" The cliches and roles are stuck, and short-sighted or not very brave directors are afraid to invite an artist with a comedy past"

In February 2023, he refused to host the Muz-TV awards, saying "The time will come when we will work to reward the truly best musicians."

Discography 1998: “Flight to Nowhere” (with Anna Samokhina and the Trubniy zov group) 2006: “Silver” (with the group "Razmer Project")

Shooting in clips "Your train is gone" with Elena Vilyuchinskaya (1998) Snowstorm with Elena Vasilyeva (2007) "My Moscow Love" with Arina and the group "Razmer Project" (2012) "Love will find you" with Polina Gagarina (2016)

Theatre "Cutie" is a musical based on the film Tootsie, directed by Lev Rakhlin - the main role "Kysya" (director Lev Rakhlin) - the main role - the cat Martyn, aka Kysya "Eroticon" (director Lev Rakhlin) - 6 characters "Territory" (plot - war in Chechnya) (director Rakhlin) - the main role

Filmography 1990: The Executioner 1995: Bullet to Beijing 1996 / 1998: Look Out! Modern! 1997: Purgatory 2000: Kamenskaya 2000: Nadezhda's House 2001: Look Out! Modern 2 2001: Mole 2002 / 2005: Okna 2002: The Destructive Power 2002: Mole 2 2002: Camera! Action! 2003: Kamenskaya 3 2003: Russian Special Forces 2003: The Game Without Rules 2003: Upside Down 2004: Russian Special Forces 2 2004: Yeralash 2005: Ali Baba 2005: Kamenskaya 4 2005: The Master and Margarita (TV) 2005: Hunting Wapiti 2005: The Fight Without Rules 2005: Balzac Age, Or All The Men Are Bastards 2005: The New Year Killer 2006: Weaknesses Of A Strong Woman 2006: Sonya The Golden Hand 2007: On The Way To The Heart 2007: Kilometer Zero 2007: Paradox 2007: The Fatal Likeness 2007: The Rock-Climber And The Last Of The 7th Lullaby 2008: The Return of the Musketeers, or The Treasures of Cardinal Mazarin 2008: The Best Movie 2008: Happy Together (TV) 2008: The Traffic Police etc. 2008: The Women's League 2009: The Simpletons: Episode One 2009: The Best Movie 2 2009: Katya 2009: The City Of Seductions 2009: The Last Wagon 2009: If Ifs And Ans Were Pots And Pans 2009: Savva Morozov 2009: The Russian Cross 2010: The Husband Of My Widow 2010: Robinzon The Woman 2010: The Frozen Despatches 2010: The Capital Of Sin 2011: Two Pistols 2011: To Run 2011: The Rules Of The Masquerade 2011: Mayakovsky. Two Days 2011: The International Airlines Pilot 2011: Kamenskaya 6 2012 / 2016: Kitchen (TV) 2012: The Jah's Territory 2012: The Guaranteed Male 2012: The Snow Queen 2013: What Men Up To 2013: The Courier From The Paradise 2013: The Polar Trip 2013 / 2016: Two Fathers, Two Sons (TV) 2014: The Shell-Shocked 2014 / 2017: The PE teacher 2014: The Kitchen in Paris 2015: The Cage 2015: Horoscope for good luck 2015: Only with the left hand 2015: The Very Best Day 2016: Smeshariki. The legend of the Golden dragon 2017: Kitchen. The Last Battle 2017: Yolki 6 2018: Unforgiven 2018: Yolki 7 2019 / 2020: Kitchen. War For The Hotel (TV) 2020: Save Kolya 2020: Goodbye America 2020: Nagiyev in quarantine 2021: Don't Heal Me 2021: Chikatilo 2021: BOOMERang 2022: Swingers 2022: Papy (Upcoming) 2022: Moy papa - vozhd (Upcoming) 2022: 12 Chairs (Upcoming) 2024: Grimsburg 2024: Yolki 11

Personal life

The ex-wife (from 1986 to 2010) - Alla Nagieva (nee Shchelischeva) (born June 18, 1966), is known as Alice Sher. Radio and television host, writer, journalist. Dmitry Nagiyev in 2009Son - Kirill Dmitrievich Nagiyev (born August 31, 1989), an actor at the theater and cinema, a TV host. In 2022 - Actor and TV presenter Dmitry Nagiyev became a grandfather. He blurted this out in an interview, talking about his only son, Cyril. The showman noted that the heir does not really want to work with him on the frame.

– Now in the movie “The Hunter” he refused to play my son, he does not want parallels and the appearance of us together in the frame. Perhaps this is correct. I, as a dad, would be happy: once again my son is under supervision. And the son is already a father himself,” the artist told Caravan of Stories magazine.

Together with his older sister and her husband, they keep a stable near St. Petersburg, redeeming horses intended for slaughter.

He is a fan of the St. Petersburg Zenit.

In 2016, he became the richest Russian actor according to the Forbes magazine. His annual income amounted to $ 3.2 million.

He called himself “the sexual revolution leader”.

Lineage

Nagiyev's paternal grandfather, Nikolai (Gulam) Nagiyev, after the First World War, fled from Iran to Ashgabat with his Arab parents. On the way, his parents died of starvation, and the boy ended up in a Turkmen orphanage, where he was given the name Nagiyev in honor of the people who brought him there (Turk. it means Savior of the world), and the new name Nikolai. He was fluent in Turkmen and Arabic, but spoke Russian, died of gangrene when Dmitry Nagiyev was nine years old. Her ancestors were from Baltic states and their first name were Leie and the Germans with the surname Tsopke; after the death of her husband she moved to her son in Leningrad. Maternal grandmother - Lyudmila Ivanovna, sang in the Kirov Theatre. Mother - Lyudmila Zakharovna Nagiyeva (1938 - October 30, 2015) - philologist, teacher, assistant professor at the Department of Foreign Languages at the Military Academy of Communications (Saint Petersburg). an entrepreneur, the owner of a car wash and of a chain of mini-hotels, worked as a bodybuilding instructor, coached his older brother, starred in the TV sitcom "The Mole" (ru, Крот), is fond of racing, worked as a head of the security guard for a large night disco. Aunt - Nadezhda Zakharovna, sang in the Sandler’s choir.

In 1996, he headed the youth department of the election headquarters of the candidate for governor of St. Petersburg, Anatoly Sobchak, travelling around the city with him and the first deputy chairman of the government of St. Petersburg, Vladimir Putin, distributing buckwheat, stew and other products to the people.

Nagiyev condemns contemporaries who use the slogans "To Berlin" and "We can repeat" in their speech, offering to drag Russia into a war similar to the Great Patriotic War.

In April 2023, it was reported that Nagiyev emigrated to Turkey due to his disapproval of the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

Books Alice Sher — "I was Nagiyev’s wife" Alice Sher — "How to never get married. Harmful advices to ex-wife of Dmitry Nagiyev"