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 Theater, Music And Cinematography.

Biography

Nagiyev was born in

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(now

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). In his young days, Dmitry Nagiyev has practiced

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(master of sports) under the leadership of Victor Gorlov and

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and

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. He received the title of Junior Champion of the USSR Championships in the 1980s. After school, he became a student at the

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(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

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. 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

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. After the army he entered the

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. He studied in the acting studio of Vladimir Petrov along with

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and Alexei Klimushkin. In September 1990, during a rehearsal of the graduation performance, Nagiyev had an attack, an ambulance urgently took him to the hospital, where doctors diagnosed

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; it took half a year to recover, but Nagiev’s “branded” squint remained for his whole life. In April 2023, it was reported that Nagiyev had emigrated from Russia.

Career

In 1991, after graduating from the institute, he worked in Saint Petersburg at the "Vremya" Theatre, then, was the anchor on "Modern" radio and four times was recognized as the country's best radio host. From 1993 to 2001, he performed songs and monologues in the program "Radio roulette" at the "Modern" radio to the music of

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. 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. Nagiev2000

From 1996 to 2004, he worked a lot in a duet with his Modern radio’s colleague,

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: together they starred in the comedy

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"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

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and

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, and in the early 2000s they wrote jokes for some ''

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'' teams. Also in 1997, they starred in the film "Purgatory" (''Чистилище'') by

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, 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

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"Beware, Zadov!" (''Осторожно, Задов!'') and "Zadov in Reality". From 2000 to 2008 he played in the detective sitcom

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. From 2012 to 2016 he played the role of the owner of the Claude Monet restaurant in the sitcom ''Kitchen'' (''Кухня''). From 2013 to 2016 he starred in the series "'' Two Fathers, Two Sons''" (''Два отца и два сына''). Since 2014, has been playing a major role in the television series "Fizruk". He hosted the programs "Telecompact", "The Burden of Money", the talk show ''Okna'', the final show of the project "Home" (''Дом'') on the TNT channel (2003). From 2005 to the present, Nagiyev is the host on

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. 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,

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, and since September 2018 - the project The Voice Senior. Also in 2011, together with

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and Stepan Urgant, he led the

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"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 "

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'' by

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), which lasted for several weeks in the top of the program"Golden Gramophone Award" on

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. 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

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. Since December 20, 2012, he became the new voice of the "

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

. Starred in the movies, and voicing the cartoons. In 2018, for the first time in 20 years, he played a dramatic role -

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in the film

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''"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

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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 Polina Sergeyevna Gagarina ( rus, Поли́на Серге́евна Гага́рина, p=pɐˈlʲinə sʲɪrˈɡʲe(j)ɪvnə ɡɐˈɡarʲɪnə; born 27 March 1987) is a Russian singer, songwriter and propagandist. She Russia in the Eurovisi ...

(2016)

Theatre

* ''"Cutie"'' is a musical based on the film ''

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'', 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:

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* 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:

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* 2005: Ali Baba * 2005: Kamenskaya 4 * 2005:

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(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 ''The Return of the Musketeers, or The Treasures of Cardinal Mazarin'' () is a 2009 Russian musical comedy film directed by Georgi Yungvald-Khilkevich. The film begins with the deaths of Aramis and Porthos in a fight, the suicide of Athos, and th ...

* 2008:

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* 2008: Happy Together (TV) * 2008: The Traffic Police etc. * 2008: The Women's League * 2009: The Simpletons: Episode One * 2009:

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* 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:

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(TV) * 2012: The Jah's Territory * 2012: The Guaranteed Male * 2012:

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* 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: ''

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'' * 2016: '' Smeshariki. The legend of the Golden dragon'' * 2017: '' Kitchen. The Last Battle'' * 2017: ''

Yolki 6 ''Yolki 6'' (, meaning ''Christmas Trees New''), is a 2017 Russian comedy film, the sequel to '' Yolki 5''. It stars Ivan Urgant, Sergey Svetlakov, Dmitry Nagiyev, Elena Yakovleva, and Yulia Aleksandrova and was widely released in Russia on ...

'' * 2018: ''

Fur-trees Last ''Yolki 7'' (, meaning ''The Last Christmas Trees'') is a Russian comedy film, which is the seventh in the " Yolki" franchise, not counting the spin-off "Paws, Bones & Rock'n'roll ''Paws, Bones & Rock'n'roll'' (, meaning ''Shaggy Christmas Trees ...

'' * 2019 / 2020: '' Kitchen. War For The Hotel'' (TV) * 2020: Save Kolya * 2020: ''

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'' * 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. * Son - 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

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, fled from

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with his

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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

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, but spoke

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, died of

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when Dmitry Nagiyev was nine years old. Dmitry often quotes his grandfather in his television programs and attributes to him funny quotes when he jokes. * Gertruda Tsopke, Nagiyev's paternal grandmother, was a ballerina in the

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of the

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, after the wedding she moved to Ashgabat. She was half German, half Latvian. 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. * Father - Vladimir Nikolaevich Nagiyev, a failed actor: has lived in Ashgabat, he played in the

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by the age of 17, but he was not accepted into a theater institute. Subsequently, he worked at the Leningradskoye Optiko-Mekhanicheskoye Obyedinenie. In Leningrad, he met his first wife Lyudmila Zakharovna. After the divorce, he moved with his mother to a room on Yaroslavsky Prospekt. * Maternal grandfather - the first secretary of the Petrograd district committee of the

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. During the

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he participated in the battle on the

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, was wounded: a bullet ploughed through his chest and was only 3-4 centimeters from the heart, after being wounded he returned to the front. In his programs, Dmitry often mentions grandfather Zakhar, quoting his phrases (or attributing his own to him). * Maternal grandmother - Lyudmila Ivanovna, sang in the

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. * 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). * The younger brother is Evgeny Vladimirovich Nagiyev (born July 1, 1971), an entrepreneur, the owner of a car wash and of a chain of mini-hotels, worked as a

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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. Dmitry calls himself a “Russian Orthodox”.

Social Position

Dmitry Nagiyev - Chairman of the Board of the ''Dmitry Nagiyev Charitable Foundation "Anna"''. In 1996, he headed the youth department of the election headquarters of the candidate for governor of St. Petersburg,

Anatoly Sobchak Anatoly Aleksandrovich Sobchak ( rus, Анатолий Александрович Собчак, p=ɐnɐˈtolʲɪj ɐlʲɪˈksandrəvʲɪtɕ sɐpˈtɕak; 10 August 1937 – 19 February 2000) was a Russian politician and legal scholar, a co-autho ...

, travelling around the city with him and the first deputy chairman of the government of St. Petersburg,

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, distributing buckwheat, stew and other products to the people. According to Nagiyev, in Russia the ruling terms should be limited: ''"There is a written term, how many times you can go to power. So I don’t think that you need to go into power as much as you want"''. 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

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. In April 2023, it was reported that Nagiyev emigrated to

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due to his antagonistic views to 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"

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Nagiyev, Dmitry 1967 births Living people Male actors from Saint Petersburg Russian male film actors Russian male television actors 20th-century Russian male actors 21st-century Russian male actors Russian television presenters Russian television talk show hosts Russian radio personalities Russian people of German descent Russian people of Latvian descent Russian State Institute of Performing Arts alumni Russian people of Iranian descent Russian Orthodox Christians from Russia