Dmitry Nagiyev, actor, TV presenter. Biography

Dmitry Nagiyev — the early years

Dmitry Nagiyev was born on April 4, 1967 in Leningrad. His father worked at an optical and mechanical factory, and his mother, a philologist by training, taught at the Military Academy of Communications. Dmitry also has a brother, Evgeny, and a sister, Natalia.

The actor has an unusual pedigree. His paternal grandfather, Ghulam, tried to move to Azerbaijan from Persia with his parents after the First World War. Iran). His parents died on the way, and the boy ended up in an orphanage in Ashgabat. There he was given the name Nikolai and the surname of the Azerbaijani family that saved him, the Naghievs. The actor's grandmother, Gertrude Zopke, was a ballerina at the Bolshoi Theater. His maternal grandfather, Zakhar, was a defender of Leningrad, and in peacetime worked as the first secretary of the Petrograd district Committee of the CPSU.

During his school years, Nagiyev was seriously involved in sports. At the age of nine, his father brought him to the SAMBO section, but the boy was not accepted due to poor health. However, later there were coaches who saw in him the tenacity and will to win. A few years later, Dmitry took second place in city competitions, and then received the title of Master of sports and became the USSR junior sambo champion.

After school, the future artist entered the Leningrad Electrotechnical Institute at the Faculty of Automation and Computer Engineering. During his studies, in 1987, he was drafted into the army. As a professional SAMBO wrestler, Nagiyev was initially sent to a sports company, but later he was assigned to the air defense forces.

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While serving in the army, Nagiyev realized that he did not want to continue his sports career. After demobilization, he applied to the Cherkasov Leningrad Theater Institute for the course of Vladimir Petrov. Dmitry came to the entrance exams in a military uniform, as he had no other decent clothes. Nevertheless, he brilliantly passed all the tests, beating more than 200 applicants for his place.

Nagiyev graduated from the Institute in 1991. At the rehearsal of the graduation performance in 1990, the actor had an attack. The doctors who were called diagnosed facial nerve paralysis. It took six months to recover, and although the mobility of the facial muscles was still restored, Dmitry still had a slight squint, which later became his "feature".

Dmitry Nagiyev — career in cinema and theater

Back in his student years, Nagiyev began collaborating with the Vremya Theater. After the graduation performance "The Seagull", in which the actor played Dr. Dorn, he and three other graduates were invited to work at the theater in Frankfurt am Main.

After working abroad for two years, Nagiyev returned to Russia. From 1993 to 2001, he was a presenter on Radio Modern. There he met Sergei Rost, Arkady Arnautsky, and his future wife, Alla Shchelishcheva (Alice Sher). In 1995, together with Roste, the actor launched a humorous television sketch show, which later transformed into the series "Beware, Modern!".

In 1999, the TV series "Full Modern!" was released about the life of policeman Nikolai Rylov with Nagiyev as Ensign Zadov. Later, the sequels came out: "Careful, modern! 2", "Careful, Zadov!" and "Zadov in Reality".

Nagiyev's first feature film was Purgatory (1997), in which he played a Chechen warlord. In 1999, the actor appeared in the TV series Kamenskaya as Mikhail Lesnikov.

In 2005, Nagiyev joined the cast of the TV series "The Master and Margarita" by Vladimir Bortko. He played two roles at once — Judas and Baron Maygel. In the same year, the actor also embodied the image of an assassin in the film "New Year's Killer."

From 2012 to 2016, Nagiyev starred in the TV series "Kitchen" as the owner of the restaurant "Claude Monet". The audience fell in love with the project and quickly gained popularity. Subsequently, the feature films "Kitchen in Paris" and "Kitchen. The last battle." Nagiyev no longer participated in the sequel "Hotel Eleon".

In 2014, Nagiyev played one of his most famous roles— Oleg Fomin from the TV series "Fizruk". His character is a former security guard with a criminal past who becomes a physical education teacher in order to regain the trust of his former boss. In total, four seasons with a total duration of 77 episodes were released.

In 2018, the drama "Unforgiven" was released, where Nagiyev played engineer Vitaly Kaloev, who lost his wife and daughter due to an error by an air traffic controller. For this work, he won the Best Actor award at the Crystal Spring Festival.

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In 2021, Nagiyev appeared in front of the audience in an unusual role, playing the role of a maniac in the TV series "Chikatilo". At first, the actor refused to participate in the project for ethical reasons, but later took it as a professional challenge.

In May 2022, the comedy "My Dad is the Leader" starring Nagiyev was released. And in June 2023, the actor appeared in the TV series "Movie about Bandits" paired with Mikhail Porechenkov.

At the same time, Nagiyev served in the theater, participating in productions of "Decameron", "Eratikon" and others. For more than twenty years he has been involved in the enterprise "Kysya" based on the novel of the same name by Vladimir Kunin.

Dmitry Nagiyev on television

As a TV presenter, Nagiyev proved himself in a variety of projects. From 2002 to 2005, he hosted the talk show Windows, known for dramatic plots and scandals in the studio. During one of the releases, Nagiyev even had his nose broken.

In 2003, the actor became one of the hosts of the Dom-1 project together with Ksenia Sobchak, and from 2005 to 2012 he hosted the sports and entertainment show Big Race. From October 2012 to December 2021, Nagiyev worked in the Voice project (10 seasons). He was also a co-host of the show "The Voice. Children" and "Voice. 60+".

Dmitry Nagiyev — personal life

The actor prefers not to advertise his personal life. It is known that he was married once — to Alla Shchelishcheva (Alice Sher). He married her in 1986, after returning from the army. In 1989, the couple had a son, Kirill, who followed in his father's footsteps. He graduated from the studio school at the Tovstonogov Bolshoi Drama Theater, played with his father in Kys, starred in TV series and was a presenter on television.

In 2010, Nagiyev and Cher divorced after 18 years of marriage.