Dmitry Nagiyev is a popular, talented and very charismatic actor and TV presenter. He is a bright and extraordinary personality of Russian show business, the owner of a brilliant sense of humor and, thanks to his charm and brutality, a favorite of women. Now he can safely be included in the list of the most authoritative actors in the Russian Federation. He is the star of such television series as “Kitchen”, “Fizruk”, “Kamenskaya”. Symbol of the "Windows" project.
Dmitry Nagiev
Family
The history of Dmitry Nagiyev’s family is interesting and unusual. His ancestors lived in Iran, but after the end of the First World War, dark times came: constant hunger and disease pushed people to leave their homes and move to new countries, towards the unknown. The family of the father of the future artist was no exception.
Dmitry’s ancestors moved to Turkmenistan to start a new and carefree life there, but the road turned out to be very difficult: almost all family members died, only the nine-year-old boy Gulam, the grandfather of the future showman, survived. Gulam was taken to an orphanage, where he received his new surname - Nagiyev, in honor of the people who found him and did not let him die of hunger. The surname in Azerbaijani translates as “Savior of the World.” Gulam was later christened Nikolai. Dmitry's grandfather knew Arabic and Turkmen, but in most cases spoke Russian. Nikolai (Gulam) died in 1976 from gangrene.
Nagiyev in his youth and now
Gulam's wife and paternal grandmother was Gertrude Sopke, who had German and Latvian roots. Gertrude worked as a ballerina at the Moscow Bolshoi Theater; after the wedding, the woman moved to her husband in Turkmenistan, and after his death in 1976, she returned back to Russia.
In the marriage of Gulam and Gertrude, a son was born, the father of Dmitry Nagiyev - Vladimir. Since childhood, Vladimir Nikolaevich Nagiyev dreamed of a big stage and an acting career. Until he was seventeen years old, he played in the Ashgabat Red Army Theater. Afterwards he went to Moscow to enter the theater school and fulfill his dream, but he was not accepted into the university. Having failed the exams, Vladimir left for Leningrad, where he went to work at an optical-mechanical plant. In Leningrad, Vladimir met his first love - Lyudmila Zakharovna. She was a philologist and taught foreign languages at the Military Academy of Communications.
Nagiyev in his youth
Lyudmila's father, maternal grandfather of Dmitry Nagiyev, held a high position in the CPSU, he was the first secretary of the Petrograd district committee. After the announcement of the Great Patriotic War, he went to the front. Zakhar participated in many military operations, including on the Nevsky Piglet, where he was seriously wounded: an enemy bullet flew literally three to four cm from his heart. After a long recovery, the artist’s grandfather returned to the Red Army. Dmitry very often spoke about his grandfather in his programs, talking about his life and quoting him.
The artist’s maternal grandmother’s name was Lyudmila Ivanovna. She was a very talented and creative person and loved art. The woman worked at the St. Petersburg Kirov Theater.
Dmitry Nagiyev has a brother, Evgeniy, younger by four years. He is a wealthy and successful entrepreneur. Owns a chain of mini-hotels and a car wash. Evgeniy was engaged in bodybuilding, and even worked as an instructor in this field, it was he who trained Dmitry. Nagiyev Jr. also tried his hand at acting: at the beginning of the 2000s, he played in the detective series “Mole.”
Young Dmitry Nagiev
Father's line
The first owner of the now well-known surname was Dmitry Nagiyev’s grandfather Gulam (translated from Arabic as “scientist”). Until the end of the First World War, Ghulam lived in Iran with his parents. However, after that the family fled the country to Turkmenistan. True, only Gulam reached Ashgabat: his father and mother died on the way from hunger. Therefore, the boy ended up in one of the Turkmen orphanages. There he acquired a new name, Nikolai, and the common Azerbaijani and Lezgin surname Nagiyev (translated from Azerbaijani as “savior of the world”). Gulam owed his last name to the people who picked him up and sent him to a boarding school.
When Gulam grew up, fate brought him together with Dmitry Nagiyev’s future grandmother, Gertrude Tsopke, who was evacuated from Moscow to Ashgabat. On her mother's side, Gertrude was Latvian. Her Baltic ancestors bore the surname Leie. But Gertrude’s father came from a German family. However, for the lover Nikolai Nagiyev, the girl’s origin did not matter at all. Tsopke answered the chosen one in the same way. The feelings turned out to be so strong that, having met Nikolai, Gertrude never returned to the capital. And this despite the fact that she danced in the corps de ballet of the legendary Bolshoi Theater. In Turkmenistan, the Nagiyev couple had a son, Vladimir, the father of a famous actor.
Childhood and youth of the future artist
Nagiyev Dmitry Vladimirovich was born in the hero city of Leningrad (now St. Petersburg) on April 4, 1967.
The boy's father wanted his son to play sports. So I took him to judo and sambo. Classes were not easy for the boy; due to weak immunity and damp weather, Dmitry was constantly sick. So, after six months the boy was kicked out of the sections and told his parents to take him away as soon as possible, because his snot was constantly leaking.
Nagiyev in his youth in the TV series “Kamenskaya”
Dmitry remembered these words for the rest of his life. It was very painful and unpleasant for him, but he did not want to leave the sport. And after a while, he returned to his studies. Dmitry devoted himself entirely to training, giving all the instructions. After several years of hard training, Dmitry took second place at the championship in his hometown. There he met his former coach, who kicked him out in disgrace, and came up to say hello. Dmitry asked if he remembered him, the boy with the constant flow of snot. But the guy’s former coach did not apologize, and simply said that everyone makes mistakes in life and this is normal, and congratulated Dmitry not on his victory, but on the fact that he no longer has snot. This angered the guy, and he replied that they were still leaking, only now he had learned to wipe them off.
Soon, Dmitry received the title of master of sports in his field - sambo, and became the champion of the USSR. This once again proved to everyone, and, more importantly, to himself, that he is a strong guy and ready to withstand any test.
After graduating from school, Dmitry did not even think about becoming an artist; he chose a “grain” profession, enrolling in the Faculty of Automation and Computer Science at the St. Petersburg Electrotechnical University.
Nagiyev now
After finishing his studies at LETI, Dmitry joined the army, where he was immediately sent to a sports company, but there was no sambo section there. Therefore, the guy began to serve in a unit of the air defense forces near Vologda. During his time in the army, Dmitry's nose and ribs were broken twice. Later, Nagiyev, remembering the army, said that he had to eat seventeen meters of herring with pearl barley.
Biography of Dmitry Nagiyev
Dmitry Nagiyev was born in Leningrad, there is a lot of blood flowing in his veins, so it is difficult to say who the artist is by nationality. His paternal grandfather is from Turkmenistan, his grandmother has German and Latvian roots. Dmitry's mother is Russian. Currently, Nagiyev lives in the capital, having bought a house in the Moscow region. He rarely appears in his native St. Petersburg, since he works a lot in Moscow.
Family of Dmitry Nagiyev
The family lived very modestly; the parents were not associated with creativity, although the showman’s father at one time really wanted to become an actor. Together with his brother, Dmitry lived in one room in a small apartment. However, despite this, the young man became a master of sports in sambo, and later - the champion of the Soviet Union.
Dmitry's father
Vladimir Vladimirovich Nagiyev (70 years old) is the father of a popular artist. He worked at an optical-mechanical plant in Leningrad, although from a young age he dreamed of going into cinema. In his youth, when he lived in Ashgabat, he played in the theater, but he failed to enter the capital’s theater university. After the wedding, he got a job at a factory and worked there for many years.
Nagiyevs: Vladimir Vladimirovich, Dmitry and Evgeniy
However, family life went wrong when the eldest son Dima turned 12 years old. The boy had a hard time with his parents’ breakup, stopped communicating with his father, and only recently resumed his relationship with him.
Nagiyev's mother
The showman's mother, Lyudmila Zakharovna, was born in 1937. She is Russian by nationality. By education he is a philologist. She worked as a foreign language teacher at the Military Academy and received the academic title of associate professor. After the divorce, Lyudmila raised her sons alone, but Dmitry and Evgeny supported the woman in everything and helped her. The actor’s first wife (Alice Sher) told reporters that Dmitry tried to visit his mother in St. Petersburg in his free time.
Lyudmila Zakharovna with her sons
In the fall of 2015, the artist was informed of the death of his mother while filming the program “The Voice”. The film crew was shocked by how Nagiyev managed to fully work through the episode without a drop of emotion. The artist later admitted that it was the most difficult filming of his life.
Brother of Dmitry Nagiyev
The popular presenter has a younger brother who was born in the summer of 1971. They decided to name the boy Evgeniy. Throughout his life, he managed to work as a security guard, actor, bodybuilding instructor, and now Evgeny Nagiyev is a successful businessman.
Dmitry with his younger brother Evgeny Nagiyev
He owns a chain of small hotels and a car wash. Dmitry often sees his brother; they go out into nature in the company of the artist’s son. Recently, the brothers began to communicate with their father, forgiving him for all his mistakes.
Dima Nagiyev's childhood
The future showman lived throughout his childhood and youth in Leningrad. At that time, he did not even dream of popularity and incredible success in show business. From an early age, Dmitry was involved in sambo and judo, but due to constant illnesses, the boy was expelled from the section (at that time he was a third grader).
Little Dima Nagiev
It was then that he realized that he had to achieve a lot in life, despite any obstacles. Having matured, he took 2nd place at the city championship, and later received the title of master of sports. After graduating from high school, Dima entered the Electrical Engineering Institute, and then joined the army.
Dima with his younger brother Zhenya
Returning from the army to his homeland, Nagiyev decided to enter the Cherkasov Theater Institute. It beat its competitors and was successfully accepted. In his last year of study, he was given a terrible diagnosis - facial paralysis.
Dmitry Nagiyev in his youth
Dmitry underwent long-term treatment, but he was unable to completely overcome the disease. Since then, he often wears an accessory that has become his signature - tinted sunglasses.
The beginning of an acting career
Having been demobilized, Dmitry decided to try himself as an actor and realize the youthful dream of his father Vladimir.
The guy came to audition at the Leningrad Theater Institute named after Cherkasov, where the competition for one place was more than 150 people. But Dmitry was determined, he captivated the jury with his charisma and was enrolled in an acting course.
Nagiyev on the set
During his studies, Dmitry actively participated in various theatrical productions and performances. In his last year of study, the guy started having health problems. He consulted a doctor, who diagnosed him with facial paralysis. Six months later, facial mobility was restored, but the squint, which later became the artist’s signature feature, remained.
Dmitry was also an actor at the Vremya Theater . The theater collaborated with German colleagues, who, at the graduation performance of Dmitry’s course, were looking for several people to exchange. In his graduation performance called “The Seagull,” Dmitry played Dr. Dorn. This role brought the guy recognition at the institute, and he became the best graduate of the year. Dmitry was also noticed by the Germans and invited him to play at the Vremya Theater in Frankfurt am Main. The guy agreed and went to work in Germany for two years.
But the actor loved his homeland very much, and soon returned back to Russia. After returning to St. Petersburg, he became the host of the “Full Modern” program.
Nagiyev in the show “Caution, Modern!”
After a while, Dmitry met his old institute friend Sergei Rostov, with whom they decided to create a new humorous project, “Beware, Modern!” Together they came up with jokes and wrote scripts, which were then performed by Nagiyev in the role of ensign Zadov. The simple and comical program was so loved by the audience that some phrases and jokes became catchphrases.
Film career
Dmitry made his debut in cinematography in 1998, in the film “Purgatory,” where he played a military man, a former doctor who despaired of life after losing his beloved woman. In the same year, 1998, Dmitry could be seen in the film “The Hound of the Baskervilles”.
His next works were the detective series “Kamenskaya”, “Mole” and “Deadly Force”. Afterwards he played Judas and Baron Meigel in the film adaptation of The Master and Margarita.
Nagiyev in the series “Fizruk”
After working on the film adaptation of Mikhail Bulgakov’s novel, Dmitry played in the film “New Year’s Killer,” where he played the roles of a killer nicknamed the Violinist and a real, very famous violinist. The plot of the film was that these characters were constantly getting confused.
In 2008, a film with the participation of Dmitry Nagiyev, “The Best Film,” was released. During the filming of which Mikhail Galustyan and Garik Kharlamov .
The television series “Kitchen”, released in 2012, cemented Nagiyev’s popularity and recognition. Dmitry played one of the main roles in the film - the owner of the best restaurant in Moscow, Claude Monet. The actor appeared before the audience as a rich and self-confident man, popular among women. Maria Gorban in the television series . The actor’s colleagues on the set were Dmitry Nazarov, who played the culinary genius and talented restaurant chef, Elena Podkaminskaya, and Mark Bogatyrev.
The series was very popular with the audience, and soon several seasons of continuation were released. And in 2014, a full-length film called “Kitchen in Paris” was shot.
Nagiyev on the set of the film “Kitchen in Paris”
In the same 2014, the artist pleased his fans with a new role in the series “Fizruk”, where he became the main character. According to the plot of the film, Nagiyev - Oleg Fomin - is a typical street bandit, stuck in the nineties, all his life he worked for a large and influential businessman Mamai, but was fired due to outdated views of the world and working methods. But Foma does not despair and decides, no matter what happens, to return back to work. He finds out that Mamai has a child, whose name is Sanya, he will soon return from abroad and will study at a Moscow school, having learned which one, Foma gets a job there as a physical teacher. But the hero Nagiyev’s plan immediately fails miserably when he finds out that the name Sanya belongs to the girl whom he insulted at the first meeting. Therefore, Foma will have to stay in the role of a teacher much longer than he expected, discover new facets of this world, go through the stage of first love, and at the same time try to change himself.
Nagiyev in the film "Unforgiven"
A television
In the world of show business, Dmitry Nagiyev is as famous as the TV presenter.
He made his debut in this role in 2003 in a scandalous project called “House-1”, where Ksenia Sobchak .
From 2002 to 2005, Dmitry became the host of the TV program “Windows,” where various situations were played out, often using profanity, which led to constant fights and brawls.
Nagiyev in the show “The Voice. Children"
From 2005 to 2012, the showman was the host of the Great Race.
Since 2012, Nagiyev has become the host of the musical television projects “Voice” and “Voice. Children".
Career of actor and showman Dmitry Nagiyev
While still studying at the institute, Dmitry met actor Sergei Rost. Together they created a project called “Caution, Modern,” which brought the actors popularity in a short time. Funny phrases written by Dmitry made the scenes even more comical. In 1997, Nagiyev created his first original show in one of the St. Petersburg dance halls. Famous artists were invited to participate in competitions.
Dmitry Nagiev and Sergey Rost
1998 was the start of Dmitry’s acting career. The very first film that many TV viewers remember is “Purgatory”. He did not immediately agree to play the difficult role of the Chechen commander until he was completely immersed in the character and imbued with the difficult fate of the hero. Later, the actor starred in such TV series as “Kamenskaya”, “Deadly Force”, “Mole”.
Dmitry Nagiyev in the TV series “Kamenskaya”
One of the top-rated films with his participation was the series “Kitchen”, and a year later Dmitry signed a contract with STS to show a new project “Two Fathers and Two Sons”. Nagiyev managed to win many fans thanks to his role in the TV series “Fizruk” on TNT. The project was launched in 2014 and immediately aroused delight among viewers.
"Fizruk" Nagiyev
Nagiyev’s debut on the theater stage took place in 2000, in the musical “Cutie”, then he took part in the productions “Territory” and “Erotikon”. The dramatic play “Kysya”, where Dmitry plays two roles at once, is currently being held with triumph on the stage of the Variety Theater.
Nagiyev in the triumphant production of “Kysya”
Nagiyev was invited to host various television programs. Some of the most successful shows on TV with his participation are “Great Races” and “Windows”. Now Nagiyev works a lot on Channel One, Muz-TV, TNT and STS. Since 2012, he has become the host of the “Voice” music competition, and now it is difficult to imagine this popular vocal duel without Dmitry.
Dmitry Nagiyev in the show “The Voice”
Working in theatre, cinema and television leaves Dmitry practically no time for rest. Colleagues are amazed at his responsibility and dedication. Creativity for Nagiyev is his dream, element and way of life.
Personal life
The press has long been closely monitoring the actor’s personal life. But Dmitry Vladimirovich himself does not like to talk about this topic, maintaining the image of an enviable bachelor.
Nagiyev and Irina Temicheva
Dmitry’s first wife was Alla Shchelitseva, a year older, known as Alisa Sher, a radio and television presenter, journalist, author of a series of books about marriage, one of which is called “I Was Nagiyev’s Wife.” Dmitry and Alla got married in 1986. And three years later, in 1989, the couple had a son, Kirill. He followed in the footsteps of his famous parents and became an actor. While still a schoolboy, he received a role in the television film “Beware, Zadov!” Now Kirill is acting in many TV series and films. in "Brigade: Heir" brought him fame
In 2004, after eighteen years of marriage, Dmitry and Alla divorced.
Since that time, many different novels have been attributed to Nagiyev. The media called the actor’s new chosen one Natalya Kovalenko, who worked as an administrator at Nagiyev. The press reported that the couple had been living together for several years, but the wedding never took place and they broke up.
Nagiyev and Larisa Guzeeva
There are also rumors that Dmitry had an affair with actress Irina Temicheva. It is believed that the artist is married to Irina, and it was he who became the father of her child, but Dmitry does not make any comments about this.
In 2021, the artist was suspected of having an affair with Olga Buzova . Pictures of intimate correspondence between the scandalous singer and a person signed as Dmitry Nagiyev have appeared on the Internet. The showman was forced to somehow react to this information. He called the sensational story disgusting and disgusting, and that it was all someone’s stupid joke.
Nagiyev with his son
