Dmitry Nagiev is one of the most famous people in Russian show business. Theater and film actor, director, television and radio host, showman. Nagiyev carefully hides his personal life. It is only known for sure that he was married to radio host Alice Cher and he has a son, Cyril.
Nagiyev can be called a workaholic. He constantly participates in various television shows, acts in films and commercials. In his creative career, there are several dozen television programs where he was a host or co-host. He worked on several television channels and radio stations.
Today Nagiyev is one of the highest paid representatives of show business. According to Forbes magazine for 2018, his income was $ 3.5 million.
Nagiyev leads his page on the Instagram network, where he uploads a lot of photos, accompanying them with interesting comments. He has a huge number of fans who are closely watching his career and personal life.
Brief biography of the showman
Nagiyev turned fifty-two in 2019, but he is full of strength and creative plans.
Dmitry Vladimirovich Nagiyev was born in the hero city of Leningrad back in the days of the USSR. Among his ancestors were representatives of various nationalities, although Nagiyev himself considers himself Russian.
The surname Nagiev has an interesting origin. Dmitry’s grandfather, on his father’s side, ended up in an orphanage in Turkmenistan when his parents died on the way to Ashgabat. There he was called Nikolai and given a new surname - Nagiyev, which means "savior of the world".
Dmitry was carried away by creativity not by chance, because the family already had relatives who had dedicated their lives to art. My grandmother on the father's side was a ballerina and served at the Bolshoi Theater. Maternal grandmother worked as a singer at the Mariinsky Theater. Aunt Dmitry is also a singer who performed as part of the choir under the direction of Grigory Moiseevich Sandler.
A father named Vladimir dreamed about the profession of an actor and even tried to enter the theater institute, but did not pass the competition. This did not stop him from performing on the theater stage for several years.
Dmitry’s mother is a philologist by education. She was an assistant professor and teacher at the Leningrad Academy of Communications named after S. M. Budenny.
Having received secondary education, Dmitry entered LETI (Electrotechnical Institute), but he failed to graduate. He was drafted into the army. Upon returning home, he entered LGITMiK (now the Russian State Institute of Performing Arts).
Creative career
Nagiyev began his creative career with a theatrical stage, then became the host of music and entertainment programs on the Modern radio station. Together with his partner and friend Sergei Rost, he first broadcast on the radio, and then began to appear on television.
In the 1990s, Dmitry first appeared on the big screen in the painting "Purgatory" by A. Nevzorov. Then he got a role in the detective series "Kamenskaya". To date, the actor’s piggy bank has more than a hundred different roles in television and film projects. He also voiced the characters of several famous animated films.
For many years, Dmitry has been playing with Igor Livanov in the play "Kysya", where he plays the main role of the cat Martyn.
He took and continues to take part as a host, co-host, jury member and guest in many television programs: KVN, Windows, Who Wants to Be a Millionaire, Searchlight Perishilton, The Big Difference, Olivier Show, Evening Urgant, Voice.
In 1986, Dmitry married a radio host known as Alisa Sher (real name Alla Anatolyevna Shchelischeva). The couple lived together for more than twenty years, but divorced in 2010. In 1989, they had a son - Kirill Dmitrievich.
Son Cyril
Cyril, like his father and mother, chose a creative profession.
The popularity of his father did not reflect well on Cyril. At school, he was constantly harassed by questions about the details of the controversial Windows project, where at that time his father was the host. The boy was surrounded by the attention of fans of Nagiyev Sr., which, according to him, was a real test for him.
Dmitry was constantly busy filming and working on the radio, so he did not spend so much time on his own child. They rarely saw each other, grandfather was more involved in the upbringing of Cyril.
In his school years, Cyril was sent to the karate section, although he himself dreamed of hockey. He did not really like to engage in martial arts, but his father wanted his son to grow up as a real man, able to fend for himself. As a result, Cyril still achieved considerable success in sports, but he did not have any pleasure from practicing karate.
When Cyril was eighteen years old, his parents divorced. This was a big blow for the young man, especially since the divorce was rather scandalous. Cyril managed to maintain good relations with his parents. Even after the divorce, he did not stop dating his father.
Cyril thought about his creative career in high school. At first, he was more attracted to medicine and history. He even wanted to become an archaeologist, but later still chose a creative profession.
After receiving secondary education, Cyril was admitted to the Moscow School of the Moscow Art Theater. Two years later, he decided to return to his hometown and graduated from the Institute of Theater Arts in 2011.
Cyril’s creative career began in his youth. He starred in one of the episodes of the project "Caution, Backsides!". Then there was work in the project "Daddy's daughters."
Serious role Cyril began to receive in 2010. He starred in the films: Russian Cross, Capital of Sin, Brigade: Heir, Trap, Prince of Siberia, Spaniard.
In his free time, Cyril is actively involved in sports. He likes hockey, snowboarding, surfing and travels a lot. In 2017, he began to engage in the development of a new direction in the tourism business in Karelia under the name "glamping".
Cyril, like his father, prefers not to talk about his personal life. It is known that for many years he has been dating a girl named Julia Melnikova, a professional designer and dancer.
