Origin
In 1978, on April 16, Urgant Ivan Andreevich was born in the city of Leningrad. The showman's biography began in a creative family. His dad, Andrei Urgant, is a famous TV presenter, and his mother, Valeria Kiseleva, is a theater actress. Ivan’s grandfather, Lev Milinder, was an artist at the St. Petersburg Comedy Theater, and his grandmother, Nina Urgant, became famous for her role in the Soviet film “Belarusian Station.” This beloved and revered actress performed on the stage of the Alexandrinsky Theater for many years. They did not officially register their union and a year later Ivan Urgant’s parents separated.
The biography of this famous person has many interesting twists and turns. Vanya always had a lot of relatives: his mother remarried a few years later and gave birth to two girls; his father also once officially married and gave his son a half-sister, Masha. In addition, the grandfather of the future showman married several times, each time officially, so Vanya formed a real “network” of various family ties in St. Petersburg. Fortunately, the boy communicated quite closely with his own father, who was able to interest him in the work of a TV presenter. Vanya’s dearest and closest person since childhood was her grandmother, Nina Urgant. She instilled in her grandson a love of theatrical art.
Ivan Urgant
In the mid-nineties, he was a bartender's assistant, emptying ashtrays and rejoicing when he found a hundred dollars on the floor. Music critic Oleg Karmunin described the early Ivan somehow this way (quote, sorry, inaccurate). But Urgant himself deceived time: he, unlike most of his colleagues, first hosted corporate events and parties, and only then got on TV, in the St. Petersburg show “Evening Courier”.
From there Urgant moved to MTV. I met Shelest and Komolov, failed the first casting, became disillusioned with the people of the capital, but came to audition for “Bright Morning” again. To break.
“I remember how someone in the control room, without turning off the microphone, cackled during the break and said: okay, that’s it, we’re done with this idiot! And I sat there, sweating with fear. Returning to St. Petersburg, I said to myself and my relatives: “This is all exaggerated, a soap bubble...”
The distances didn't bother me. Urgant traveled from St. Petersburg to Moscow by train, and his MTV salary of $400 was spent on round-trip tickets.
Education
The biography of Ivan Urgant interests many. From the age of thirteen, the boy was left to his own devices: he spent the night where he wanted, communicated with those who interested him. He successfully graduated from the gymnasium at the State Russian Museum and immediately entered the second year of the St. Petersburg Academy of Theater Arts. The artist honestly admits that he entered this educational institution through connections: the course under the leadership of Andrei Tolubeev consisted entirely of acting children. Ivan didn’t even take the entrance exams, but was forced to demonstrate his talents in front of his future classmates. This experience was not an easy test for him. As a student, the future showman had the opportunity to try his hand at the theater stage: he played in the same play with Alisa Freundlich. She portrayed Lady Macbeth, and Ivan played guard No. 12. However, work in the theater did not become the main thing for Ivan. He sincerely loved this type of art, but he understood that you couldn’t make a lot of money in it. And the guy always strived for financial independence.
Ivan Urgant: where in our country is the word “relax” written?
This season we will try to make a strange compromise. We will invite spectators, but only a little at a time. We will carefully protect them from any influence and protect ourselves from them so that there is no exchange of viruses. There will no longer be 150 people, but six or seven. There will be an opportunity to talk to them.
- So this is not even a chess seating arrangement?
- Yes, spot.
— How will people be selected? Maybe some kind of competition?
- No competitions. With us, whoever wants to come, comes. It’s just that before there was a competition of one person per place, now there’s a little more. Let's try. We ourselves do not understand how to behave in this situation. We understand one thing - that a full studio of people is not yet possible. We do not want to endanger the spectators themselves who come. And doing “chessboard seating” is a difficult thing. We can’t bring them to us in a “chess” manner. Maybe we’ll gradually increase the number of viewers, we’ll see.
— Is it clear about the guests?
— Guests came even at the height of the pandemic, it’s easier with them. By the way, this didn’t happen anywhere in the world, because my colleagues overseas switched to full distance mode. We kept our distance and also did Zoom interviews. But even in difficult times there were guests. Of course, wearing masks, of course, we didn’t kiss them three times when we met, trying to leave the maximum amount of drool on our cheeks. As a result, they did not become infected and did not infect.
I think it will be the same with guests as before. Thanks to all the people who come, and I hope that they also approach this responsibly. Here we periodically take tests, analyses, and disinfect the premises. The temperature is measured at the entrance. Some people say: “Why measure the temperature, what difference does it make?” It seems to me that this matters, the elimination is still happening.
— Do you have any understanding of personalities? Who will you call in the new season?
“These are people who had something important and bright happen in the summer. In the first program we invite the cast of the series “Chicky”, which, in my opinion, has become the main series of the summer. This is a great success. Another guest is Petr Yan, our athlete, who became the second UFC champion after Khabib Nurmagomedov. This also happened this summer, also a reason to call him. For some people, television premieres and film premieres are starting. We react to what is happening around us. Sometimes we call someone simply because we haven’t seen them for a long time.
I don’t have a question: should we call Shirvindt? The question is: when to call Shirvindt? Always! Every season we start, I say: “Let’s invite Shirvindt as the first guest.” Now I’m reading his book, it contains his thoughts about how long he will continue to head the Satire Theater. There are various rumors, but nothing has been officially announced; it is unclear whether he will remain artistic director or leave, become honorary president of the Satire Theater or simply the owner of satire, its inventor. But it doesn’t matter to us, we’ll still be happy to invite him when he returns from Valdai. He can come to us even every two days, I don’t care. In these cases I say: “This is my program, I do what I want, I call whoever I want.”
Labor activity
Ivan Urgant’s work biography began at school. As a high school student, he worked as a loader at a distillery. Then dad got Ivan into a nightclub, where the future celebrity worked as a waiter and later as a bartender. At the age of nineteen, the guy began hosting a night show in one of the drinking establishments in St. Petersburg. He always dreamed of trying his hand at this particular business, because his father was a famous TV presenter, founded the Actors’ Night Club, hosted the show “Golden Ostap” and numerous theatrical skits. Ivan followed in his father’s footsteps; due to his line of work, he had to improvise all the time, but the guy quickly overcame his anxiety and learned to speak in front of the public with dignity. This work brought not only moral satisfaction, but also tangible material income. Urgant Ivan Andreevich, whose biography is discussed in this article, despite family ties, never entered the service through the “service entrance”. His employment was always accompanied by participation in various castings. At first he became a presenter on the St. Petersburg “Super Radio” and only after that he ended up on television. He hosted the program “Petersburg Courier” on Channel Five, where he talked about factory everyday life and the work of confectionery factories.
Dmitry Nagiev
Dmitry started with the St. Petersburg radio station “Modern”. He won several prizes as the best DJ in the country, but understood that all this was just local fame. Hung with medals, Nagiyev remained a pathetic no-name from peripheral radio, and the only way to correct this misunderstanding was to move to the capital. To spite Yakubovich and the others.
“Leonid Yakubovich presented me with a prize without knowing my name. He called me: “What do you think?”
But the legendary “Beware, modern!” was not Dmitry’s debut television project. Before this, my uncle worked on Channel 5, hosting the little-known show “Telecompact”. Again - for St. Petersburg residents and those nearby.
Moving to Moscow
In the early 2000s, the biography of Ivan Urgant was marked by another fateful event: the guy moved to Moscow. First, he got a job as a TV presenter on the MTV channel and hosted the show “Bright Morning”. Here the showman made new friends who helped him acquire the necessary skills to work on television. Very soon, Ivan’s career began to gain serious momentum. Already in 2003, he began, together with Fekla Tolstaya, to host the People’s Artist project, broadcast on the Rossiya TV channel. The television audience immediately noticed the charismatic presenter. Ivan Urgant, a biography whose personal life is constantly under close attention of the press, became the winner in the “Discovery of the Year” category. From that moment on, all roads opened up for the promising showman - he began to be invited to federal television channels and to all kinds of clubs in the capital. The celebrity jokes that he always applied for work in serious television programs like the Vesti program and only recently learned to look at authoritative television commentators without outright envy. However, the career of the sparkling Ivan Urgant was now inextricably linked with work in entertainment shows.
Andrei Malakhov
Andryusha arrived in Moscow as a diligent nerd: he was pursuing honors from Moscow State University, learning English and practicing in the “Time” program. She almost killed Malakhov’s television prospects: during the most depressing practice, Andrei decided that the radio was much more interesting than the box.
But he didn’t have time to leave: “Good Morning” urgently needed a student who spoke English. It was necessary to replace the international editor. Simply put, spend the night in the hallway and translate news from CNN. The momentary desire to work hard overcame common sense, and Malakhov promised to come. Then I changed my mind, but it was too late.
“I promise, I promise, and, naturally, I don’t come anywhere... They call me to the dean, they say, why did you promise and not come to work? That means I’m all red - I made a promise, and, naturally, I’m coming back.”
Further - according to the standard. He voiced the video - he became the voice of the fashion column “Style”, replaced a colleague - he ended up in the studio chair of “Good Morning”. And it started spinning.
Career development
Ivan Urgant’s mother has always been an exceptional theater actress. Her son's biography is a brilliant example of how old school acting becomes a good base for developing other skills in show business. Ivan had everything to develop a dizzying career: a winning appearance, artistic abilities, an exceptional ability to improvise and a big name. Urgant very quickly became a welcome guest in all television projects. In 2005, he appeared as a TV presenter of the show “Big Premiere” on Channel One. Then he could be seen in the programs “Smak”, “Spring with Ivan Urgant”, “One-Storey America”, “Wall to Wall”, “Eurovision”, “Circus with the Stars” and so on. At some point, the showman simply did not leave the TV screen: he performed in the rating shows “ProjectorParisHilton” and “Big Difference”; was co-host of Ksenia Sobchak at the Muz-TV Awards ceremony (2010); traveled together with Vladimir Posner in the television projects “Their Italy” and “Tour de France”. Ivan Urgant, the biography whose photos are published in this article, could well have bothered the picky television public, but he skillfully avoided such an unenviable fate. He left the show “Big Difference” and refused to participate in other rating programs in order to devote himself to working on a completely new television project.
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The TV presenter on the air of “Evening Urgant” apologizes to the Ukrainians for this joke in the culinary program “Smak”: “I chopped the greens like the red commissar of the inhabitants of the Ukrainian village.” The showman said that he did not want to offend anyone and simply said something stupid without thinking. “I couldn’t even imagine that in a humorous program, a program in which I never talk about anything seriously, that a bad joke I said could cause such a sharp reaction in Ukraine, in the country that I love very much.”
Evening Urgant
April 16, 2014
"Evening Urgant"
On weekdays, in the evenings from Monday to Friday, Channel One broadcasts a real fireworks show of jokes, live music, news of the day and vivid interviews with the most famous interlocutors. Critics believe that “Evening Urgant” is the only project equally loved by ordinary viewers and the “creative class,” that is, people who, in principle, do not watch federal channels. The transmission format is reminiscent of foreign analogues, but this is where the similarities end. The creative biography of Ivan Urgant has reached a new level: the showman presented to the audience a unique national television product that is interesting to all segments of the population. The basis of the show is a sparkling dialogue with famous personalities. Each guest of the program reveals himself in a new way. Urgant's brilliant improvisations and his witty remarks on the topic of the day make the project unique. The most exciting topics are covered in this show, and with each episode it is less and less reminiscent of similar American television programs. Ivan argues that it is much more difficult to make the Russian public laugh, and it is no easier to stop the resulting fun. A great many celebrities visited the Evening Urgant studio: Oksana Pushkina, Nikolai Baskov, Sigourney Weaver, Alain Delon, Hugh Jackman, Svetlana Khodchenkova, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Vladimir Zhirinovsky, Tina Kandelaki, Vyacheslav Zaitsev, Elizaveta Boyarskaya and many others.
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The presenter returns the “Apology from Ivan Urgant” section, now it is called “Mi scusi”. Urgant talks about a traffic police officer from Chelyabinsk who briefly blocked traffic so that a lame dog could safely cross the road: “As the drivers said, the road was blocked again because of some bitch.” This time the presenter is proactive. Urgant apologizes in advance, in the same issue, in case someone thinks that he meant the traffic police officer.
Evening Urgant
January 27, 2020
Film work
These days, Ivan Urgant has become a real celebrity and recognizable media personality. The biography and personal life of the TV presenter is on everyone’s lips. He is often offered work in films, but the artist simply does not have enough time to participate in filming. Back in 2005, Ivan starred in the full-length film “180 cm and above.” Two years later, viewers saw him in the films “Three and a Snowflake” and “He, She and Me.” The showman claims that his remark that the expected fee should be enough to buy an apartment in the capital stops even the most persistent employers. However, Urgant is regularly involved in the filming of New Year’s films “Yolki”, “Yolki-1”, “Yolki-2” and so on. Together with Sergei Svetlakov, Ivan managed to create an unforgettable tandem, loved by many viewers. And the project “One-Storey America,” which Urgant led in company with Pozner, was awarded the Nika National Film Award in 2008.
Movie
For the first time, television viewers were able to see Lev Maksovich in the television version of the play “Motley Stories.”
Lev Milinder. On the right on one of the skits. Source: pinterest.ru
Then there were nine more film roles, including: a detective in “The Big Cat Tale”, a colleague of the main character in the drama “You Are the Only One”, an archivist in the third part of “National Security Agent”.
Yes, Milinder acted a little, all his main activity was the theater.
Lev Milinder in the film-play “The Big Cat's Tale”, 1965
But the actor was also connected with films by dubbing. For example, he voiced a disabled man in The Adventures of Prince Florizel.
Music career
Ivan Urgant is interested in music. Back in the 1990s, he performed songs in various clubs under the artistic pseudonym Grandson. At this time, the showman was actively involved in music: he mastered playing the piano, recorder, drums and guitar. Together with Maxim Leonidov, Ivan released his first music album in 2000. In 2011, Urgant again tried his hand at the musical field: he began performing under the pseudonym Grisha Urgant and radically changed his appearance. The artist has already shot a video for the song “Voices” from the new album. Ivan appeared before the audience with a bushy mustache. The singer has a very serious image - there is no smile, no laughter, no humor in him. All songs from the new album belong to Urgant himself.
Nationality
Everyone is interested in how happy Ivan Urgant is in his personal life. The biography and nationality of the TV presenter are also of general interest. It is known that the artist’s grandfather, Lev Milinder, had Jewish roots, and his grandmother, Urgant Nina, was born Estonian. Andrey Urgant is Russian according to his passport. Ivan Urgant’s mother is of the same nationality. The artist’s biography indicates that the mixing of different bloods contributes to the emergence of incredibly talented children. A real showman has appeared in the St. Petersburg acting family, constantly delighting the audience with his performances.
Personal life
Lev Maksovich was known as a seasoned ladies' man. Women adored him for his excellent sense of humor, a sea of charm and his role as the soul of the company. In total, Milinder was married five times.
His first marriage to actress Nina Urgant was short. Despite the birth of their son Andrei (famous actor Andrei Urgant), the young people separated. The reason for this was the frequent betrayal of the flighty Leo.
Nina Urgant and Lev Milinder. Source: r2.mt.ru
In turn, Milinder's son, who inherited charisma and masculine charm from his father, gave his father a grandson, Vanya. Now he is a famous popular presenter, actor and musician Ivan Urgant.
Unlike his heartthrob father and grandfather, Urgant Jr. remains faithful to his only wife Natalya. They have two daughters together, and Ivan also considers his wife’s daughter and son from previous marriages to be relatives.
Andrey Urgant, Lev Milinder and Ivan Urgant. Source: stuki-druki.com
There is no information about the actor’s other unions with women.
It is known that Lev Maksovich had a daughter, who after her marriage left for Holland, about whom the actor wrote a joke. The fact is that my daughter married a Turk. And when his grandson was born, Milinder joked: “I now have my own dirty Jew in Holland.”
Relationships with girls
Ivan jokes that he took after his grandfather, so in his personal life he was never lonely. The TV presenter first married Karina Avdeeva at the age of 18. This union lasted only six months. Then Ivan allowed himself an office romance and entered into a civil marriage with Tatyana Gevorkyan, who worked as a TV presenter on the MTV channel. The girl did a lot for the development of Urgant as a media personality. With her, the showman acquired the necessary gloss, learned to dress beautifully and fashionably, and entered the circle of the most famous people in show business. The relationship with Tatyana lasted five years, then it ended on the girl’s initiative.
Family life
Currently, Ivan Urgant is completely happy in his personal life. The biography and family of the celebrity deserve the highest praise. In 2007, the artist met his former classmate, Natalya Kiknadze. She is the niece of the general director of the Sport TV channel, Vasily Kiknadze. The girl gave the showman a daughter, Nina, in 2008. Ivan Urgant sacredly protects his family. A biography with his wife is a separate page in the fate of the famous artist. It was in alliance with Natalya that truly dizzying success came to him. The artist never allows any flirting with fans and colleagues and religiously protects his family.
Now you know a lot about the life of Ivan Urgant. I would like to wish him further success and happiness in his family relationships.
