Biography of Ivan Urgant - a famous Russian showman, actor and musician

TV host of popular programs, showman, actor and musician Ivan Urgant, whose biography interests more and more incalculable number of fans, since childhood he dreamed of following in the footsteps of his relatives and working in the theater. But since it's not very lucrative (that the guy realized right away), he decided to try himself at the cinema. Luck did not immediately smile - before getting his first role, he was forced to work for several years in the nightclubs of St. Petersburg.

Biography of Ivan Urgant: childhood and adolescence

April 16, 1978 in the creative family of showman and actor Andrew Urgant and Honored Artist of Russia Valeria Urgant was born a son who was given the name Ivan. Grandmother Nina and grandfather Lion (father's parents) were also actors. When Ivan was very young, his parents split up. Mom was always busy on the set, so the boy's education lay on the shoulders of his grandmother, who replaced him and his father and mother. As a schoolboy, Ivan attended a music school, and after receiving a certificate of secondary education, he immediately enrolled in the second year of the Academy of Theater Arts in St. Petersburg. In his student years he experienced himself on stage, playing in "Macbeth". After graduation, the guy hoped that the work in the theater would allow him to provide a comfortable existence, but was mistaken. Then he went to work as a waiter in one of the nightclubs. For several years he wandered about like institutions, tried himself as a bartender and a leading party.

Biography of Ivan Urgant: first roles

1996 can be considered the starting point of the career of Urgant. This year, he played a small role in the film "Tough Time". In 1999, he appeared in one of the series "The Street of Broken Lights". And then came the period of calm - until 2004 as an actor, he did not make itself felt. At this time he is engaged in music: he releases the album "Star" together with Maxim Leonidov.

Since 1999, he began to work on the radio station "Super-radio" and in parallel to conduct the television program "St. Petersburg Courier". Soon he was invited to the "Russian Radio". Urgant, without hesitation, moves to Moscow. From "Russian Radio" he turns into "Hit-FM", and then becomes a TV presenter at "MTV Russia".

In the early 2000s, Ivan's popularity was gaining momentum - he was invited to conduct various programs, viewers call him "the opening of the year."

His first major role in the movie, which was the beginning of a real success, Urgant gets in 2007. It was the movie "He, she and I". Then he is removed in several pictures at the same time. Ivan Urgant's biography is rich in participation in such films as "Three and the Snowflake", "The Wizard", "Paradox", "Europe-Asia", "Mad Money", "Freaks", "Vysotsky. Thank you for being alive". In 2011, he renewed his musical activity.

Biography of Ivan Urgant: interesting facts

The showman plays guitar, balalaika, percussion, xylophone, keyboards, domra. There was a time when he worked as a musician in a Spanish restaurant, now he is one of the owners of the restaurant "The Garden". Ivan collects good wine and guitars, likes to eat deliciously, considers himself to be a "crazy sweet tooth", does not like when his hometown is called Peter.

Ivan Urgant: biography

The wife of the showman is Kiknadze Natalia, - his former classmate. In 2008, she gave birth to Ivan's daughter Nina. Before the marriage with his current wife, the actor was married to Karina Avdeeva for several months and had relations with Gevorgyan Tatiana, with whom they worked together on the MTV Russia channel.