Nina, Andrey and Ivan Urgant: Family secrets of the famous acting dynasty

2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55

April 16 marks the 43rd anniversary of the famous actor, showman and TV presenter Ivan Urgant. Nowadays, most viewers associate this surname with him, although he is not the only representative of the famous acting dynasty. Both his grandmother, actress Nina Urgant, and his father, actor and TV presenter Andrei Urgant, left a noticeable mark on Russian cinema. The artists of this dynasty are related not only by talent, but also by the success they enjoyed with the representatives of the opposite sex. True, Ivan Urgant managed to avoid those mistakes and disappointments that befell his grandmother and father.

Nina Urgant

The founder of the acting dynasty was Nina Urgant, whom acquaintances of the artists have always called the real head of this family. She got her sonorous surname from her father, a Russified Estonian. He was a military officer, and the family traveled with him throughout the country. Nina was born in the city of Luga, during the war she lived with her mother in Daugavpils, and after graduating from school she moved to Leningrad, where she entered the Theater Institute. A. Ostrovsky. At the age of 25, Nina Urgant made her film debut and began performing on the stage. The very first film work brought her success - although her role in "Tiger Tamer" was not the main one, the debutante was noticed by both critics and viewers.

Its popularity peaked in the 1960s and 1970s. The audience remembered her for her roles in the films "Entry", "I Come from Childhood", "Sons Go to Battle" and, of course, "Belorussky Station", which has become the hallmark of the actress. The profession has always been in the foreground for her, she gave her all her strength and emotions. She let all the experiences of her characters through herself, and once after filming an episode where her heroine receives a funeral for her husband, the actress ended up in the hospital - her hands were lost due to nerves. On another occasion, she ended up in the hospital with a nervous breakdown after playing a mother who lost her sons.

The actress admitted that while working on a play or film, she needed to get carried away by someone in order for the role to work out. She often fell in love, and when feelings evaporated (usually with the end of filming or rehearsals), she parted easily and painlessly, because these loves, as a rule, did not go beyond the platonic creative hobbies. At the same time, the theater remained her only constant and strongest passion.

Nina Urgant married three times, but none of these marriages lasted long. To her first husband, actor Lev Milinder, she gave birth to a son, Andrei, but when he was several months old, Nina left her husband because of his infidelities. The second marriage with actor Gennady Voropaev broke up after 7 years due to her husband's addiction to alcohol. The third marriage with the choreographer Kirill Laskari, the half-brother of Andrei Mironov, also lasted 7 years and also ended in divorce after the spouses cooled their feelings for each other.

On the eve of her 80th birthday, the actress admitted in an interview: "".

Andrey Urgant

Andrei Urgant grew up behind the scenes and, of course, his path was largely predetermined from birth. Later he recalled: "". Until the age of 16, Andrei bore his father's surname - Milinder, and then decided to take his mother's surname, thanks to which the Urgant family continued.

Due to the heavy workload at work, the actress could not devote enough time to her son. He even spent 2 years in a boarding school. Years later, Andrei said that his mother practically did not deal with them in childhood, that "". At the same time, he treated her very tenderly and reverently and never reproached that he did not receive her attention, because he himself was actually married to his profession.

After leaving school, Andrei Urgant entered LGITMiK. From the very first days of his studies, he realized that he would have to make a lot of efforts in order to prove that he was not just the son of a famous actress, but an independent creative person. However, he succeeded quite quickly. At the age of 21, he began performing on the theater stage, and after 30 he began to receive many offers from filmmakers.

At the moment, the 64-year-old actor has more than 65 roles in his filmography, however, most of them are episodes and supporting roles in serials. Directors willingly used his comedic talent, but rarely offered serious roles. However, the actor was not worried about this - he fully managed to realize his creative ambitions on television, where he became the host of several programs.

Andrei Urgant inherited from his mother not only talent, but also an enthusiastic nature. Even in his youth, he was known as a womanizer, breaking women's hearts, at the institute there were legends about his numerous novels. His first wife was classmate Valeria Kiseleva, already at the age of 21 he became a father, but this student marriage did not last long - Andrei was not ready for the role of husband and father. The couple broke up when their son Vanya was not even 2 years old. The second marriage to actress and poet Alena Svintsova was official, but it also broke up after 10 years. The couple had a daughter, Masha, and she also grew up without a father. The actor and TV presenter after that was in no hurry to tie himself by marriage and lived with his chosen ones in civil marriages. The last of them, actress Elena Romanova, was 30 years younger than him.

Ivan Urgant

Ivan Urgant's parents divorced when he was a little over a year old. He was raised by his stepfather, Dmitry Ladygin, who was also an actor, and Ivan decided on the choice of his future profession in his youth. After school, he graduated from the St. Petersburg Academy of Theater Arts, but since the profession did not bring much income at first, he worked as a waiter, bartender and host of shows in nightclubs. In the second half of the 1990s. Ivan Urgant became a presenter on radio and television, at the same time he began acting in films. In all spheres of activity, he realized his talents to the fullest.

The successor of the famous acting dynasty Ivan Urgant inherited talent from his grandmother and father and achieved impressive success in the profession, but in his personal life he did not repeat their mistakes. He always had no fewer admirers than his father, but he was never a womanizer, and there was no gossip about his novels in the media. He also had a short early marriage at the age of 18, after which he lived in a civil marriage with TV presenter Tatyana Gevorkyan for almost 5 years, and later married a second time to a girl whom he had known since school years. Natalia Kiknadze became the mother of his daughters Nina (named after Ivan's grandmother) and Valeria.

Despite his demand, incredible popularity, growing every year, and the glory of one of the most successful showmen, Ivan Urgant did not sacrifice personal happiness to the profession, and family values always remained in the foreground for him. In private life, he is distinguished by enviable constancy, and relatives speak of him as a caring husband and father. Although the actor and TV presenter rarely speaks about his family, in interviews he has repeatedly stated that his wife and children are the best thing in his life. I wonder if the daughters of Ivan Urgant will continue the famous creative dynasty.

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