Andrey Urgant

Andrei Lvovich Urgant - artist of Soviet and Russian cinema and theater, host of the TV programs "Meetings on Mokhovaya", "Thank God you came!"

The future actor was born on November 28, 1956 into a theatrical family. Parents Lev Maksovich Milinder and Nina Nikolaevna Urgant served at the time of their marriage in the Yaroslavl Drama Theater, where they went on assignment. Andrei's father subsequently received the title of Honored Artist of Russia. Mother Nina Urgant is People's Artist of the RSFSR, who became famous thanks to the war films "Belorussky Station" and "Sons Go to Battle".

Andrey's ancestors were Jews, Russians and Estonians. After the birth of their son, the actors did not live together for long and soon parted ways. Andrey stayed with his mother. At the age of three, Nina Nikolaevna assigned the child to the Peterhof boarding school, where Andryusha was brought up until the age of 6. There the boy learned to hardening and physical education. Later in his teenage years, he received grades in three sports - javelin throwing, sprint and canoeing.

A great influence on the upbringing of Andrei Urgant was exerted by the third husband of Nina Nikolaevna - ballet master Kirill Laskari. He introduced the boy to the best examples of world literature and music. In his youth, Andrei Urgant was also attached to his mother's friend Iya Savvina, to whom he came to Moscow every vacation. In the house of the actress, Andrei read for the first time a samizdat edition of Mikhail Bulgakov's novel The Master and Margarita, which impressed the young man to the core.

After completing the ten-year period, Andrei Urgant became a student at the Leningrad Institute of Theater, Music and Cinema, workshop of Professor R.S. Agamirzyan. Already during the years of study at a theater university, the young man showed himself as a talented comedian. Skits with the participation of Urgant were very popular among the teaching staff and students. After working from 1977 to 1979 at the theater. VF Komissarzhevskaya, Urgant went to serve in the army. After returning to civilian life, Andrei Lvovich gets a job as an actor in the Theater of the Lenin Komsomol for 7 years.

As the actor himself puts it, he never got serious roles, but the directors gladly used Urgant's comedic talent for productions. The most famous theatrical roles of the actor were his work in the plays "The Importance of Being Earnest" and "The Other Two". In the 90s, Urgant established an institution for the creative intelligentsia "Actors' Night Club" in the northern capital. During the perestroika period, Andrei Lvovich went to serve in the theater on the Fontanka, and then devoted himself entirely to working on TV.

Urgant worked a lot on television in St. Petersburg. With the participation of the artist, the programs "Golden Ostap" and "Twelve" were released. Comedy interludes by Andrei Urgant and Andrei Maksimkov were popular among viewers during the 90s. For 10 years, Andrey Urgant hosted the TV show Meetings on Mokhovaya on Channel Five. Andrei Urgant was the host of the popular culinary show "Smak". 

On the 100TV channel, the actor created the author's project “Egoist”. Urgant's programs are distinguished by a subtle sense of humor, as well as tact and intelligence in relation to the interlocutor. Andrey Lvovich does not allow himself provocative questions in relation to the guests of the program. 

In 2010, the actor took part in the filming of the program "Thank God you came!", Which was created for the STS channel.

The actor works a lot at corporate parties, weddings and birthdays. The talent of the host and showman, which was revealed at the dawn of his creative biography, eventually became the main stable source of decent income. Throughout his life, Andrei Urgant had to earn extra money several times, especially during the difficult years of the collapse of Soviet cinema and theater. 

The work book of Andrey Lvovich contains information on 20 professions of the actor. The screen star had to work as a postman, sailor, construction worker and even a train station porter. Andrei Urgant himself does not complex about this, he is not ambitious.

Andrei Urgant's relationship with cinema was not easy. The actor began appearing on screens in 1982. Basically, these were TV shows or fairy tales for children: "The Last Robber from Hradec Brousev", "Tale after Tale", "The Little Humpbacked Horse". 

In the early 90s, the first significant role of the artist was the character of Gulyaev from Yuri Mamin's adventure phantasmagoria "Window to Paris". The painting was shown on the territory of the former USSR and in the USA. Gradually, the roles of crime bosses in the action films "Racket", "Russian Transit", "Destructive Force", "Special Department" appear in Urgant's acting piggy bank.

In 2005, Urgant starred in Vladimir Bortko's mystical drama The Master and Margarita as entertainer Georges Bengalsky. Alexander Galibin, Anna Kovalchuk, Oleg Basilashvili, Kirill Lavrov, Sergei Bezrukov, Alexander Abdulov, Alexander Filippenko, Valentin Gaft became Andrey Lvovich's acting partners in this film. A close friend of Andrei Urgant, Ivan Krasko, played in this film. 

In the "Love-Carrot" trilogy, the artist got the colorful role of Oleg Lvovich Nero, which Urgant performed brilliantly.

In 2007, the actor was awarded the Petropolis award for the unusual recreation of literary characters on the screen. Andrey Urgant can be seen not only in family comedies such as "My Crazy Family", "First at Home", but also in the comic series "Family", "Voronins", "Heavenly Relatives". 

The artist's filmography includes 74 works.

Andrey Urgant was married 4 times. The first wife of Valery Kiselev studied with Andrey Lvovich on the same course at the Leningrad State Institute of Cinematography. In his first marriage, the actor had a son, Ivan Urgant, who later became a famous TV presenter of Channel One. Programs with Ivan's participation "Smak", "Projectorperishilton", "Evening Urgant" each time gather a large audience of TV viewers. 

Soon after his divorce from Valeria Kiseleva, Andrei Urgant tied the knot with the actress and poet Alena Svintsova. In the second family, the artist had a daughter, Masha, who lives with her mother in Holland.

For some time, Andrei Urgant was in a relationship with Vera Vladimirovna Yatsevich. But the real shock in the artist's personal life was the acquaintance with Elena Romanova. 

The girl is 30 years younger than Andrei Lvovich, but this does not interfere with their family idyll. A young wife helps Andrei Urgant in business, travel and performances. The artist is growing up four grandchildren - Nina, Valeria from his son Ivan; Emir, Gabrielle from daughter Mary. But Andrei himself and his wife Elena are thinking about the birth of another heir.

In 2016, Andrei Lvovich turned 60. The actor does not consider this date for the anniversary, but he made a gift to himself - he bought a professional guitar in order to play music at home with friends, as in his youth. Andrei Urgant practically does not work, all the time he devotes to communicating with his family. 

In February 2017, the artist attended the Life Line charity marathon and baked a batch of pancakes in a restaurant on the Neva. Photos from the last event are freely available on the Internet. Urgant plans to hold a charity evening at the Bolshoy Gostiny Dvor of St. Petersburg.

Window to Paris - 1993 Russian Transit - 1994 Special Department - 2001 Nero Wolfe and Archie Goodwin: Resurrect to Die - 2001 The Master and Margarita - 2005 Family - 2005 Love-Carrots - 2007 Voronins - 2009-2016 Obsessed - 2010 The Life and Adventures of Mishka Yaponchik - 2011 My Crazy Family - 2011 I Undo Death - 2012 Moms 3 - 2015

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