Ivan Urgant was born in 1978 on April 16, in the city of Leningrad, in a family of actors. Father Ivan - Andrew Urgant - actor of theater and cinema. Mother - Valeria Kiseleva - actress of the Comedy Theater. Grandmother and grandfather Ivan along the line of his father were also actors - Nina Urgant, who performed the role in the famous film "Belorussky Railway Station", and Lev Milinder. Ivan was brought up mainly by his grandmother, since his parents divorced a year after his birth. He studied at the Leningrad school No. 18, then at the gymnasium at the State Russian Museum. At the end of the gymnasium, Ivan does not hesitate to enter the Academy of Theater Arts of the city of St. Petersburg. Of course, his decision was influenced by the acting life of his grandmother and father. All the childhood Ivan spent in the theater, standing behind the scenes and peeping at the play of the actors.
His interests are music, Ivan loved the songs of Mikhail Boyarsky, as well as sports. In the academy of theatrical art, Ivan immediately enters the second year, the Urgant family was famous. But, despite the actor's roots and childhood, held in the theater, the theater does not become his place of work. As he says, in the theater very little is paid, life is not enough. Being still a student to earn a living, he gets a job in nightclubs. In one he works as a waiter, in the other he performs Spanish songs, and in the third he leads a night show. Having worked this way for two years, Ivan abandons this activity and moves to one of the radio stations in St. Petersburg: "Super Radio". Works simultaneously as the host on Petersburg television. After, he works on "Russian Radio" and the MTV channel. He is noticed by Moscow radio stations and invited to work. Ivan moved from St. Petersburg to Moscow and completely devotes himself to a television career.
Now Ivan Urgant is the face of the most popular TV channel in Russia. On the First Channel he leads several projects: "Smak", "Big Difference", "ProjectorPerHilton", together with Vladimir Pozner conducts the program "One-storey America", and then "Tour de France", repeatedly led the "Golden Gramophone" e. In addition to employment on television, Ivan has time to act in films. True, he does not have a lot of films, here are some films with his participation: "From 180 and up", "Tin", "Three and a snowflake", "He, she and I", etc. In 2010, the movie "Yolki" appeared on the TV screen, where Ivan performed the role of businessman Boris, and "Freaks" - the role of Dani. In 2007 Ivan became the winner of the national television award TEFI, also in 2010. only in the "ProjectorPerisHilton".
Despite such popularity, Ivan Urgant prefers not to advertise his private life. He always enjoyed success with the opposite sex. The first school love of Ivan was Natalia Kiknadze, the niece of sports commentator Vasily Kiknadze. With Natalia they studied in one gymnasium and were friends from the eleventh grade. But at the end of the gymnasium Natalia and Ivan leave, she marries a Georgian businessman. And Ivan, already a student at the theater academy, at the age of 18, marries a student of the University of Culture Karine, who is four years older than him. As a student with finances was bad, and he wanted to make presents of his beloved, to support his family, Ivan was forced to work as a loader. Close Ivan were against this union and the marriage soon disintegrated. Working on the radio station, Ivan starts an affair with the well-known in St. Petersburg radio host Dina Dee, but the couple broke up because of Dina's infidelity. On the channel MTV Ivan met with the popular TV host Tatyana Gevorkyan. It is called the civil wife of Urgant. No one doubted that Tatyana's and Ivan's romance would end with a wedding. But Tatyana did not aspire to the stamp in the "passport", she said - this would violate the romance in the relationship. They lived together for several years, then Ivan was invited to work on the First TV Channel in Moscow, and Tatyana stayed in St. Petersburg. She did not want to maintain a relationship and the couple broke up.
Accidentally in St. Petersburg, where Ivan came on business, he met his first love - Natalia Kiknadze, at that time she already had two children. Having talked with Natalia, they understand that their meeting is fatal. Natalia divorces her husband and in 2007 she marries Ivan. In 2008 they have a daughter who is decided to be named after her grandmother - Nina. Ivan loves his family happiness, does not allow himself to flirt on the side. When asked how many times he was married, Ivan replies that he is married once. For his beloved: his wife and daughter Ivan bought a house in Rublevka. His hobby was sports, especially likes to watch American basketball. He likes to read, eat, sleep, although the latter is rare, likes to watch movies. He is fond of photography and everything connected with the theater, he always visits theaters and cinemas in his spare time. He hates rudeness. That's it, the personal life of Urgant Ivan.