20 Facts About Ivan Urgant

Ivan Andreyevich Urgant was born on 16 April 1978 and is a Russian television host, presenter and actor.

Ivan Urgant's best known roles in film are Boris in the Yolki series and as Danila in Lucky Trouble.

Ivan Urgant is the chairman of the board of trustees of the Friends Charitable Foundation.

Ivan Urgant was born in Leningrad, USSR into a family of actors, the son of Andrei Ivan Urgant and Valeriya Kiseleva.

Ivan Urgant's Estonian surname Urgant comes from Nina's father, Nikolai Andreyevich Urgant, an NKVD Major from Luga and a son of Rapina-born Hindrik Urgand.

Ivan Urgant is of mixed Russian, Estonian, and Jewish heritage.

Ivan Urgant studied at the Leningrad Children's Music School No 18, at the Gymnasium at the State Russian Museum.

Ivan Urgant graduated from Saint Petersburg State Theatre Arts Academy.

Ivan Urgant worked as a waiter, bartender, and then as a host in nightly shows in clubs.

In 1999, Ivan Urgant managed to get a job at a St Petersburg radio station.

In May 2001, Ivan Urgant first appeared on Moscow television, on the television channel MTV Russia.

Ivan Urgant received an invitation to a casting at a time when Olga Shelest and Anton Komolov were looking for a couple of hosts to team up with on the show Cheerful Morning.

Ivan Urgant has been working on Channel One since 2005.

Previously, Ivan Urgant was a TV presenter in the programs Smak, Evening Ivan Urgant and Prozhektorperiskhilton.

In 2007,2009,2010,2011,2014,2015 and 2016, Ivan Urgant was awarded TEFI.

In December 2017, Ivan Urgant was one of the hosts of the 2018 FIFA World Cup Team Draw Show, with Gary Lineker and Maria Komandnaya.

In 2024, Ivan Urgant played the lead role in the drama film You Cried in Your Sleep, which was produced by Aleksandr Sokurov.

Since 2011, Ivan Urgant has co-owned a restaurant in Moscow, The Sad Garden, with Aleksandr Tsekalo.

Ivan Urgant has been a board member and co-owner of the real estate agency W1Evans since 2016.

In 2011 Ivan renewed his own singing career and now is acting under the pseudonym Grisha Urgant.