Valery Nikolaev

Valery Nikolaev
Born	Valery Valeryevich Nikolaev (1965-08-23) 23 August 1965 Moscow, RSFSR, USSR
Occupation	Actor, director
Years active	1987-presents
Spouse(s)	Natalya Pirogova (m. 1984; div. 1988) Irina Apeksimova (m. 1988; div. 2001) Lyubov Tikhomirova (m. 2008; div. 2009) Elmira Zemskova (m. 2014)
Children	1

Valery Valeryevich Nikolaev (Russian: Валерий Валерьевич Николаев; born 23 August 1965) is a Russian film and theater actor, director.

Biography

Gifted actor and dancer Valery Nikolaev has choreographed five productions at the Chekhov MKhAT theater. He choreographed the musical My Fair Lady (Moscow, 2000), as well. In 1997 he traveled to Hollywood in 1997 to play in Phillip Noyce's The Saint. Nikolaev graduated from MKhAT, where he studied under the eminent Oleg Tabakov. It was during his studies with Tabakov that he met his future wife, Irina Apeksimova. After graduation, Nikolaev performed with the Chekhov MKhAT theater. Nikolaev is a serious dancer who excels at rock and tap. He trained at a university in Florida, where he received a certificate in tap dancing.

Selected filmography

He performed in more than thirty films since 1987.

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1991	Niagara	Pyotr Krasnovitsky
	Leg		original title Noga
1992	Love on request	Aleks
	Ochen vernaya zhena	Zhenya Monahov
	Melochi zhizni	Gosha	Television series
1993	Nastya	Sasha Pichugin
1994	Life and Extraordinary Adventures of Private Ivan Chonkin	Balashov
1995	Shirli-Myrli	Step performer
1996	Thief Takers		Television series (episode Black Russian)
1997	The Saint	Ilya Tretiak
	Aberration	Yury Romanov
	U Turn	Mr. Arkady
2000	Den rozhdeniya Burzhuya	Burzhuy	Television series
2004	The Terminal	Milodragovich
2005	Mirror Wars	Boris
2006	Vedma (The Power of Fear)	Ivan
2011	The 5th Execution	Sanya
2012	The Ballad of Uhlans	De Vitt

External links

• Valery Nikolaev at the Internet Movie Database
• Russian Wikipedia