# Valery Nikolaev

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{{Short description|Russian actor}}
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{{Infobox person
| name         = Valery Nikolaev
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| birth_name   = Valery Valeryevich Nikolaev
| birth_date   = {{Birth date and age| df=yes|1965|08|23}}
| birth_place  = [Moscow](/source/Moscow), [Russian SFSR](/source/Russian_Soviet_Federative_Socialist_Republic), [Soviet Union](/source/Soviet_Union)
| occupation   = Actor, director, TV
| years_active = 1987–2021, 2025–present
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'''Valery Valeryevich Nikolaev''' ({{langx|ru|Валерий Валерьевич Николаев}}; born 23 August 1965) is a [Soviet](/source/Soviet_Union) and Russian film and theater actor, director.

==Career==
Nikolaev has choreographed five productions at the Chekhov MKhAT theater. He choreographed the musical ''My Fair Lady''  ([Moscow](/source/Moscow), 2000), as well. In 1997, he traveled to Hollywood to play in Phillip Noyce's ''The Saint''. Nikolaev graduated from MKhAT, where he studied under [Oleg Tabakov](/source/Oleg_Tabakov). After graduation, Nikolaev performed with the Chekhov MKhAT theater.

==Selected filmography==
He performed in more than thirty films since 1987.
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|+ Film
|-
! Year
! Title
! Role
! class="unsortable" | Notes
|-
| rowspan="2" | 1991
| ''Niagara''
| Pyotr Krasnovitsky
|
|-
| ''Leg''
| Unknown 
| original title ''Noga''
|-
| rowspan="3" |  1992
| ''Love on Request''
| Aleks
|
|-
| ''Ochen vernaya zhena''
| Zhenya Monahov
|
|-
| ''[Melochi zhizni](/source/Melochi_zhizni)''
| Gosha
| Television series
|-
|  1993
| ''[Nastya](/source/Nastya_(film))''
| Sasha Pichugin
|
|-
| 1994
| ''[Life and Extraordinary Adventures of Private Ivan Chonkin](/source/Life_and_Extraordinary_Adventures_of_Private_Ivan_Chonkin)''
| Balashov
|
|-
| 1995
| ''[Shirli-Myrli](/source/Shirli-Myrli)''
| Step Performer
|
|-
| 1996
| ''[Thief Takers](/source/Thief_Takers)''
| Unknown 
| Television series (episode ''Black Russian'')
|-
| rowspan="3" | 1997
|''[The Saint](/source/The_Saint_(1997_film))''
| Ilya Tretiak
|
|-
| ''[Aberration](/source/Aberration_(film))''
| Yuri Romanov
|
|-
| ''[U Turn](/source/U_Turn_(1997_film))''
| Mr. Arkady
|
|-
| 2000
| ''Den rozhdeniya Burzhuya''
| Burzhuy
| Television series
|-
| 2003
| ''Tor zum Himmel''
| Alexej
| German movie
|-
| 2004
| ''[The Terminal](/source/The_Terminal)''
| Milodragovich
|
|-
| 2005
| ''[Mirror Wars](/source/Mirror_Wars)''
| Boris
|
|-
| 2006
| ''[Vedma (The Power of Fear)](/source/Vedma_(The_Power_of_Fear))''
| Ivan
|
|-
| 2011
| ''[The 5th Execution](/source/The_5th_Execution)''
| Sanya
|
|-
| 2012
| ''[The Ballad of Uhlans](/source/The_Ballad_of_Uhlans)''
| De Vitt
|
|}

==External links==
*{{IMDb name|631792}}
*[Russian Wikipedia](/source/%3Aru%3A%D0%9D%D0%B8%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%B0%D0%B5%D0%B2%2C_%D0%92%D0%B0%D0%BB%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%B9_%D0%92%D0%B0%D0%BB%D0%B5%D1%80%D1%8C%D0%B5%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%87)

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Category:Russian male film actors
Category:Soviet male film actors
Category:1965 births
Category:Living people
Category:Male actors from Moscow
Category:Russian male television actors
Category:Russian male stage actors
Category:20th-century Russian male actors
Category:21st-century Russian male actors
Category:Moscow Art Theatre School alumni

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