Kirill Nagiev on brother Mark: why Dmitry Nagiev's family doubts an acting career

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In 2025, Dmitry Nagiev surprised fans by revealing he has a secret teenage son: 16-year-old Mark. The actor has said the boy closely follows his work and is genuinely interested in cinema. Now, for the first time, the elder son, Kirill Nagiev, has spoken openly about his brother.

At the premiere of a new series, Kirill said Mark has decided to continue the family tradition and become an actor. He added that neither he nor their father is thrilled with that choice. According to him, they are trying to explain the profession’s demands and its instability. It is a warning often heard in show business, and the Nagievs are no exception.

Kirill noted that his brother is resolute: Mark plans to apply to acting school despite the family’s efforts to dissuade him. He also emphasized an important nuance—Mark will have to study not as “Dmitry Nagiev,” but as a stage actor, and those are two fundamentally different realities.

That leaves the family with a difficult choice: support Mark’s dream or keep walking him through the risks of the craft. Judging by Kirill’s account, talented children do often follow in their parents’ footsteps, and the tension between ambition and caution feels almost inevitable in a household used to the spotlight.