In the third grade, the boy was taken to the sports group. He studied judo and sambo there. However, he didn’t make conspicuous achievements in this sphere. After six months of training Nagiev was expelled with such words: "Take your son, he is constantly sniveling", however, the boy came back later and took the second prize-winning place at the city championship.
After school Dmitriy Nagiyev entered Ulyanov Institute of Electrical Engineering at the Department of Automatics and Computer Science. After graduation the future actor went to defend his motherland in the army.
After the military service, Dmitriy Nagiyev decided to cast in his lot with acting. However, he joined the acting department, because he did not know where intelligence agents enter. The competition for the course was very high, he passed over 155 competitors, aspiring for one position. So Nagiyev began his studies at the Cherkasov’s State University of Theatre in Leningrad. Nevetheless the studies were not easy. After the first year the master threatened to expel the student, but this never happened.
In the end Dmitry Nagiyev was appreciated as the best graduating student of the year.
Dmitriy Nagiyev was working by profession during his studies. He was playing on the stage of St. Petersburg’s theater "Vremya". The temple of art was collaborating with the Germans, who were choosing three persons on the final performance. Nagiyev found himself right among them. Then the actor spent two years in Frankfort on the Main.
Returning from Germany, Dmitriy Nagiyev began to work on the radio "Modern". It started "Full modern" program on regional TV. It has become a prerequisite for the organization of the popular comedy-show "Modern Ostorozhno" with Rost and Nagiev. The whole project is based on the two actors, their jokes and stories that were "pulled" from the guests.
In 1997 Dmitriy Nagiyev makes his own show in the dancing-hall "Kontinent" in St. Petersburg. He announces competitions, brings to the theater halls, as well as a comic auction.
Nagiyev was working very hard in 1998. He began to play in movies. The first his film was the "Purgatory". The actor plays the role of Chechen commander there.
Then in 1999 the actor succeeded in the casting and became one of the main characters of the popular series "Kamenskaya", based on Aleksandra Marinina’s stories. After Nagiyev had established a reputation as a serious actor, cooperation offers poured down from all sides. "Uboynaya sila" and "Krot" are followed then. Nagiev was not also bypassed by Bulgakov's novel "Master and Margarita". He also took part in the filming. Dmitriy played Baron Meigel and Judah. Then there was work on the two-part film "Novogodniy killer".The actor has played two roles at once there: the role of killer Skripach(Violinist) and of the real violinist, a prize-winner of various awards.
One of the latest works by Dmitry Nagiyev was the role in "Samyi luchshiy film".
The last few years Dmitriy Nagiyev has been working actively in the theater. Performances "Kysya", "Milashka" and "Decameron" are in constant demand of the public.
In early 2007 there was presentation of psychological action-drama "Territoriya" in St. Petersburg. Dmitriy Nagiyev got the main role.
Dmitry Nagiyev has time to work on television in spite of the terrible time trouble, employment in movie and on stage. He participated regularly in New Year’s entertainment parties and these days it’s simply impossible to imagine a program "Bolshie gonki" on the 1st Channel without him.