Actor Nikolay Stanoev was born in 1981 in Sofia, but spent his childhood and adolescence in Vidin, where his parents worked as medical specialists, his father in the Vidin Hospital, and his mother in a kindergarten. He completed his secondary education at the "Lyuben Karavelov" High School - Vidin, majoring in "Business Administration", and his higher education at the "Neofit Rilski" Southwestern University - Blagoevgrad, majoring in "Acting for Dramatic Theater" in the class of Prof. Encho Halachev in 2003.