Oleg Menshikov
Actor
November 8, 1960 (65 years)
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Oleg Evgenyevich Menshikov (born 8 November 1960) is a Soviet and Russian entertainer. He is a film and theatre actor, singer and director. He started his film career in the early 1980s playing in the comedy Pokrovskie vorota and in Nikita Mikhalkov's Rodnya. In 1993, Menshikov collaborated again with Mikhalkov in their most famous film, Burnt by the Sun. Portraying a manipulative and suicidal NKVD agent during Stalin's Great Purge, Menshikov's performance brought him to the attention of a wide international audience. The film won the Grand Prize at the Cannes Film Festival and the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. Menshikov appeared in Régis Wargnier's 1999 film, East-West with Sandrine Bonnaire and Catherine Deneuve. Menshikov played the hero of Mikhalkov's 1998 The Barber of Siberia, with Julia Ormond playing his mistress. He appeared as Erast Fandorin in the 2005 film The Councillor of State. He filled the role of Ostap Bender in the 2006 Russian mini-series based on The Little Golden Calf.
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Oleg Evgenyevich Menshikov (born 8 November 1960) is a Soviet and Russian entertainer. He is a film and theatre actor, singer and director. He started his film career in the early 1980s playing in the comedy Pokrovskie vorota and in Nikita Mikhalkov's Rodnya. In 1993, Menshikov collaborated again with Mikhalkov in their most famous film, Burnt by the Sun. Portraying a manipulative and suicidal NKVD agent during Stalin's Great Purge, Menshikov's performance brought him to the attention of a wide international audience. The film won the Grand Prize at the Cannes Film Festival and the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. Menshikov appeared in Régis Wargnier's 1999 film, East-West with Sandrine Bonnaire and Catherine Deneuve. Menshikov played the hero of Mikhalkov's 1998 The Barber of Siberia, with Julia Ormond playing his mistress. He appeared as Erast Fandorin in the 2005 film The Councillor of State. He filled the role of Ostap Bender in the 2006 Russian mini-series based on The Little Golden Calf.
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Known For
Filmography
| 2023 | Prelest · as Леонид Максимович |
| 2021 | Your Honor (RU) · as Mikhail Romanov |
| 2020 | Psycho · as Igor |
| 2020 | Attraction 2: Invasion · as General LebedevOn Plex |
| 2018 | Gogol: A Terrible Vengeance · as Yakov Petrovich Guro - Investigator |
| 2018 | Gogol. Viy · as Guro |
| 2017 | Gogol · as Yakov Petrovich Guro - Investigator |
| 2017 | Gogol. Nachalo · as Yakov Petrovich Guro - Investigator |
| 2017 | Attraction · as Colonel LebedevOn Plex |
| 2015 | |
| 2013 | Legend No. 17 · as Tarasov |
| 2011 | Utomlennye solntsem 2 · as Дмитрий Андреевич Арсентьев - Полковник |
| 2011 | Utomlennye solntsem 2: Tsitadel · as Dmitriy Arsentyev |
| 2010 | Burnt by the Sun 2 · as Mitya Arsentyev |
| 2006 | Doktor Zhivago · as Yuri Zhivago |
| 2006 | |
| 2006 | Zolotoy telyonok · as Ostap Bender |
| 2005 | Статский советник · as Erast Petrovich Fandorin |
| 2005 | The State Counsellor · as Erast Petrovich Fandorin |
| 1999 | East/West · as Aleksei Golovin |
| 1999 | Mama · as Lyonchik Yuryev |
| 1998 | The Barber of Siberia · as André Tolstoi |
| 1996 | Prisoner of the Mountains · as Sacha Kostylin |
| 1994 | Burnt by the Sun · as Dmitry |
| 1992 | |
| 1991 | Prime Suspect · as Milan LukicOn Plex |
| 1991 | |
| 1990 | Lestnitsa · as Владимир Пирошников |
| 1989 | |
| 1989 | Sprays of Champagne · as Sergei |
| 1988 | |
| 1988 | Moonzund · as Sergey Artenev |
| 1987 | Moy lyubimyy kloun · as Sergei Sinitsin |
| 1986 | Михайло Ломоносов · as Dmitry Vinogradov |
| 1986 | Po glavnoy ulitse s orkestrom · as Korolkov |
| 1983 | Potseluy · as Merzlyakov |
| 1983 | Pokrov Gates · as Костик |
| 1983 | Flights in Dreams and in Reality · as Alisa's Friend |
| 1982 | Family Relations · as Kirill |
| 2024 | Золотой век Зои Богуславской · as Self |
| 2023 | Emelianenko · as Self |
| 2012 | Urgant Show · as Self - Guest |
| 2010 | What Men Talk About · as Himself |
| 2005 | Comedy Club (Russia) · as Self - Guest |
| 1968 | Vremya · as Self - People's Artist Of The Russian Federation |