Oleg Menshikov
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Oleg Menshikov, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
All Movies (41)
- Emelianenko2026 · as self
- Interview2024
- Золотой век Зои Богуславской2024 · as Self
- Invasion2020 · as General Lebedev
- Gogol. A Terrible Vengeance2018 · as Yakov Petrovich Guro - investigator
- Gogol. The Beginning2017 · as Yakov Petrovich Guro - investigator
- Attraction2017 · as Colonel Lebedev
- Yankovsky2015
- Legend No. 172013 · as Tarasov
- Burnt by the Sun 2: Citadel2011 · as Dmitriy Arsentyev
- Burnt by the Sun 2: Exodus2010 · as Mitya Arsentyev
- What Men Talk About2010 · as Himself
- Игроки2006 · as Утешительный
- Doctor Zhivago2006
- The State Counsellor2005 · as Erast Petrovich Fandorin
- Woe From Wit2000 · as Александр Андреевич Чацкий
- East/West1999 · as Aleksei Golovin
- Mommy1999 · as Lyonchik Yuryev
- The Barber of Siberia1998 · as André Tolstoi
- Prisoner of the Mountains1996 · as Sacha Kostylin
- Burnt by the Sun1994 · as Dmitry
- Dyuba-Dyuba1992
- The Hole1990
- Limited Life1989
- The Stairway1989 · as Владимир Пирошников
- Splashes of Champagne1989 · as Sergei
- These... Three True Cards...1988
- Moonsund1987 · as Sergey Artenev
- Speak...1987
- My Favorite Clown1987 · as Sergei Sinitsin
- Through Main Street with an Orchestra1986 · as Korolkov
- The Legend of Salieri1986
- Big Volodya, Small Volodya1985
- Obstacle Course1984 · as Vladimir
- Капитан Фракасс1984 · as Барон де Сигоньяк
- The Kiss1983 · as Merzlyakov
- The Pokrovsky Gates1983 · as Костик
- Flights in Dreams and in Reality1983 · as Alisa's Friend
- Kin1982 · as Kirill
- The Birthday of Teresa1980 · as Хосе
- I Wait and Hope1980
All TV Shows (10)
- Charm2024 · as Леонид Максимович
- Your Honor2021 · as Mikhail Romanov
- Psycho2020 · as Igor
- Gogol2019 · as Yakov Petrovich Guro - investigator
- Burnt by the Sun 22011 · as Дмитрий Андреевич Арсентьев - полковник
- Doctor Zhivago2006 · as Yuri Zhivago
- The Golden Calf2006 · as Ostap Bender
- The State Counsellor2005 · as Erast Petrovich Fandorin
- Prime Suspect1991 · as Milan Lukic
- Spoiler— · as Anatoliy Gubarev