Oleg Menshikov
Actor
Born November 8, 1960 in Moscow, USSR [now Russia]
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.
Filmography
Spoiler
Anatoliy Gubarev
Emelianenko
self
Interview
Золотой век Зои Богуславской
Self
Charm
Леонид Максимович
Your Honor
Mikhail Romanov
Psycho
Igor
Invasion
General Lebedev
Gogol
Yakov Petrovich Guro - investigator
Gogol. A Terrible Vengeance
Yakov Petrovich Guro - investigator
Gogol. The Beginning
Yakov Petrovich Guro - investigator
Attraction
Colonel Lebedev
Yankovsky
Legend No. 17
Tarasov
Burnt by the Sun 2
Дмитрий Андреевич Арсентьев - полковник
Burnt by the Sun 2: Citadel
Dmitriy Arsentyev
Burnt by the Sun 2: Exodus
Mitya Arsentyev
What Men Talk About
Himself
Игроки
Утешительный
Doctor Zhivago
Yuri Zhivago
Doctor Zhivago
The Golden Calf
Ostap Bender
The State Counsellor
Erast Petrovich Fandorin
The State Counsellor
Erast Petrovich Fandorin
Woe From Wit
Александр Андреевич Чацкий
East/West
Aleksei Golovin
Mommy
Lyonchik Yuryev
The Barber of Siberia
André Tolstoi
Prisoner of the Mountains
Sacha Kostylin
Burnt by the Sun
Dmitry
Dyuba-Dyuba
Prime Suspect
Milan Lukic
The Hole
Limited Life
The Stairway
Владимир Пирошников
Splashes of Champagne
Sergei
These... Three True Cards...
Moonsund
Sergey Artenev
Speak...
My Favorite Clown
Sergei Sinitsin
Through Main Street with an Orchestra
Korolkov
The Legend of Salieri
Big Volodya, Small Volodya
Obstacle Course
Vladimir
Капитан Фракасс
Барон де Сигоньяк
The Kiss
Merzlyakov
The Pokrovsky Gates
Костик
Flights in Dreams and in Reality
Alisa's Friend
Kin
Kirill
The Birthday of Teresa
Хосе
I Wait and Hope