Oleg Menshikov
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
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
50
Gender
Male
Birthday
1960-11-08 (64 years old)
Place of Birth
Moscow, USSR [now Russia]
Acting

2024

Charm as Леонид Максимович

2024

Интервью as Not available

2021

Your Honor as Mikhail Romanov

2020

Invasion as General Lebedev

2020

Psycho as Igor

2019

Gogol' as Yakov Petrovich Guro - investigator

2018

Gogol. A Terrible Vengeance as Yakov Petrovich Guro - investigator

2017

Attraction as Colonel Lebedev

2017

Gogol. The Beginning as Yakov Petrovich Guro - investigator

2015

Yankovsky as Not available

2013

Legend No. 17 as Tarasov

2011

Burnt by the Sun 2: Citadel as Dmitriy Arsentyev

2011

Burnt by the Sun 2 as Дмитрий Андреевич Арсентьев - полковник

2010

Burnt by the Sun 2: Exodus as Mitya Arsentyev

2010

What Men Talk About as Himself

2006

The Golden Calf as Ostap Bender

2006

Doctor Zhivago as Yuri Zhivago

2006

Doctor Zhivago as Not available

2006

Игроки as Утешительный

2005

The State Counsellor as Erast Petrovich Fandorin

2005

The State Counsellor as Erast Petrovich Fandorin

2000

Woe From Wit as Александр Андреевич Чацкий

1999

East/West as Aleksei Golovin

1999

Mommy 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 Dimitri (Mitya)

1992

Dyuba-Dyuba as Not available

1991

Prime Suspect as Milan Lukic

1990

The Hole as Not available

1989

Limited Life as Not available

1989

The Stairway as Владимир Пирошников

1989

Splashes of Champagne as Sergei

1988

These... Three True Cards... as Not available

1987

Moonsund as Sergey Artenev

1986

The Legend of Salieri as Not available

1986

My Favorite Clown as Сергей Синицын

1985

Big Volodya, Small Volodya as Not available

1984

Obstacle Course as Vladimir

1984

Капитан Фракасс as Барон де Сигоньяк

1983

Flights in Dreams and in Reality as Alisa's Friend

1983

The Kiss as Merzlyakov

1982

The Pokrovsky Gates as Костик

1981

Kin as Kirill

1980

I Wait and Hope as Not available

NaN

Spoiler as Anatoliy Gubarev
Crew

2006

Игроки Director

2000

Woe From Wit Director