Oleg Menshikov
Acting
Born: November 8, 1960 (age 65) · Moscow, USSR [now Russia]
Highest Rated
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
Attraction
2017
Invasion
2020
Burnt by the Sun
1994
What Men Talk About
2010
The Barber of Siberia
1998
Legend No. 17
2013
Gogol. The Beginning
2017
Prime Suspect
1991
Gogol. A Terrible Vengeance
2018
East/West
1999
Prisoner of the Mountains
1996
The Pokrovsky Gates
1983
Photos (2)
Movies (38)
Invasion
General Lebedev
Attraction
Colonel Lebedev
Doctor Zhivago
2006
Gogol. The Beginning
Yakov Petrovich Guro - investigator
The Barber of Siberia
André Tolstoi
Burnt by the Sun
Dmitry
Burnt by the Sun 2: Exodus
Mitya Arsentyev
Burnt by the Sun 2: Citadel
Dmitriy Arsentyev
Flights in Dreams and in Reality
Alisa's Friend
East/West
Aleksei Golovin
Gogol. A Terrible Vengeance
Yakov Petrovich Guro - investigator
The Hole
1990
The Birthday of Teresa
Хосе
Капитан Фракасс
Барон де Сигоньяк
Prisoner of the Mountains
Sacha Kostylin
Limited Life
1989
The Kiss
Merzlyakov
The Pokrovsky Gates
Костик
Speak...
1987
Woe From Wit
Александр Андреевич Чацкий
Kin
Kirill
Игроки
Утешительный
Big Volodya, Small Volodya
1985
The State Counsellor
Erast Petrovich Fandorin
These... Three True Cards...
1988
The Stairway
Владимир Пирошников
Through Main Street with an Orchestra
Korolkov
My Favorite Clown
Sergei Sinitsin
Yankovsky
2015
Legend No. 17
Tarasov
Mommy
Lyonchik Yuryev
Moonsund
Sergey Artenev
Splashes of Champagne
Sergei
Interview
2024
Obstacle Course
Vladimir
I Wait and Hope
1980
Dyuba-Dyuba
1992
The Legend of Salieri
1986
TV Shows (9)
Prime Suspect
Milan Lukic · 1 eps
The Golden Calf
Ostap Bender · 8 eps
Psycho
Igor · 8 eps
Burnt by the Sun 2
Дмитрий Андреевич Арсентьев - полковник · 13 eps
The State Counsellor
Erast Petrovich Fandorin · 4 eps
Gogol
Yakov Petrovich Guro - investigator · 8 eps
Doctor Zhivago
Юрий Живаго · 11 eps
Your Honor
Mikhail Romanov · 8 eps
Charm
Леонид Максимович · 6 eps
