
Oleg Menshikov
Acting
1960-11-08 · Moscow, RSFSR, 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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Oleg Menshikov, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Filmography

Emelianenko
2026 · Movie

Interview
2024 · Movie

Золотой век Зои Богуславской
2024 · Movie

Charm
2024 · Series

Your Honor
2021 · Series

Psycho
2020 · Series

Invasion
2020 · Movie

Gogol
2019 · Series

Gogol. A Terrible Vengeance
2018 · Movie

Gogol. The Beginning
2017 · Movie

Attraction
2017 · Movie

Yankovsky
2015 · Movie

Legend No. 17
2013 · Movie

Burnt by the Sun 2
2011 · Series

Burnt by the Sun 2: Citadel
2011 · Movie

Burnt by the Sun 2: Exodus
2010 · Movie

What Men Talk About
2010 · Movie

Игроки
2006 · Movie

Doctor Zhivago
2006 · Series

Doctor Zhivago
2006 · Movie

The Golden Calf
2006 · Series

The State Counsellor
2005 · Series

The State Counsellor
2005 · Movie

Woe From Wit
2000 · Movie

East/West
1999 · Movie

Mommy
1999 · Movie

The Barber of Siberia
1998 · Movie

Prisoner of the Mountains
1996 · Movie

Burnt by the Sun
1994 · Movie

Dyuba-Dyuba
1992 · Movie

Prime Suspect
1991 · Series

The Hole
1990 · Movie

Limited Life
1989 · Movie

The Stairway
1989 · Movie

Splashes of Champagne
1989 · Movie

These... Three True Cards...
1988 · Movie

Moonsund
1987 · Movie

Speak...
1987 · Movie

My Favorite Clown
1987 · Movie

Through Main Street with an Orchestra
1986 · Movie

The Legend of Salieri
1986 · Movie

Big Volodya, Small Volodya
1985 · Movie

Obstacle Course
1984 · Movie

Капитан Фракасс
1984 · Movie

The Kiss
1983 · Movie

The Pokrovsky Gates
1983 · Movie

Flights in Dreams and in Reality
1983 · Movie

Kin
1982 · Movie

The Birthday of Teresa
1980 · Movie

I Wait and Hope
1980 · Movie

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Series