Oleg Menshikov
Born: 1960-11-08 in Moscow, USSR [now Russia]
Known For: Acting
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.
Filmography
2026
- Emelianenko as self
2024
- Charm as Леонид Максимович
- Золотой век Зои Богуславской as Self
- Interview
2021
- Your Honor as Mikhail Romanov
2019
- Gogol as Yakov Petrovich Guro - investigator
2018
- Gogol. A Terrible Vengeance as Yakov Petrovich Guro - investigator
2017
- Attraction as Colonel Lebedev
- Gogol. The Beginning as Yakov Petrovich Guro - investigator
2015
2013
- Legend No. 17 as Tarasov
2011
- Burnt by the Sun 2 as Дмитрий Андреевич Арсентьев - полковник
- Burnt by the Sun 2: Citadel as Dmitriy Arsentyev
2010
- What Men Talk About as Himself
- Burnt by the Sun 2: Exodus as Mitya Arsentyev
2006
- The Golden Calf as Ostap Bender
- Doctor Zhivago as Yuri Zhivago
- Игроки as Утешительный
- Doctor Zhivago
2005
- The State Counsellor as Erast Petrovich Fandorin
- The State Counsellor as Erast Petrovich Fandorin
2000
- Woe From Wit as Александр Андреевич Чацкий
1998
- The Barber of Siberia as André Tolstoi
1996
- Prisoner of the Mountains as Sacha Kostylin
1994
- Burnt by the Sun as Dmitry
1992
1991
- Prime Suspect as Milan Lukic
1990
1989
- The Stairway as Владимир Пирошников
- Splashes of Champagne as Sergei
- Limited Life
1987
- Moonsund as Sergey Artenev
- My Favorite Clown as Sergei Sinitsin
- Speak...
1986
1984
- Капитан Фракасс as Барон де Сигоньяк
- Obstacle Course as Vladimir
1983
- Flights in Dreams and in Reality as Alisa's Friend
- The Pokrovsky Gates as Костик
- The Kiss as Merzlyakov
1982
- Kin as Kirill