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
2024
- Золотой век Зои Богуславской as self
- Charm as Леонид Максимович
- Интервью
2023
- Emelianenko as self
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: Citadel as Dmitriy Arsentyev
- Burnt by the Sun 2 as Дмитрий Андреевич Арсентьев - полковник
2010
- Burnt by the Sun 2: Exodus as Mitya Arsentyev
- What Men Talk About as Himself
2006
- Doctor Zhivago
- The Golden Calf as Ostap Bender
- Doctor Zhivago as Yuri Zhivago
- Игроки as Утешительный
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 Dimitri (Mitya)
1992
1991
- Prime Suspect as Milan Lukic
1990
1989
- The Stairway as Владимир Пирошников
- Limited Life
- Splashes of Champagne as Sergei
1986
- Through Main Street with an Orchestra as Korolkov
- The Legend of Salieri
- My Favorite Clown as Сергей Синицын
1984
- Obstacle Course as Vladimir
- Капитан Фракасс as Барон де Сигоньяк
1983
- Flights in Dreams and in Reality as Alisa's Friend
- The Kiss as Merzlyakov
1982
- The Pokrovsky Gates as Костик
1981
- Kin as Kirill