Oleg Menshikov
Actor
Biography
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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.
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As Director
Filmography
Attraction
as Colonel Lebedev 2017
Invasion
as General Lebedev 2020
Burnt by the Sun
as Dimitri (Mitya) 1994
What Men Talk About
as Himself 2010
The Barber of Siberia
as André Tolstoi 1998
Legend No. 17
as Tarasov 2013
Gogol. The Beginning
as Yakov Petrovich Guro - investigator 2017
Gogol. A Terrible Vengeance
as Yakov Petrovich Guro - investigator 2018
East/West
as Aleksei Golovin 1999
Prisoner of the Mountains
as Sacha Kostylin 1996
The Pokrovsky Gates
as Костик 1982
Burnt by the Sun 2: Exodus
as Mitya Arsentyev 2010
The State Counsellor
as Erast Petrovich Fandorin 2005
Burnt by the Sun 2: Citadel
as Dmitriy Arsentyev 2011
Flights in Dreams and in Reality
as Alisa's Friend 1983
Kin
as Kirill 1981
Mommy
as Lyonchik Yuryev 1999