Oleg Menshikov
Acting • Born 1960-11-08
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
51 credits
Big Volodya, Small Volodya
Movie • 1985
What Men Talk About
Movie • 2010
Himself
East/West
Movie • 1999
Aleksei Golovin
The Pokrovsky Gates
Movie • 1983
Костик
Burnt by the Sun 2: Exodus
Movie • 2010
Mitya Arsentyev
Burnt by the Sun 2: Citadel
Movie • 2011
Dmitriy Arsentyev
Burnt by the Sun
Movie • 1994
Dmitri
The Barber of Siberia
Movie • 1998
André Tolstoi
The Stairway
Movie • 1989
Владимир Пирошников
Flights in Dreams and in Reality
Movie • 1983
Alisa's Friend
Moonsund
Movie • 1987
Sergey Artenev
Kin
Movie • 1982
Kirill
Prisoner of the Mountains
Movie • 1996
Sacha Kostylin
These... Three True Cards...
Movie • 1988
The State Counsellor
Movie • 2005
Erast Petrovich Fandorin
Mommy
Movie • 1999
Lyonchik Yuryev
Legend No. 17
Movie • 2013
Tarasov
My Favorite Clown
Movie • 1987
Sergei Sinitsin
Yankovsky
Movie • 2015
Limited Life
Movie • 1989
Doctor Zhivago
Movie • 2006
Obstacle Course
Movie • 1984
Vladimir
Attraction
Movie • 2017
Colonel Lebedev
The Hole
Movie • 1990
Through Main Street with an Orchestra
Movie • 1986
Korolkov
The Kiss
Movie • 1983
Merzlyakov
Золотой век Зои Богуславской
Movie • 2024
Self
Dyuba-Dyuba
Movie • 1992
Gogol. The Beginning
Movie • 2017
Yakov Petrovich Guro - investigator
Игроки
Movie • 2006
Утешительный
Woe From Wit
Movie • 2000
Александр Андреевич Чацкий
Invasion
Movie • 2020
General Lebedev
Gogol. A Terrible Vengeance
Movie • 2018
Yakov Petrovich Guro - investigator
I Wait and Hope
Movie • 1980
Splashes of Champagne
Movie • 1989
Sergei
Капитан Фракасс
Movie • 1984
Барон де Сигоньяк
The Legend of Salieri
Movie • 1986
Интервью
Movie • 2024
Speak...
Movie • 1987
The Birthday of Teresa
Movie • 1980
Хосе
Emelianenko
Movie • 2026
self
The State Counsellor
TV • 2005
Erast Petrovich Fandorin
Your Honor
TV • 2021
Mikhail Romanov
Prime Suspect
TV • 1991
Milan Lukic
The Golden Calf
TV • 2006
Ostap Bender
Charm
TV • 2024
Леонид Максимович
Gogol'
TV • 2019
Yakov Petrovich Guro - investigator
Burnt by the Sun 2
TV • 2011
Дмитрий Андреевич Арсентьев - полковник
Doctor Zhivago
TV • 2006
Yuri Zhivago
Psycho
TV • 2020
Igor
Spoiler
TV
Anatoliy Gubarev