Oleg Menshikov

Personal Info

Known For Actor

Gender Male

Birthday 1960-11-08 (63 years old)

Place of Birth Moscow, USSR [now Russia]

Also Known As Олег Меньшиков, Oleg Jewgenjewitsch Menschikow, オレグ・メンシコフ

Oleg Menshikov

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.

Known For

Actor

2024
Charm

as Леонид Максимович

2021
Your Honor

as Mikhail Romanov

2020
Invasion

as General Lebedev

2020
Psycho

as Igor

2019
Gogol'

as Yakov Petrovich Guro - investigator

2018
Gogol. A Terrible Vengeance

as Yakov Petrovich Guro - investigator

2017
Gogol. The Beginning

as Yakov Petrovich Guro - investigator

2017
Attraction

as Colonel Lebedev

2013
Legend No. 17

as Tarasov

2011
Burnt by the Sun 2: Citadel

as Dmitriy Arsentyev

2011
Burnt by the Sun 2

as Дмитрий Андреевич Арсентьев - полковник

2010
Burnt by the Sun 2: Exodus

as Mitya Arsentyev

2010
2006
Игроки

as Утешительный

2006
Doctor Zhivago

as Yuri Zhivago

2006
The Golden Calf

as Ostap Bender

2005
The State Counsellor

as Erast Petrovich Fandorin

2005
The State Counsellor

as Erast Petrovich Fandorin

2000
Woe From Wit

as Александр Андреевич Чацкий

1999
East/West

as Aleksei Golovin

1999
Mommy

as Lyonchik Yuryev

1998
The Barber of Siberia

as André Tolstoi

1996
Prisoner of the Mountains

as Sacha Kostylin

1994
Burnt by the Sun

as Dimitri (Mitya)

1991
Prime Suspect

as Milan Lukic

1989
The Stairway

as Владимир Пирошников

1989
1987
Moonsund

as Sergey Artenev

1986
My favorite clown

as Сергей Синицын

1984
Obstacle Course

as Vladimir

1984
Капитан Фракасс

as Барон де Сигоньяк

1983
The Kiss

as Мерзляков

1983
The Pokrovsky Gates

as Костик

1982
1981
Kin

as Kirill

Director

2006
Игроки

as Director

2000
Woe From Wit

as Director