Oleg Menshikov

Known for ActingBorn 1960-11-08 (age 65)Moscow, USSR [now Russia]

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.Read more

Movies & web series

Yankovsky

These... Three True Cards...

The Golden Calf

Prime Suspect

Your Honor

What Men Talk About

The Pokrovsky Gates

Invasion

The Barber of Siberia

Legend No. 17

Big Volodya, Small Volodya

Burnt by the Sun

Attraction

I Wait and Hope

Through Main Street with an Orchestra

Prisoner of the Mountains

Gogol. A Terrible Vengeance

East/West

Gogol. The Beginning

Flights in Dreams and in Reality

Psycho

Kin

Splashes of Champagne

Mommy

The State Counsellor

Doctor Zhivago

Charm

The Kiss

Burnt by the Sun 2: Exodus

The Hole

Limited Life

Gogol

Burnt by the Sun 2: Citadel

Obstacle Course

The State Counsellor

My Favorite Clown

The Stairway

Moonsund

Dyuba-Dyuba

Капитан Фракасс

Burnt by the Sun 2

Emelianenko

Золотой век Зои Богуславской

Interview

Игроки

Doctor Zhivago

Woe From Wit

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