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

Attraction

as Colonel Lebedev

Invasion

as General Lebedev

Burnt by the Sun

as Dimitri (Mitya)

What Men Talk About

as Himself

The Barber of Siberia

as André Tolstoi

Legend No. 17

as Tarasov

Gogol. The Beginning

as Yakov Petrovich Guro - investigator

Prime Suspect

as Milan Lukic

Gogol. A Terrible Vengeance

as Yakov Petrovich Guro - investigator

East/West

as Aleksei Golovin