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.
Acted in 48
2020s
- 2024
Interview
Movie
Charm
Леонид Максимович · 6 episodes
- 2021
Your Honor
Mikhail Romanov · 8 episodes
- 2020
Psycho
Igor · 8 episodes
2010s
- 2019
Gogol
Yakov Petrovich Guro - investigator · 8 episodes
- 2018
- 2017
- 2015
Yankovsky
Movie
- 2013
Legend No. 17
Tarasov
- 2011
Burnt by the Sun 2
Дмитрий Андреевич Арсентьев - полковник · 13 episodes
- 2010
Burnt by the Sun 2: Exodus
Mitya Arsentyev
2000s
- 2006
Игроки
Утешительный
Doctor Zhivago
Юрий Живаго · 11 episodes
Doctor Zhivago
Movie
The Golden Calf
Ostap Bender · 8 episodes
- 2005
The State Counsellor
Erast Petrovich Fandorin · 4 episodes
The State Counsellor
Erast Petrovich Fandorin
- 2000
Woe From Wit
Александр Андреевич Чацкий
1990s
- 1999
East/West
Aleksei Golovin
Mommy
Lyonchik Yuryev
- 1998
- 1996
Prisoner of the Mountains
Sacha Kostylin
- 1994
Burnt by the Sun
Dmitry
- 1992
Dyuba-Dyuba
Movie
- 1991
- 1990
The Hole
Movie
1980s
- 1989
Limited Life
Alexey Rudakov
The Stairway
Владимир Пирошников
Splashes of Champagne
Sergei
- 1988
These... Three True Cards...
Movie
- 1987
Moonsund
Sergey Artenev
Speak...
Movie
My Favorite Clown
Sergei Sinitsin
- 1986
Through Main Street with an Orchestra
Korolkov
The Legend of Salieri
Movie
- 1985
Big Volodya, Small Volodya
Movie
- 1984
Obstacle Course
Vladimir
Капитан Фракасс
Барон де Сигоньяк
- 1983
The Kiss
Merzlyakov
The Pokrovsky Gates
Костик
Flights in Dreams and in Reality
Alisa's Friend
- 1982
Kin
Kirill
- 1980
The Birthday of Teresa
Хосе
I Wait and Hope
Movie
No release date
Spoiler
Anatoliy Gubarev · 10 episodes
Directed 2
2000s
- 2006
Игроки
Director
- 2000
Woe From Wit
Director
Appearances3
2020s
- 2026
Emelianenko
self
- 2024
Золотой век Зои Богуславской
Self
2010s
- 2010
What Men Talk About
Himself