Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthdate
1960-11-08 (Age: 66)
Place of Birth
Moscow, USSR [now Russia]
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.
Filmography (41)
Emelianenko
2026
Interview
2024
Золотой век Зои Богуславской
2024
Invasion
2020
Gogol. A Terrible Vengeance
2018
Gogol. The Beginning
2017
Attraction
2017
Yankovsky
2015
Legend No. 17
2013
Burnt by the Sun 2: Citadel
2011
Burnt by the Sun 2: Exodus
2010
What Men Talk About
2010
Игроки
2006
Doctor Zhivago
2006
