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.

Most Known For

Prime Suspect

as Milan Lukic

Invasion

as General Lebedev

The Golden Calf

as Ostap Bender

Attraction

as Colonel Lebedev

Psycho

as Igor

Gogol'

as Yakov Petrovich Guro - investigator

Doctor Zhivago

as Yuri Zhivago

Your Honor

as Mikhail Romanov

Burnt by the Sun 2

as Дмитрий Андреевич Арсентьев - полковник

The Barber of Siberia

as André Tolstoi

Charm

as Леонид Максимович

Doctor Zhivago

Gogol. The Beginning

as Yakov Petrovich Guro - investigator

Burnt by the Sun 2: Exodus

as Mitya Arsentyev

Spoiler

as Anatoliy Gubarev

The State Counsellor

as Erast Petrovich Fandorin

Gogol. A Terrible Vengeance

as Yakov Petrovich Guro - investigator

Prisoner of the Mountains

as Sacha Kostylin

Burnt by the Sun 2: Citadel

as Dmitriy Arsentyev

Burnt by the Sun

as Dimitri (Mitya)