Oleg Menshikov
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
ActingBirthday
November 8, 1960Gender
MaleKnown Movie Credits
39Place of birth
Moscow, USSR [now Russia]Also known as
Олег Меньшиков, Oleg Jewgenjewitsch Menschikow, オレグ・メンシコフCast credits
Big Volodya, Small Volodya
What Men Talk About
HimselfEast/West
Aleksei GolovinThe Pokrovsky Gates
КостикBurnt by the Sun 2: Exodus
Mitya ArsentyevBurnt by the Sun 2: Citadel
Dmitriy ArsentyevBurnt by the Sun
Dimitri (Mitya)The Barber of Siberia
André TolstoiThe Stairway
Владимир ПирошниковFlights in Dreams and in Reality
Alisa's FriendMoonsund
Sergey ArtenevKin
KirillPrisoner of the Mountains
Sacha KostylinThese... Three True Cards...
The State Counsellor
Erast Petrovich FandorinMommy
Lyonchik YuryevLegend No. 17
TarasovMy favorite clown
Сергей СиницынYankovsky
Limited Life
Doctor Zhivago