
Oleg Menshikov
- Date of Birth: 1960-11-08
- Place of Birth: Moscow, USSR [now Russia]
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 fil... 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.

Psycho
Drama • 2020 November

The State Counsellor
Action, Crime, Mystery • 2005 April

Splashes of Champagne
Drama, War • 1989 February

Mommy
Drama • 1999 March

The Kiss
Romance, TV Movie • 1983 October

Doctor Zhivago
• 2006 April

Burnt by the Sun 2: Exodus
Drama, War • 2010 April

Limited Life
Drama • 1989 June

Gogol'
Mystery, Drama, Action & Adventure, Sci-Fi & Fantasy • 2019 March

Burnt by the Sun 2: Citadel
Drama, War • 2011 May