

Oleg Menshikov
Acting
November 8, 1960
Moscow, USSR [now Russia]
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.
The Filmography


Gogol. A Terrible Vengeance

Gogol. The Beginning

Attraction

Burnt by the Sun 2: Citadel

Burnt by the Sun 2: Exodus

The State Counsellor

East/West

The Barber of Siberia

Prisoner of the Mountains

Burnt by the Sun

Dyuba-Dyuba

The Hole

Limited Life

The Stairway

Moonsund

Through Main Street with an Orchestra

Obstacle Course

Flights in Dreams and in Reality
