Oleg Menshikov
Known for Acting · 51 credits
- Born
- 1960-11-08 (age 65)
- Place of birth
- Moscow, USSR [now Russia]
- Also known as
- Oleg Jewgenjewitsch Menschikow · オレグ・メンシコフ · О. Меньшиков · O. 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.
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Known For
TV Shows (10)
Prime Suspect
1991
as Milan Lukic
The Golden Calf
2006
as Ostap Bender
Burnt by the Sun 2
2011
as Дмитрий Андреевич Арсентьев - полковник
Spoiler
as Anatoliy Gubarev
Doctor Zhivago
2006
as Yuri Zhivago
Psycho
2020
as Igor
The State Counsellor
2005
as Erast Petrovich Fandorin
Gogol
2019
as Yakov Petrovich Guro - investigator
Charm
2024
as Леонид Максимович
Your Honor
2021
as Mikhail Romanov
Movies (41)
Invasion
2020
as General Lebedev
Attraction
2017
as Colonel Lebedev
Капитан Фракасс
1984
as Барон де Сигоньяк
The Barber of Siberia
1998
as André Tolstoi
Emelianenko
2026
as self
Золотой век Зои Богуславской
2024
as Self
Doctor Zhivago
2006
Kin
1982
as Kirill
Flights in Dreams and in Reality
1983
as Alisa's Friend
Burnt by the Sun
1994
as Dmitry
Speak...
1987
The Birthday of Teresa
1980
as Хосе
The Pokrovsky Gates
1983
as Костик
The Hole
1990
Burnt by the Sun 2: Exodus
2010
as Mitya Arsentyev
Gogol. The Beginning
2017
as Yakov Petrovich Guro - investigator
Big Volodya, Small Volodya
1985
Игроки
2006
as Утешительный
Limited Life
1989
Burnt by the Sun 2: Citadel
2011
as Dmitriy Arsentyev
Prisoner of the Mountains
1996
as Sacha Kostylin
Gogol. A Terrible Vengeance
2018
as Yakov Petrovich Guro - investigator
What Men Talk About
2010
as Himself
East/West
1999
as Aleksei Golovin
The State Counsellor
2005
as Erast Petrovich Fandorin
Moonsund
1987
as Sergey Artenev
The Stairway
1989
as Владимир Пирошников
Mommy
1999
as Lyonchik Yuryev
Legend No. 17
2013
as Tarasov
Through Main Street with an Orchestra
1986
as Korolkov
The Kiss
1983
as Merzlyakov
These... Three True Cards...
1988
The Legend of Salieri
1986
Woe From Wit
2000
as Александр Андреевич Чацкий
I Wait and Hope
1980
Yankovsky
2015
Splashes of Champagne
1989
as Sergei
Interview
2024
Obstacle Course
1984
as Vladimir
My Favorite Clown
1987
as Sergei Sinitsin
Dyuba-Dyuba
1992
About 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 internatio… With 51 credits spanning from 1980 to 2026, Oleg Menshikov has appeared in 41 films and 10 TV shows.
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- Invasion (2020) — as General Lebedev
- Attraction (2017) — as Colonel Lebedev
- Капитан Фракасс (1984) — as Барон де Сигоньяк
- The Barber of Siberia (1998) — as André Tolstoi
- Emelianenko (2026) — as self
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