Oleg Menshikov
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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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Movies (41)

Emelianenko
2026 · self

Interview
2024

Золотой век Зои Богуславской
2024 · Self

Invasion
2020 · General Lebedev

Gogol. A Terrible Vengeance
2018 · Yakov Petrovich Guro - investigator

Gogol. The Beginning
2017 · Yakov Petrovich Guro - investigator

Attraction
2017 · Colonel Lebedev

Yankovsky
2015

Legend No. 17
2013 · Tarasov

Burnt by the Sun 2: Citadel
2011 · Dmitriy Arsentyev

Burnt by the Sun 2: Exodus
2010 · Mitya Arsentyev

What Men Talk About
2010 · Himself

Игроки
2006 · Утешительный, Director

Doctor Zhivago
2006

The State Counsellor
2005 · Erast Petrovich Fandorin

Woe From Wit
2000 · Александр Андреевич Чацкий, Director

East/West
1999 · Aleksei Golovin

Mommy
1999 · Lyonchik Yuryev

The Barber of Siberia
1998 · André Tolstoi

Prisoner of the Mountains
1996 · Sacha Kostylin

Burnt by the Sun
1994 · Dmitry

Dyuba-Dyuba
1992

The Hole
1990

Limited Life
1989 · Alexey Rudakov

The Stairway
1989 · Владимир Пирошников

Splashes of Champagne
1989 · Sergei

These... Three True Cards...
1988

Moonsund
1987 · Sergey Artenev

Speak...
1987

My Favorite Clown
1987 · Sergei Sinitsin

Through Main Street with an Orchestra
1986 · Korolkov

The Legend of Salieri
1986

Big Volodya, Small Volodya
1985

Obstacle Course
1984 · Vladimir

Капитан Фракасс
1984 · Барон де Сигоньяк

The Kiss
1983 · Merzlyakov

The Pokrovsky Gates
1983 · Костик

Flights in Dreams and in Reality
1983 · Alisa's Friend

Kin
1982 · Kirill

The Birthday of Teresa
1980 · Хосе

I Wait and Hope
1980
TV shows (10)

Charm
2024 · Леонид Максимович

Your Honor
2021 · Mikhail Romanov

Psycho
2020 · Igor

Gogol
2019 · Yakov Petrovich Guro - investigator

Burnt by the Sun 2
2011 · Дмитрий Андреевич Арсентьев - полковник

Doctor Zhivago
2006 · Юрий Живаго

The Golden Calf
2006 · Ostap Bender

The State Counsellor
2005 · Erast Petrovich Fandorin

Prime Suspect
1991 · Milan Lukic

Spoiler
· Anatoliy Gubarev

