Oleg Menshikov

Oleg Menshikov at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival.

Oleg Evgenyevich Menshikov (Russian: Оле́г Евге́ньевич Ме́ньшиков); (born 8 November 1960) is a 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 Joseph 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.

Oleg Evgenyevich Menshikov - 1900 - 2010-09-09

Selected filmography

• Kinfolk (Родня) (1981)
• Flights in Dreams and in Reality (Полёты во сне и наяву) (1982)
• The Pokrovsky Gate (Покровские ворота) (1982)
• My Favourite Clown (Мой любимый клоун) (1986)
• Moonzund (Моонзунд) (1987)
• Dyuba-Dyuba (Дюба-Дюба) (1993)
• Burnt by the Sun (Утомлённые солнцем) (1994)
• Prisoner of the Mountains (Кавказский пленник) (1996)
• The Barber of Siberia (Сибирский цирюльник) (1998)
• East/West (Восток - Запад) (1999)
• Prime Suspect 6 (Главный подозреваемый 6: Последний свидетель) (2003, TV)
• The State Counsellor (Статский советник) (2005)
• Doctor Zhivago (Доктор Живаго) (2006)
• Burnt by the Sun 2(2010)

External links

• Oleg Menshikov at the Internet Movie Database
• Fanpage (Russian/English)

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