Oleg Menshikov
Born November 08, 1960 (Age: 65)
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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 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.
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.
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Filmography
Invasion
2020
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as General Lebedev
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Age: 59
Gogol. A Terrible Vengeance
2018
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as Yakov Petrovich Guro - investigator
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Age: 57
Gogol. The Beginning
2017
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as Yakov Petrovich Guro - investigator
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Age: 56
Attraction
2017
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as Colonel Lebedev
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Age: 56
Legend No. 17
2013
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as Tarasov
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Age: 52
What Men Talk About
2010
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as Himself
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Age: 49
The State Counsellor
2005
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as Erast Petrovich Fandorin
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Age: 44
East/West
1999
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as Aleksei Golovin
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Age: 38
Prisoner of the Mountains
1996
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as Sacha Kostylin
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Age: 35
Burnt by the Sun
1994
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as Dmitri
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Age: 33
The Legend of Salieri
1986
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as
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Age: 25
The Birthday of Teresa
1980
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as Хосе
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Age: 19