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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Known for
Prime Suspect
Milan Lukic
Invasion
General Lebedev
The Golden Calf
Ostap Bender
Attraction
Colonel Lebedev
Psycho
Igor
Gogol'
Yakov Petrovich Guro - investigator
Burnt by the Sun 2
Дмитрий Андреевич Арсентьев - полковник
Doctor Zhivago
Yuri Zhivago
Doctor Zhivago
Charm
Леонид Максимович
Your Honor
Mikhail Romanov
The Barber of Siberia
André Tolstoi
Burnt by the Sun 2: Citadel
Dmitriy Arsentyev
Gogol. The Beginning
Yakov Petrovich Guro - investigator
Spoiler
Anatoliy Gubarev
Burnt by the Sun 2: Exodus
Mitya Arsentyev
The State Counsellor
Erast Petrovich Fandorin
Prisoner of the Mountains
Sacha Kostylin
Gogol. A Terrible Vengeance
Yakov Petrovich Guro - investigator
Burnt by the Sun
Dimitri (Mitya)
The State Counsellor
Erast Petrovich Fandorin
East/West
Aleksei Golovin
What Men Talk About
Himself
Золотой век Зои Богуславской
Self
The Pokrovsky Gates
Костик
Moonsund
Sergey Artenev
Kin
Kirill
Legend No. 17
Tarasov
Mommy
Lyonchik Yuryev
These... Three True Cards...
Dyuba-Dyuba
Splashes of Champagne
Sergei
Yankovsky
Through Main Street with an Orchestra
Korolkov
Flights in Dreams and in Reality
Alisa's Friend
The Hole
Limited Life
Капитан Фракасс
Барон де Сигоньяк
My Favorite Clown
Сергей Синицын
The Kiss
Merzlyakov
I Wait and Hope
Emelianenko
self
Woe From Wit
Александр Андреевич Чацкий
Игроки
Утешительный
Big Volodya, Small Volodya
Obstacle Course
Vladimir
The Legend of Salieri
Интервью
The Stairway
Владимир Пирошников
Speak...
The Birthday of Teresa
Хосе