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