Cast & creator
Oleg Menshikov
Best known for Prime Suspect, Invasion, Attraction
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.
Also known as: Oleg Jewgenjewitsch Menschikow, オレグ・メンシコフ, О. Меньшиков, O. Menshikov
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film credits
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television credits
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1980–2026 · acting roles
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Signature credits
Known for
Across film & television
Filmography (53)
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Prime Suspect
Milan Lukic
1991
Invasion
General Lebedev
2020
Attraction
Colonel Lebedev
2017
Psycho
Igor
2020
The Golden Calf
Ostap Bender
2006
The State Counsellor
Erast Petrovich Fandorin
2005
The Barber of Siberia
André Tolstoi
1998
Gogol
Yakov Petrovich Guro - investigator
2019
Gogol. The Beginning
Yakov Petrovich Guro - investigator
2017
Spoiler
Anatoliy Gubarev
Burnt by the Sun 2
Дмитрий Андреевич Арсентьев - полковник
2011
Burnt by the Sun
Dmitry
1994
Burnt by the Sun 2: Exodus
Mitya Arsentyev
2010
Your Honor
Mikhail Romanov
2021
Doctor Zhivago
Юрий Живаго
2006
Charm
Леонид Максимович
2024
East/West
Aleksei Golovin
1999
Kin
Kirill
1982
Burnt by the Sun 2: Citadel
Dmitriy Arsentyev
2011
Gogol. A Terrible Vengeance
Yakov Petrovich Guro - investigator
2018
Flights in Dreams and in Reality
Alisa's Friend
1983
Doctor Zhivago
2006
What Men Talk About
Himself
2010
Emelianenko
self
2026
The Pokrovsky Gates
Костик
1983
The State Counsellor
Erast Petrovich Fandorin
2005
The Birthday of Teresa
Хосе
1980
Золотой век Зои Богуславской
Self
2024
Prisoner of the Mountains
Sacha Kostylin
1996
Капитан Фракасс
Барон де Сигоньяк
1984
Speak...
1987
The Hole
1990
Limited Life
1989
Big Volodya, Small Volodya
1985
Игроки
Утешительный
2006Игроки
Director
2006
Moonsund
Sergey Artenev
1987
The Legend of Salieri
1986
The Kiss
Merzlyakov
1983
Dyuba-Dyuba
1992
The Stairway
Владимир Пирошников
1989
My Favorite Clown
Sergei Sinitsin
1987
Through Main Street with an Orchestra
Korolkov
1986
Splashes of Champagne
Sergei
1989
Yankovsky
2015
I Wait and Hope
1980
These... Three True Cards...
1988
Legend No. 17
Tarasov
2013
Mommy
Lyonchik Yuryev
1999
Woe From Wit
Александр Андреевич Чацкий
2000Woe From Wit
Director
2000
Interview
2024
Obstacle Course
Vladimir
1984