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Nov 8, 1960 (63)

Moscow, USSR [now Russia]

Oleg Menshikov

​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.

Attraction

January 26, 2017

Invasion

February 27, 2020

Burnt by the Sun

May 1, 1994

What Men Talk About

March 4, 2010

The Barber of Siberia

November 11, 1998

Legend No. 17

April 17, 2013

Gogol. The Beginning

August 31, 2017

Prime Suspect

April 7, 1991

East/West

September 1, 1999

Gogol. A Terrible Vengeance

August 30, 2018