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 Mikhalkovs 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 Stalins Great Purge Menshikovs 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 Wargniers 1999 film EastWest with Sandrine Bonnaire and Catherine Deneuve Menshikov played the hero of Mikhalkovs 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 miniseries based on The Little Golden Calf Description above from the Wikipedia article Oleg Menshikov licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia