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Oleg Menshikov (born on 8 November, 1960) is a famous Russian entertainer. He is a film and theatre actor, singer and comedian. He started his film career in the early 1980s playing in the hugely popular comedy Pokrovskie vorota and in Nikita Mikhalkov's Rodnya.
He starred in Mikhalkov's Burnt by the Sun, which won the Grand Prize at the Cannes Film Festival and the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, and in Régis Wargnier's 1999 film drama East-West, together with Catherine Deneuve.
He also played the hero of Mikhalkov's 1998 The Barber of Siberia, with Julia Ormond playing his mistress. More recently, he appeared as Erast Fandorin in the 2005 box-office champion The Councillor of State and as Ostap Bender in the 2006 Russian mini-series based on The Little Golden Calf.
Selected filmography
- Kinfolk (РоднÑ?) (1981)
- Flights in Dreams and in Reality (Ð?олÑ?Ñ?Ñ? во Ñ?не и наÑ?вÑ?) (1982)
- Pokrov Gates (Ð?окÑ?овÑ?кие воÑ?оÑ?а) (1982) (TV)
- My Favourite Clown (Ð?ой лÑ?бимÑ?й клоÑ?н) (1986)
- Moonzund (1987)
- Burnt by the Sun (УÑ?омлÑ?ннÑ?е Ñ?олнÑ?ем) (1994)
- Prisoner of the Mountains (Ð?авказÑ?кий пленник) (1996)
- The Barber of Siberia (СибиÑ?Ñ?кий Ñ?иÑ?Ñ?лÑ?ник) (1998)
- East-West (Est - Ouest) (1999)
- Prime Suspect 6 (2003) (TV)
- The State Councilor (СÑ?аÑ?Ñ?кий Ñ?овеÑ?ник) (2005)
External links
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