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Oleg Evgenevich Menshikov
Олег Меньшиков
Birth at
8 November 1960
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Oleg Evgenyevich Menshikov was born on November 8, 1960 in the city of Serpukhov in the family of a military engineer and a neurologist. Oleg’s childhood and youth were spent in Moscow. From an early age, the boy was fond of music, operetta, theater and already in high school he began staging performances that combine music and poems of his own composition. After graduation, Oleg chose a career as an actor and entered the Shchepkin Higher Theater School. Oleg Menshikov’s debut in cinema took place
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Oleg Evgenyevich Menshikov was born on November 8, 1960 in the city of Serpukhov in the family of a military engineer and a neurologist. Oleg’s childhood and youth were spent in Moscow. From an early age, the boy was fond of music, operetta, theater and already in high school he began staging performances that combine music and poems of his own composition. After graduation, Oleg chose a career as an actor and entered the Shchepkin Higher Theater School.
Oleg Menshikov’s debut in cinema took place in 1980 in the drama by Suren Shahbazyan.
"Waiting and hoping" . This picture was followed by filming in the film directed by Nikita Mikhalkov
Homeland and the drama of R. Balayan "Flights in Dream and Reality."
But the real popularity came to the actor after filming in the film by Mikhail Kozakov.
Pokrovsky Gate Menshikov played the role of a student Kostic. It was he who was selected from almost twenty applicants for this role, managed to accurately convey the spirit of the late 50s, to create an image of an intelligent, ironic, charming Kostik - such as M. Kozakov saw him.
In the eighties, Oleg Menshikov managed to try on various acting roles – the hero of the “cloak and swords” in “Captain Frakasse” (1984), the naval officer in “Moonzund” (1987), the secular womanizer in the film “Volodya Big and Volodya Small” (1985). No less successful was his career in the theater. One of the most notable were the roles of Ganechka in the play “The Idiot” and Caligula in the play of the same name by P. Fomenko.
In the 90s, Oleg Menshikov began to play more often in the theater and less often in the cinema. The most notable works in the cinema were "Weary of the Sun" (1994), "Caucasian Prisoner" (1996), "Siberian Barber" (1998), in the 2000s - "Golden Calf" and "Doctor Zhivago".
Oleg Evgenyevich became the winner of the Russian independent award “Triumph” for outstanding contribution to the national culture (1994), the award “Idol” (2000, “Siberian Barber”, “Woe from Wit”), two awards “The Seagull” (for the role of Chatsky in “Woe from Wit”; for the best actor’s ensemble – the play “Players”). In 2003, Oleg Menshikov was awarded the title of People's Artist of Russia.