Oleg Yevgenyevich 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 Pokrovsky Gates and in the Nikita Mikhalkov film Kinfolk. Menshikov appeared in Régis Wargnier's 1999 film East West with Sandrine Bonnaire and Catherine Deneuve. He is comparable to the Western actor Colin Firth.