Alex Menglet | |
|---|---|
| Born | Alexei Menglet |
| Education | Moscow State Institute of Drama (GETES) |
| Occupation | Actor |
| Notable work | Prisoner Kick |
| Children | 2 |
Alex Menglet, born Alexei Menglet in Moscow, USSR, is an actor who has found success working in Australia.
Menglet was born in Moscow, USSR to famous parents Maya Menglet and Leonid Satanovskiy. He came from a theatrical family. [1] His grandfather, Menglet Georgy, was a People's Artist of the USSR, his mother was a Honored Artist of the RSFSR and his father was an Honored Artist of the RSFSR and People's Artist of Russia. His maternal great grandmother, Bertha Ansovna Rusman (1889-1981) was a Latvian revolutionary, participated in the murder of a factory director in Riga in 1906 for handing over revolutionary workers to gendarmes. She was arrested and exiled to the Yenisey Governorate. A member of the CPSU with membership card #40 [2] .
As a child, he played the co-lead in television series The Old Fortress, feature film The Boys and Hurray for the Holidays, before studying a four year course in acting and stage direction at Moscow State Institute of Drama [1] (GETES), where he received his Diploma in 1977. [3]
Menglet is best known for his roles as chef Ray 'Gay Ray' Proctor in the 1984 season of Prisoner [4] and more recently as Zoran Baranoff in the SBS series Kick .
He played Petrov in 1987 miniseries The Petrov Affair , Alexi in High Flyers , Krzysztof in SeaChange and Vlad in House Rules . [1] More recently, Menglet starred as Joan Ferguson's father and fencing instructor, Ivan Ferguson in prison drama Wentworth .
Menglet appeared in Australian television series, Skyways , The Sullivans , Cop Shop as well as a six-week role in Carson's Law playing the role of Lazlo Novack. [4] He also had a role in 2009 UKTV miniseries False Witness .
He also appeared in Wilfred II , City Homicide , Kath & Kim , Shock Jock , Janus , Phoenix , as well as miniseries Anzacs and The Dunera Boys (both 1985) and Bordertown (1995). [1]
Menglet early film credits include The Clinic (1982), [3] Sky Pirates (1986), [4] Holidays on the River Yarra (1991), A Woman’s Tale (1991), Garbo (1992). [3] He also appeared in the features Children of the Revolution (1996), He Died with a Falafel in his Hand (2001), Josh Jarman (2004), The Book of Revelation (2006), Salvation (2008) [1] and Any Questions for Ben? (2012). [3] In 2021, Menglet played the role of Yaroslav in the film Ascendant . [5]
Menglet has appeared in numerous theatre productions throughout his career. [1] He was a member of the Anthill Theatre ensemble in Melbourne in the 1980s, [6] alongside fellow Eastern European migrant, Jacek Koman. [6]
There, he performed in productions of The Cherry Orchard , Uncle Vanya , The Imaginary Invalid , Three Sisters , The Crimson Island, The School for Wives , Mother Courage and Her Children and The Immigrants. [1]
He went on to perform in Melbourne Theatre Company productions such as The Visit alongside Zoe Caldwell and Cyrano de Bergerac opposite David Wenham. [6] He reunited with Koman, starring together in a production of Waiting for Godot . [6] Other MTC credits include Rock 'n' Roll , The Madwoman of Chaillot , Cyrano de Bergerac , Julius Caesar , The Woman in the Window, When She Danced, The Selection , The Marriage of Figaro and The Taming of the Shrew . [1] He also translated Chekhov's The Seagull for MTC in 2001. [6]
Additionally, Menglet has performed in Goodbye Vaudeville Charlie Mudd for Malthouse Theatre, Don Juan and Miss Julie for Sydney Theatre Company, The Seagull and Picasso at the Lapin Agile for Belvoir. [1] Other theatre credits include The Forest for Queensland Theatre Company, The Abduction from the Seraglio for Victoria State Opera and If Winter Comes for Church Theatre. [1] He also starred in a revival of Twelve Angry Men , winning a 2005 Green Room Award for Best Supporting Actor. [1]
Menglet has also directed for the stage including productions of Crime and Punishment and The Red and The Black for the Stork Theatre, and Rites of Passage, Yellow Moon, Jack Goes Boating and a 2005 production of Playing the Victim for Red Stitch Actors Theatre, [1] starring Jim Daly and Angus Sampson. [5]
Menglet has also worked for ABC Radio drama and the Russian Language Program on SBS Radio, and as a director and translator. [1] [5]
At the age of 18, Menglet married his first wife, a school teacher. They separated ten months later, before getting divorced. [4]
While studying drama in Moscow, met and then married Elsbeth, a West German exchange student, before moving to Germany in 1978, at the age of 22. A friend from Moscow had moved to Melbourne, where he was photographer on some Australian films, influencing Menglet (who wanted to move to am English-speaking country) to move there with his wife in 1981. Together, they had two daughters Renisia and Katerina. [6] [4]
Menglet also has a brother, Dmitri.
| Year | Title | Role | Notes | Ref |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1972 | Malchiki | Goshka Vyezemskiy | Feature film | |
| Ura! U nas kanikuly! | Feature film | |||
| 1982 | The Clinic | Feature film | ||
| 1984 | Matthew and Son | Gebhard | TV film | |
| 1985 | Wills & Burke | William Brahe | Feature film | |
| 1986 | Man and Boy | Relievimg Manager | Short film | |
| Sky Pirates | Sullivan | Feature film | ||
| The More Things Change... | Telecom Man | Feature film | ||
| The Still Point | Paul | Feature film | ||
| 1988 | Georgia | Lazlo | Feature film | |
| The Rainbow Warrior Conspiracy | Velche | TV film | ||
| 1989 | Celia | Mr Goldman | Feature film | |
| 1991 | Against the Innocent | Karl Heinmann | Feature film | |
| A Woman's Tale | Con 2 | Feature film | ||
| Holidays on the River Yarra | Big Mac | Feature film | ||
| 1992 | Garbo | Czech Agent | Feature film | |
| 1993 | The Feds | Dr Steven Jellicie | TV film | |
| 1996 | Zone 39 | Tito | Feature film | |
| Children of the Revolution | Yuri Nikoloyev | Feature film | ||
| 2001 | He Died with a Felafel in His Hand | Taylor | Feature film | |
| 2003 | The Long Lunch | Issur Demsky | Feature film | |
| 2004 | One Perfect Day | Bernard May | Feature film | |
| Josh Jarman | Sebastian | Feature film | ||
| 2008 | Salvation | Anton | Feature film | |
| 2010 | The Wedding Party | Mikhail | Feature film | |
| 2011 | The Crimson Room | Short film | ||
| 2012 | Any Questions for Ben? | Katerina‘s Dad | Feature film | |
| 2014 | The Mule | Victor | Feature film | |
| Rabbit | Leonard | Short film | ||
| 2016 | Milk of Kindness | Director Merrett | Short film | |
| 2021 | Ascendant | Yaroslav | Feature film | [7] |
| 2022 | Petrol | Vladimir | Feature film |
| Year | Title | Role | Type |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1972 | Byloe i dumy | Nik | |
| 1979 | Skyways | Mikhail Gosenko | 1 episode |
| 1981 | Holiday Island | Niko | 2 episodes |
| 1983 | Carson's Law | Laszlo Novak | 10 episodes |
| 1984 | Special Squad | Yuri | Episode 26: "Farewell to a Comrade" |
| 1984–1985 | Prisoner | Ray 'Gay Ray' Proctor | 14 episodes |
| 1985 | The Fast Lane | Harwood | 1 episode |
| A Thousand Skies | Antony Fokker | Miniseries, 1 episode | |
| Anzacs | Hans | Miniseries, 1 episode | |
| The Dunera Boys | Roth | Miniseries, 2 episodes | |
| 1987 | The Petrov Affair | Vladimir Petrov | Miniseries, 2 episodes |
| 1988 | Always Afternoon | Hans Weissmuller | Miniseries, 3 episodes |
| 1989 | Mission: Impossible | Lieutenant Udo | 1 episode |
| 1992 | Phoenix | Ivan Kastelanic | 1 episode |
| 1994 | Halfway Across the Galaxy and Turn Left | Mr Hohenhaus | 8 episodes |
| The Damnation of Harvey McHugh | Sasha | Miniseries, 1 episode | |
| 1995 | Janus | Dr Rogers | 1 episode |
| Bordertown | Mihaly Bassa | Miniseries, 10 episodes | |
| 1997 | State Coroner | Jim Vandenburg | 1 episode |
| 1998 | The Genie from Down Under 2 | Grigor | 1 episode |
| 1999 | SeaChange | Krzysztof | 1 episode |
| High Flyers | Alexei | 26 episodes | |
| 2000 | Eugénie Sandler P.I. | Davorin | 11 episodes |
| 2001 | Shock Jock | Dieter Kohl | 1 episode |
| 2003 | Stingers | Ben Schulman | 1 episode |
| 2004 | Kath and Kim | Photographer | 1 episode |
| 2007 | Kick | Zoran Baranoff | 13 episodes |
| 2008 | City Homicide | Walter Pankor | 1 episode |
| 2009 | False Witness | Dimitri | Miniseries |
| 2010 | Wilfred | Orpheous | 1 episode |
| 2011 | Killing Time | Uri | Miniseries, 2 episodes |
| 2012 | Rake | Gerard | 1 episode |
| 2014–2015 | Wentworth | Ivan Ferguson / Fencing Master | |
| 2016 | Hunters | Havi | 1 episode |
| 2021 | Wakefield | Petrov | Miniseries, 2 episodes |
| Jack Irish | The Banker | 2 episodes |
| Year | Title | Role | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | The Little Prince | Director | Moscow Theatre Academy of Mossoviet | |
| 1999 | The Little Cherry Orchard | Translator | Belvoir Street Theatre, Sydney | |
| 2001 | The Seagull | Translator | Playhouse, Melbourne with MTC | |
| 2005 | Playing the Victim | Director | Red Stitch Actors Theatre, Melbourne | |
| 2007 | Jack Goes Boating | Director | ||
| The Spook | Dialect consultant | Malthouse Theatre, Melbourne | ||
| 2009 | The Rites of Evil | Director / Designer | Red Stitch Actors Theatre, Melbourne with Melbourne Fringe Festival | |
| Yellow Moon | Director | Red Stitch Actors Theatre, Melbourne | ||
| 2010 | Uncle Vanya | Translator | Sydney Theatre with Bell Shakespeare | |
| 2017; 2019 | Tchekov at the House of Special Purpose | Director | La Mama Courthouse, Melbourne | |
| 2021; 2022 | Interculturality... Chekhov: Masha in Translation | Director | Monash University, Melbourne, Theatre Works, Melbourne |