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Brother of Gleb Strizhenov and Marianna Strizhenova.

Father of Aleksandr Strizhenov.

Father-in-law of Ekaterina Strizhenova

In 2010 he received the Golden Eagle Award (Honorary Prize for Contribution to National Cinema, 2009).

After finishing 7th grade in 1944, Oleg got a job as an assistant mechanic at the Scientific Research Film and Photo Institute (NIKFI), and at the age of 16 he was " sent to the labor front to build Paveletsky Station and lay a railroad for electric trains.

Oleg Strizhenov was a Soviet and Russian stage and film actor.

In 1953 he graduated from the B.V. Shchukin Theatre School and became an actor at the State Russian Drama Theatre of the Estonian SSR in Tallinn (now the Russian Theatre of Estonia ).

He was awarded People's Artist of the USSR in 1988.

His best roles include roles in such films as , " Forty-First " (1956), which was awarded a special prize at the 10th Cannes Film Festival (1957), and " White Nights " (1959), recognized as one of the best films of 1960 by the British Film Institute.

From 1957 to 1966 he was a member of the troupe of the Film Actor's Studio Theatre. In 1977 he returned and for the rest of his life he was a member of the troupe of the Film Actor's Studio Theatre (now Nikita Mikhalkov's Workshop "12" ).