Director, actress, teacher. Graduated from the Shchepkin School as actress for theatre and cinema. After graduation joined the Moscow Satire Theatre. Without interrupting her work at the theatre, she graduated from the director’s faculty of the Film Institute VGIK, and in 1998 made her first film. She has played dozens of roles in theatre and cinema. She teaches acting at the Theatre Institute GITIS, at the Derzhavin International Slavic Institute and at VGIK