Honored Artist of the RSFSR (30.09.1981). Order of Friendship (1.12.2006). Winner of the Vera Kholodnaya Prize "Most Mischievous Actress."

People's Artist of the Russian Federation (2.05.1996). Honored Worker of Culture of Poland (1976). At the age of six she played the main role in a play at the Soviet Army Theater. In cinema since 1953 (her first role was Sashenka in the film "Alyosha Ptitsyn Develops Character"). In 1966 she graduated from the Moscow Theater School named after B. V. Shchukin (course master: Boris Zakhava). Since 1966 she has been an actress at the Moscow Academic Satire Theater. Success came to the actress with the release of Leonid Iovich Gaidai's film "Operation Y and Other Adventures of Shurik," in which she played Lida. Subsequently she successfully appeared more than once in Leonid Gaidai's comedies. In addition, the actress owes much of her popularity to the television show "The 13 Chairs Tavern," where Natalya Seleznyova shone in the role of the charming Pani Katarina.