Honored Artist of the RSFSR (1969). People's Artist of the RSFSR (7.01.1977). In 1953 she graduated from the All-Union State Institute of Cinematography (the workshop of Sergei Gerasimov and Tamara Makarova). In the same 1953 she became an actress of the Theater-Studio of Film Actors. In total she played more than sixty roles in feature films and performances staged by such directors as Lev Kulidzhanov, Yakov Segel, Mark Donskoy, Boris Buneev, Maria Fedorova, Eldor Urazbaev, Andrei Sakharov, Stanislav Rostotsky, Grigory Chukhray, Tatyana Lioznova, Konstantin Voinov and many others.

She took an active part in dubbing films.

Her husband was film director Stanislav Rostotsky (1922–2001). Her son was actor, director and stuntman Andrei Rostotsky (1957–2002).

USSR State Prize (1970) for the role of the teacher Svetlana Mikhailovna in the legendary film "We'll Live Till Monday".