Born in the town of Alexandrov, Vladimir Oblast, RSFSR, USSR. Graduated from the Shchukin Theater School (1980). From 1980 to 1994 she was an actress at the Vladimir Mayakovsky Theater. In 1994 she emigrated to the United States with her husband, selling their Moscow apartment. With the proceeds, her husband opened an auto repair shop in America.

But the business did not take off, and the money was lost. In America Lyudmila worked as a store saleswoman and cared for elderly women. After divorcing her husband in 2003, she returned to Moscow. She was an actress at Sergei Prokhanov's Luna Theater. Since 2008 she has been an actress at the Film Actor Theater.