Together with her twin sister Ksenia, she participated in theatrical productions from childhood. She appeared in the films "Where Will He Go" and "The Red, Honest, Lover." In 1988 she entered the directing faculty of GITIS (RATI), in the workshop of Pyotr Fomenko. In 1993, after graduating from RATI, she joined the troupe of the new theater "Pyotr Fomenko Workshop." She appeared in Georgiy Daneliya's films "Nastya" and "Heads or Tails," Nikolai Dostal's "The Petty Demon," Alexander Khvan's "Easy to Die," in S.

Osipyan's short film "Homemade Truth," and in 1993 Polina, together with her sister Ksenia Kutepova, also appeared in J.-L. Godard's novella "Our Holy Rus," where Polina was given a role built on echoes of Chekhov's Irina from "Three Sisters." Honored Artist of Russia (2004).