Svetlana Kamynina was born in Chelyabinsk, RSFSR, USSR. She graduated from the correspondence department of the Finance and Economics Institute and worked for four years in commercial banks. In 2004 she graduated from the acting faculty of the International Slavic Institute (workshop of I.M. Moskvin-Tarkhanov and G.A. Frolov). In 2005-2006 she performed at the Moscow Regional Theater for Young Spectators (Tsaritsyno). She is an actress of the "Praktika" theater.