Tatyana Parkina began working part-time at the age of 14. In her free time she played in the folk theater at the Riga Wagon Building Plant. Knowledge of the Latvian language and the desire to try herself in the world of pop music led Tatyana to the vocal-instrumental ensemble 'Tonika-67', with which she toured in 1968-1969. In 1972 she entered VGIK in the workshop of Sergey Gerasimov and Tamara Makarova. Together with her, Svetlana Smekhnova, Larisa Udovichenko, Lyubov Polekhina, Svetlana Dirina and others studied on the course. In the VGIK production 'Feast in Time of Plague' (directed by N. Bondarchuk and N. Burlyaev) she played the role of Mary. She performed romances in the production. In 1976 she graduated from VGIK. Due to the lack of a residence permit, she could not get a staff position at the Mosfilm film studio. And then Tatyana returned to performing songs. At the same time she acted in films. In 1977 she returned to Riga and got a job at the Riga Variety and Concert Association (REKO). In 1977-1980 she was a solo vocalist in a show program. She sang songs by Soviet composers ('Prosto', 'Only You', etc.). In 1980 Tatyana returned to Moscow and got a job in a show program from the Moscow Association of Musical Ensembles.

In her performance sounded the songs 'Rassvet-zakat' (from the repertoire of V. Leontyev), 'Kruzhitsya volchok', 'Ya prozhivu i bez tebya' and others. In 1982 the actress was invited to audition for the film 'I Can't Say Goodbye' (directed by B. Durov). After this film, Tatyana actively acted in cinema. In 1985 Tatyana moved from one pop group to another and continued to sing, but in the new group she performed songs in different languages (Hungarian, French, English, Latvian, etc.). In 1988-96 she toured with a show program in various countries (Singapore, Bulgaria, Canada, Germany, Romania, the coast of Antalya and others). In 1996-1997 she worked at the Moscow Music Hall. In 2000 she returned to the big screen. Her first role after a long break was the role of a director's assistant on TV in Vladimir Menshov's film 'The Envy of Gods'. Then there were small roles in other films. She acts in the humorous TV magazine of the RTR channel 'Ha-ha', commercials. Her adult daughter Nika is a student of the economics department of VGIK. She played the role of the Persian queen Statira in Karen Shakhnazarov's film 'Poisons, or the World History of Poisoning'.