She won Best Actress at the 1995 Moscow Theatrical Debuts Festival for
her stage performance as Tatiana Borodina in Slawomir Mrozek's "Love in the
Crimea" at the Chekhov Moscow Arts Theater (Chekhov MXAT).
She has been called the Russian Julia Roberts because of her stunning beauty.
She has been called the Russian Audrey Hepburn because of the endearing
feminine vulnerability she projects through the characters she
portrays.
She is a graduate of the prestigious Moscow Arts Theater (MXAT) School,
which she attended from 1991-1995. (Each year, the MXAT School accepts
only 20-30 students from several thousand applicants.)
After graduating from the MXAT School, she was asked to join the
Chekhov Moscow Arts Theater (Chekhov MXAT) Stage Troupe, where she was
a stage actress from 1996 until she left in 2000.