Mironova was born in Moscow to Elizaveta Ivanovna Firsova, a schoolteacher, and Vladimir Nikolayevich Mironov, a merchant from a family. In 1927, Mironova graduated from the Lunacharsky State Institute for Theatre Arts ( the
Russian Institute of Theatre Arts). She became a member of the popular comedy-duo Mironova and Menaker, in which she performed on stage with her husband, Alexander Menaker, for about three and a half decades since the duo debuted in 1939, until Menaker's death in 1982. The memoir
...In Their Repertoire () was published in 1984, written by Mironova in co-authorship with her husband, who had died two years prior to the publication. She acted on stage for the last time in 's play
The Old Man Left the Old Woman () just a few days before her hospitalisation and death. She was buried at
Vagankovo Cemetery next to her son, who had died ten years earlier. == Selected filmography ==