Olga Volkova was born in Leningrad (now St. Petersburg), in a family of actors. In 1960 she graduated from the acting studio at the
Leningrad Youth Theater. From 1970 to 1976, she performed on the stage of the
Leningrad Comedy Theatre, after which Olga joined the
Bolshoi Drama Theater, where she remained until 1996. She gained widespread cinematic recognition in the 1970s for her roles in the film operetta
Die Fledermaus and the melodrama
I Ask to Accuse Klava K. of My Death. A particularly significant aspect of Volkova's career was her collaboration with the filmmaker
Eldar Ryazanov, in whose films she portrayed some of the most iconic roles of her career. Following minor parts in Ryazanov's
Station for Two and
A Cruel Romance, she was cast in leading roles in 1987's
Forgotten Melody for a Flute and in 1991's
Promised Heaven. In 1996, Volkova moved to
Moscow. Since then, she has worked primarily in private theatrical enterprises and on a contractual basis. A new wave of popularity came to her in the late 2000s, thanks to her involvement in the sitcom ''
Daddy's Daughters''. In 2020, she performed as an actress at the
Theatre of Nations in the production
The Taming of the Shrew. ==Selected filmography==