Nina Arkhipova was born in Omsk in 1921. Since 1943 she worked in the theater. Vakhtangov, in 1951 she moved to the Satire Theater, where she played more than a hundred roles. Among her most famous works is the role of Erzhi in the TV play "Rise and Sing!" Arkhipova also starred in Nikita Mikhalkov's Burnt by the Sun (1994) and its 2010 sequel.