The actress' mother spent her career with the Taganka Theatre, and her grandmother, Nadezhda Tyshkevich, was a ballerina in Kiev.
Her legendary grandfather, actor Sergei Lukyanov (who appeared in "Kuban Cossacks" and "The Captain's Daughter", died long before her birth.
Darya's parents wanted her to follow in her father's footsteps and become a translator; she took intensive English courses and was tutored.
Following this, she was accepted to the Boris Shchukin Theatre Institute and ultimately graduated.
[4] At the end of her second year at the Institute, she married another student and gave birth to a daughter, Polina.