[1][2] In 1974, as a student, she played Tanya, the lead female role in Andrei Konchalovsky's film A Lover's Romance.

[1][2] In 1977, the actress played the lead role in the picture of Iosif Kheifits Asya based on the story of the same name by Ivan Turgenev.

There were two significant works by Koreneva in 1979: Elizaveta Potapovna, the daughter of the usurer in the vaudeville of Svetlana Druzhinina Hussar's Matchmaking and Martha, the wife of the main character in Mark Zakharov's The Very Same Munchhausen.

[1][2] One of her last works before leaving abroad was the role of Nurse Lyudochka in Mikhail Kozakov's film The Pokrovsky Gate (1982).

In June 1982, she married Kevin Moss, an American university teacher of Russian language and literature, and on September 15 she emigrated to the United States.

Remaining a citizen of the USSR, she did not have the opportunity to visit her homeland for 3.5 years to meet her relatives, as the Soviet authorities refused her.

[1][2] During the 11-year emigration, she also starred in a number of American films (1984 - Beloved Mary, 1989 - Homer and Eddie, 1993 - Prisoner of Time) and began writing autobiographical prose.

One of the first theatrical works of the actress on her return to Russia was the role of Lou Andreas-Salome in the solo performance Lu (and Fritz, and Rainer, and Professor), staged in 1994 by David George.