After finishing the Moscow Art Theatre School (1955, Karev course) she co-founded the Sovremennik Theatre, together with Igor Kvasha, Oleg Tabakov, Oleg Yefremov and Yevgeny Yevstigneyev.

Among them were Russian and world classics, works of contemporary domestic and foreign authors.

[1][2] She was repeatedly invited to productions in theaters in Germany, Finland, Ireland, the US, Hungary, Poland and other countries.

[2] Volchek was elected a deputy into the State Duma in 1995, where she became a member of the Committee on Culture.

[1][2] On 26 December 2019, Volchek died in Moscow from pneumonia, one week after her 86th birthday.