[1] She acted in cinema since 1955, her cinematic debut was an uncredited role of a laboratory assistant in the film directed by Anatoly Granik Maksim Perepelitsa.

[1] When working on the set of the 1964 movie What is it, the sea?, Lidiya met her future husband, writer, actor and director Vasily Shukshin, whom she married in the same year.

The actress got her breakthrough in the films of her husband, in which she played folk heroines - simple Russian women, sincere and trustful, endowed with inner strength, such are Nyura in the picture Happy Go Lucky (1972) and Lyuba Baykalova in the drama The Red Snowball Tree (1973).

[1] Fedoseyeva-Shukshina acted in many historical films: The Youth of Peter the Great (1980), Demidovs (1983), Viva Gardes-Marines!

[1] Lidiya Fedoseyeva-Shukshina is the president and chairman of the jury of the All-Russian Film Festival "Viva, Cinema of Russia!".

She was awarded the Order "For Merit to the Fatherland", 4th Degree (1998) for her great personal contribution to the development of motion pictures, and the Medal for Services to Society (2009).