[1] Lyudmila Mikhailovna Arinina was born on 8 November 1926 in Sinodskoye Village [ru], Saratov Oblast.

In 1948, she graduated from the acting department of GITIS (course of Vladimir Belokurov).

[2] Arinina debuted in 1967 in the film Four Pages of One Young Life (directed by Rezo Esadze).

Since then, she has portrayed more than a hundred film roles, including roles in the films of director Pyotr Fomenko: For the Rest of His Life (1975), Almost Funny Story (1977), Traveling on an Old Car (1985).

Arinina first married Nikolai Mokin (1924–1984), theater director and actor.