Yablonskaya was born in Leningrad in 1938, daughter of Viktor Yablonsky (Виктор Яблонский), a Moscow Art Theater actor and director.
She was one of the leading actors of Lensovet Theater in Leningrad,[1] Her most notable role in theatre is Negina in "Talents and Admirers" by Alexander Ostrovsky, staged by Maria Knebel at the Mayakovsky Theater in Moscow.
[citation needed] Her most famous play, Plush Monkey in a Crib (The Role) was staged at the Gogol Theatre in Moscow.
Their daughter, Marianna Yarovskaya, is a filmmaker who works in the United States.
Her 2018 short documentary film, Women of the Gulag, was nominated for an Oscar.