Natalya Vladimirovna Bochkareva was born in Gorky (now Nizhny Novgorod) on July 25, 1980.

She has one sibling, younger sister Nadezhda Bochkareva.

She started her career in 1999 when she played a small role in the movie Chinese Service.

From 2006 to 2013, she played the main role of Darya Bukina in the Russian TV series Happy Together - an adaptation of the American TV series Married... with Children.

Since 2002, she has been an actress for the Moscow Art Theatre, and since 2010 she has worked as a television presenter.