[2] Her parents were Nikolai Matveyevich Arkhipov, a Siberian native of Irkutsk, and Maria Nikolayevna from St. Petersburg, who was shot when Nina was ten years old.

As a child, Nina Arkhipova loved to sing, dance, and play the piano.

After high school, she decided to apply not only to the studio theater – at the Vakhtangov and the Maly Theater and Russian Academy of Theatre Arts, but also to the law faculty of Moscow State University.

She decided to stop the choice on the Boris Shchukin Theatre Institute at the Vakhtangov Theater.

Four years later, she played Faith in Boris Barnet's Generous Summer.