[1] Yeslyamova was born in Petropavl, North Kazakhstan Region, Kazakh SSR, Soviet Union.

[2] While studying at Russian Academy of Theatre Arts – GITIS in 2008, Yeslyamova played in the film Tulpan by Sergey Dvortsevoy.

Ten years later, in May 2018, she received the Best Actress Award at the Cannes Film Festival for her role in Ayka by the same director.

[3] The actress played an immigrant worker from Kyrgyzstan who, driven by poverty, is forced to leave her child in the hospital.

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the 2019 and 2020 award ceremonies were postponed, and results were revealed in 2021.