[3] Dobrovolskaya was born in Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union on 26 December 1964.

[4] In 1987 she graduated from GITIS (course of Lyudmila Kasatkina and Sergey Kolosov), and 1991 was admitted to the Moscow Chekhov Art Theatre.

[6] She made her debut in the movies in 1983 in the Pavel Chukhrai film A Canary Cage.

[7] In the fall of 2023, Dobrovolskaya was diagnosed an aggressive form of stomach cancer with subcutaneous and brain metastases.

On 4 December 2024, she entered the palliative care centre in Moscow due to cancer complications.