Followed in her parents' footsteps, graduating from a theatrical academy and going to work at the Moscow Art Theater.

Over a period of four years, she played a dozen leading roles and appeared in several movies.

But just as everything was going right in her acting career, Menshova stepped off the stage and into the television studio as an editor.

[3] Her women's talk show on TV6, Ya sama (I'll Do It Myself), regularly ruled the ratings.

Her father, actor and director Vladimir Menshov, won the 1980 Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film for Moscow Does not Believe in Tears, in which her mother, actress Vera Alentova, played the leading role.