A noted stage actress at the Moscow Art Theater, she has been active in film and television since 1997. She is a recipient of the State Prize of the Russian Federation (2001).
Her father was a theater director and an art director of the Arkhangelsk Regional Youth Theatre. and her mother is a piano teacher at Arkhangelsk Pedagogical College.[1] Her elder sister is also an actress. Panova graduated from the school-studio of Moscow Art Theater in 1999 and joined the same theater.[1] At the theatre s