Varvara Shmykova was born on February 24, 1992 in Moscow in a large family (3 brothers and 2 sisters). Until the age of 11, she practiced hand-to-hand combat and arm wrestling. She was fond of football, as a midfielder she played for the football team of the Northern Tushino district.From 2004 to 2010 she played in the Children's Musical Theater of Young Actor (MTYA) and was involved in 5 repertoire musicals: “Oliver Twist”, “Tom Sawyer”, “In the Nursery”, “Moscow Story”, “Dream of Rain”.In 2010-2011 she studied at GITIS at the variety department, acting and directing course (masters Valery Borisovich Garkalin and Mikhail Borisovich Borisov). She left of her own free will.After that, only the fourth time I entered the Moscow Art Theater School - on the course of Viktor Anatolyevich Ryzhakov. The young troupe “Julian Ensemble” grew out of the course. Now Varvara is the leading actress of the project.She starred in the program “Clever Men and Smart Men” on Channel One as an assistant to the presenter. She worked in the understudy enterprise with such actors as Vladimir Bolshov, Evgenia Dobrovolskaya, Oscar Kuchera and Viktor Loginov.The actress made her film debut in the detective series “The Krapivin Case,” which was first shown on NTV in 2010. This was followed by small roles in projects such as the lyrical comedy “Dove”, the drama “Kino about Alekseev” directed by Mikhail Segal and “Dislike” by Andrei Zvyagintsev.In 2019, Varvara Shmykova played one of the key roles in the TV series “Chiki,” directed by Eduard Oganesyan. Colleagues on the set of Varvara were Irina Nosova, Irina Gorbacheva and Alena MikhailovaShe voiced the cartoon “Fairies”, the TV series “Hannah Montana” and “High school musical”. Participates in the #Stichoz project