Zinaida Brovarskaya was born on August 31, 1916 in Station Odessa-Dachnoe, Odessa uyezd, Kherson Governorate, Russian Empire as Zinaida Ivanovna Brovarskaya. She was an actress, known for Kto smeyotsya poslednim (1955), Chasy ostanovilis v polnoch (1959) and Ryadom s vami (1967). She died on February 18, 2005 in Minsk, Belarus.