She was born on February 3, 1906 in Odessa. Dad's an actor. Mother is a housewife. She studied at the Kyiv Ballet School Chistyakova.
1919. - Playing in an opera crowd.
1920s – Work in the Tashkent Opera House as a dancer. Marriage. My husband is a singer of this theater. Moving to Moscow, registration on the labor exchange. Operetta work. My husband left Moscow in search of work in the opera. Refusal to go to another city.
1930s, beginning. The most beautiful and richest actress of pre-war Moscow. Work in the music hall with Tenin, Martinson, Lepko, Rina Zelena, Mironova. The Broadway spirit is the same show every day for three months. The main role in the play “Under the Dome of the Circus”.
1934. Invitation of the director Y. Protazanov to play in the cinema. Shooting with Anatoly Korov in the film “Puppetches”.
1936. The closure of the music hall under the pretext that it is not a Soviet theater.
1936-1941. - Artist of the Moscow Theater of Satire.
1941, September 13. Departure to the front in the location of the army of Rokossovsky in the front concert brigade. Getting the brigade surrounded, and then captured when trying to get out of the encirclement. Stage in the column of prisoners of war in the commandant's office of Vyazma. The release of artists by the German commandant.
1941, October 1944. Forced performances for food. Forced retreat with the Germans to Berlin. Ordeals in Germany.
1945, Nov. - Return to Moscow. Passport delivery to the police for registration. Immediate search, arrest. Lubyansk prison. The sentence of the “troika” under Art. 58-3 (aiding the enemy) is 4 years of camps.
1946-1949. - Pechorlag stage. Camp in Vologda. Work - pulling logs from the river, after ice - in the sanitary unit. Application from the Vorkuta Theatre. Vorkutlag. Getting a pass and going from zone to theater without convoy. Roles in the plays “Mademoiselle Nitush”, “You call Taimyr”, Diana in “Dog in the manger” and Elizabeth in “Maria Stewart”. Performances of Bayader and Eleven Unknowns in her own production. Meet A.Y. Kapler. Marriage.
1949, 13 November. - Release. Work at the Vorkuta Theatre.
1953. - A.Y. Kapler's release.
1953. Return to Moscow to the Theater of Satire. Friendship with actress Tatiana Pelzer.
1990s, beginning. - Poverty. Lack of theatre roles. Shooting in a TV show with a story about his fate. Invitation to act in films, interest of television. Appointment of presidential pension. Order of Friendship of Peoples.
1994. After almost a decade of hiatus – getting the role of the Insurance Agent in the benefit of Olga Aroseva “How to sew an old woman” based on the play by John Patrick. In 1994, Valentina Tokarskaya was awarded the title of People’s Artist of Russia (bypassing the title “Honored”).
1996, Feb. — Benefis V.G. Tokarskaya on the stage of the Moscow Theater of Satire.
1996, on the night of September 30 to October 1. - V.G. Tokarskaya died.
She played seven roles in the movie.
About Tokarskaya was filmed "Valentina Georgievna, Your Exit!" (diary Veronika Tokarskaya). In the theater she played two premieres.