After graduating from secondary school, Ekaterina entered preparatory courses at VGIK . In 1999 she graduated with honors from the acting faculty of the Higher Theater School named after M. FROM. Shchepkina (workshop N. N. Afonina ).
Upon graduation, Klimova was invited by the director Boris Morozov to the Central Academic Theater of the Russian Army to play the role of Desdemona in the play "Othello". In 2001, for this role, the actress received the “Crystal Rose of Viktor Rozov ” award in the category “Actors under 30”. She taught stage speech and acting at a children's modeling agency, worked in advertising on radio and television. Songs performed by Ekaterina sound in the television series " Games in the Thrower ", " Poor Nastya " (romance "Oh, if my sadness ..." ), " Boiling Point ", in the musical " Bureau of Happiness ", starred in the newsreel " Wick ". She worked at the Sergei Vinogradov Theater Company ; participates in P. AND. Stein and plays in an entreprise .
Klimova's debut in cinema took place in 2001, when she starred in the cameo role of Jeanne d'Albret in Karen Shakhnazarov 's tragicomic phantasmagoria " Poisons, or the World History of Poisoning ". The first big role was expected for the 23-year-old actress in the same year in the adventurous crime television series Throwing Games, where the adventures of a young mistress abounded in erotic scenes. Subsequently, Klimova often performed on the screen and stage the role of a lover or a wife with her second husband, actor Igor Petrenko ("We are from the future 2", "Dreams from plasticine", "Moscow windows", "Sins of the fathers", "Cancellation of all restrictions"), and among the costs of the acting profession, she regretfully mentioned that “ "you have to lie in bed with some stranger and pretend love" ”.
Klimova played in the films " Storm Gates " and " Antikiller D. K. ", in the TV series " Poor Nastya ", " Escape ", " Boiling Point ". One of the most memorable was the role of the nurse Nina Polyakova, played by Klimova in the dilogy "We are from the future" (films " We are from the future " and " We are from the future 2 "). In this film, Klimova sang the romance " "Thank you for everything, good friend ..." " to the poems of Elizabeth Stewart , which became widely popular and very soon turned out to be prophetic for the actress. The timbre of Klimova's voice was assessed by musicologists as soft, velvety, unusually warm. In 2012, to the vocals of Klimova and the music of Ivan Burlyaev (including a rap fragment), figure skaters and former spouses Tatyana Navka and Alexander Zhulin performed a nostalgic dance of memories as part of the television show “ Ice Age. Professional Cup ".
In 2012, in the alcoholic-romantic comedy "Date" directed by Yusup Bakhshiyev, Klimova appears as a sexy teacher, a very teetotaler, "clever and beautiful woman with long legs from under a small fuchsia dress." The observer of the Gazeta.ru publication drew attention to the inability to tempt the heroine of Catherine with palaces and diamonds, noted the actress in the scene of rental on a motorcycle across all Moscow, lying on a frame with her back and with outstretched legs. The film itself is rated as an epigonic eclectic with a set of disparate, impressive episodes based on the American film Blind Date (1987) with Bruce Willis and the prototype of Klimova performed by Kim Basinger.
In 2013 she played one of the main roles - a successful and successful TV presenter in the film "Season Icon". Klimova's character is a typical glamorous inhabitant of glossy worlds, idly wandering from one fashionable party to another, but rapidly transforming with the appearance of a real strong feeling in life.
In 2013-2014, she starred in Lviv in the adventure spy series by S. Ginzburg " Wolf Sun ", which, based on historical events, takes place in the early 1920s on the border of Soviet Ukraine and Poland. Participation in this film turned out to be an important event in the personal life of the actress: on the set she met her third husband Gela Meskhi.
In the summer of 2014, Channel One showed a three-part series " Kuprin ", where Klimova starred in a 4-episode film adaptation of the story " Duel " directed by Andrei Malyukov . The actress got a psychologically difficult supporting role - a seductive, flirtatious and dissolute mistress of the " "collection of buttons" ", a temptress of the young second lieutenant Romashov, a colleague who was chivalrous and tragically in love with his wife. According to critics, Klimova piercingly and authentically conveyed the inner essence of the frustrating character of Raisa Peterson; The strong side of the image of a young, but already experienced seducer in a duet with the romantic Nikita Efremov was the unbridled passionarity characteristic of the actress, the burning play of the eyes, sensual sign language and almost ballet plasticity. In the scene of the officers' picnic, Ekaterina performed a rarely-heard romance by E. St. George's “Why love, why suffer? ”, However, the operatic heights of Klimova this time did not submit.
From April to August 2014, Catherine in St. Petersburg starred as the maid of honor Anna Vyrubova in the historical series directed by Andrei Malyukov “ Grigory R. ", Based on documentary evidence about the life of Grigory Rasputin . When creating an artistic image of a lady-in-waiting, who is neither internally nor externally similar to herself, an important acting task for Klimova was not to distort the fate and character of the real person, who left a mark on the chronicles. The script for the film was based, in particular, on the diaries of Klimova's character, Anna Vyrubova. In the frame, Catherine wears genuine 19th-century shoes, her dresses and costumes were sewn according to old patterns. The most valuable, historically convincing acting works of the film, embodying the strength and indomitability of the Russian spirit, are recognized as the roles of Klimova and the “Siberian elder” ( Vladimir Mashkov ), permeated with passion and dramatic intensity ( Vladimir Mashkov ).
In the second half of 2014, Klimova starred in Ukraine in the melodrama Women in Love and the battle drama According to the Laws of War, which takes place during the German invasion of Kiev in the summer and autumn of 1941, the actress plays the role of a special department investigator ... A feature of the shooting that lasted six months in Kiev was its extreme conditions: the actors were regularly in a cold basement and “ "breathed mold in unbearable conditions" ”. In Moscow, Ekaterina starred in the TV series "Lucy Gurchenko". In St. Petersburg, Klimova took part in the film project “Plague. A new saga about the 1990s ”. In 2015, she starred in Moscow in the mystical detective story "Guardian".
In the 2014-2015 season, she played in the performances Boeing-Boeing, Conspiracy in English based on E. Scribe 's play A Glass of Water, as well as the main role in the play The Master and Margarita at the Mikhail Bulgakov Theater ( director Sergei Aldonin ). In the spring of 2015, according to the performer of the role of the Master of Actor Mikhail Khimichev, adjustments were made to the mise-en-scenes in connection with the fourth pregnancy of Klimova.
In November 2015, after the birth of her fourth child, the actress tried herself in a new role - she voiced one of the characters in the cartoon "The Little Prince ".
November 17, 2015 Klimova for the first time after the birth of her fourth child appeared in public and took part in the release of the TV show " Evening Urgant " on the occasion of the premiere of the series "Women in Love" on Channel One.