Natasha Ziatikova was born in Vileyka, Belarus. She was one of the founders of "The Miniature Theatre" group in Vileyka High School, where she studied.

There she gained her first theatre experience as an actress, director and script-writer, staging many plays by Russian dramatists as well as Shakespeare, her favourite being Chekhov's The Bear.

In 1996 she became a student of the Linguistic University in Minsk, where she studied English, Swedish, Pedagogics Methodology and Psychology.

She moved to Oslo in 2002.

For the Company, she played Gertrude in Hamlet (2003), and Iokaste in OEDIPVS REX (2003).