[1][2][3] Agnethe Schibsted-Hansson was born in Bergen, Norway to the actor Christian Otto Emil Schibsted and Elisabeth Cathrine Strøm.

[1] Agnethe Schibsted-Hansson debuted on April 20, 1891, at the Christiania Theater in the role of Valborg in En fallit.

Schibsted-Hansson became permanently engaged with the National Theatre in Oslo in 1912 after having periodically appeared there since its opening in 1899.

[5] She excelled as a character actor, with a robust mood for creating realistic Oslo figures in Oskar Braaten's comedies.

Among other things, Schibsted-Hansson made an impression as Dobbelt-Petra in Tancred Ibsen's film adaptation of Den store barnedåpen (The Great Christening, 1931).