At that time it was quite common for women and children in travelling theatre companies to appear on stage as these groups often consisted of actors’ families.
This company took the tradition of Dutch theatre to distant corners of Europe touring the north of Germany and Scandinavia, performing at fairs as well as royal courts such as the one of Swedish Queen Christina (1653).
While in Hamburg, the actress married her colleague, the actor Gillis Nozeman in the Reformed Church of nearby Altona.
Simon Schama in The Embarrassment of Riches notes: “In 1655 the first actress appeared in the Amsterdam theater, strengthening the clergy’s view that it was the sink of the vilest iniquity.
The Netherlands, in spite of its Calvinist character, was a secular society and Amsterdam, the capital of the Dutch Republic, was known for its free and tolerant climate.
She was buried in the Oude Kerk (Old Church) cemetery, now in the heart of Amsterdam's famous red light district.