She had her debut in the fall of 1893 in Copenhagen's Casino Theater as the title character in Victorien Sardou's Dora.

[1] She went on to play Magda in Hermann Sudermann's Homeland as well as the title character in Alexandre Dumas' The Lady of the Camellias.

[1] In the fall of 1896 she changed to the Royal Danish Theatre, where she had her debut as Martha in Ibsen's The Pillars of Society.

She starred in a number of unsuccessful films by J. Gordon Edwards, e.g. Anna Karenina (which is now considered lost[3]) The Song of Hate, Should a Mother Tell, A Woman's Resurrection, and The Celebrated Scandal.

[1] In 1896, she married the writer, journalist and director of Gyldendal, Peter Nansen (1861–1918).