[1] Gording studied acting, dance and mime in Vienna under Max Huber, later Joseph Fraenzel.
The exception was during the occupation of Norway by Nazi Germany, when she in 1941 was summoned to the police headquarters at Victoria Terrasse.
She had rejected an order to play in Nazi-controlled radio, and was revoked of her working permit as actress,[1] along with five other actors.
[3] In the fall of 1933 she played in Strindberg's Till Damaskus, and in an adaptation of O'Neill's The Hairy Ape.
She had been decorated as a Knight, First Class of the Order of St. Olav in 1982, and received the Fritt Ord Honorary Award in 1990.