Elvina Teresia "Elly" Kjølstad (née Nielsen, October 3, 1850 – August 30, 1930) was a Norwegian stage actress.
[1][2][3] Elly Kjølstad was the daughter of the journeyman Niels Christian Nielsen and Marte Elisabeth Olsen (Larsen).
On August 31, 1873, she married the orthopedist and lawyer Thorvald Nils Gotfrid Essendrop Kjølstad (1832–1910).
[6] Elly Kjølstad was a pupil of the Danish theater director Frederik Adolph Cetti in her hometown of Bergen.
She made her stage debut with Cetti's company in the autumn of 1870 in the play Syv militære Piger.