[1] Schøyen trained as an actress at the National Theatre from 1905 to 1906, and she had her debut at the Fahlstrøm Theater in 1906.

When Alice in Wonderland was dubbed into Norwegian in 1951, Schøyen played one of the voices.

[3] She was a master of the Northern Norwegian dialect and played the grandmother of Bodø (nicknamed after a town in northern Norway) in one of the Stompa films,[4][5] based on the Jennings novels.

[2] She married the entomologist Thor Hiorth Schøyen (1885–1961) on June 19, 1910.

[1] Their daughter was the actress Vivi Schøyen (1918–2014), who was the mother of the journalist Hege Duckert (born 1962).