[1][2] Christophersen began her career as a stage actress at the Casino Theatre as a member of the ensemble cast in 1884.

The next year, she became a regular cast member at the Royal Danish Theatre, taking small parts there until her departure in 1897.

[4] She joined her father on an operatic concert tour in 1894, singing excerpts from Faust, which began her career as a singer.

[2] She was the first woman in Denmark to be appointed the director of a theatre (though widows had previously taken over their late husbands' roles) and held the position until 1914.

[1] In 1919, she became the director of a traveling theatre company which performed operettas and dramas, starring Ellen Gottschalch and Berthe Qvistgaard, among others.

She was the daughter of the opera singer Harald Edvard Christensen and his wife Ernesta Felicita Simonsen, who also came from a family of musicians.