[1] Born in Piikkiö, Gerda Wrede attended the Swedish Theatre's acting school in Helsinki between 1914 and 1916.
After finishing her training, she worked at the theatre as an actor until 1921, and then again from 1927 to 1928.
For a period she was also the theatre's stage manager and from 1954 to 1959 she was its deputy director.
[1] Wrede also worked as a director on several Shakespeare productions, including Hamlet, which the theatre performed at Kronborg Castle in Denmark in 1947.
[2] She was the aunt of the film and theatre director Caspar Wrede.