She became an actress at the age of seventeen, when she performed in the inauguration of the Odéon Theatre in 1859 under the name Hanna Stjernblad.
Her acting career does not appear to have been significant as she is not mentioned much in theater history, and may have ended when she became the mistress of the king.
She suddenly appeared as the hostess on the King's country estate Bellevue in the summer of 1860.
At the opening of parliament in 1862, a paper reported: "Among the public people, who was present at the act, a certain miss - blad was noticed, escorted by two uniformed butlers to the event."
In 1876, she married the officer Adolf Tersmeden, who became a baron and a landlord upon his father's death.