[3] From 1929 to 1932 she studied English philology at the University of Tartu and, alongside that, singing at Voldemar Mettus's theater studio and with Arno Niitov.
She was invited to join the Vanemuine Drama Company by the theater's director, the writer August Gailit.
[1] In 1940, she moved to Tallinn, where she was an actress and singer at the Estonia Theater for four years, and in the opera choir starting in 1941.
From 1946 to 1949, she participated in the Estonian National Theater in Oldenburg, founded in the British occupation zone by the actor and director Kaarel Söödor.
[3] There, she took a strong interest in Tartu's musical life and participated in the activities of the Vanemuine Cultural Society, which she was elected an honorary member of in January 1996.