In 1849, at the age of seventeen, she borrowed money from a relative and traveled to Christiania (now Oslo).

The reason given was that the Norwegian actors lacked education, as there were no acting schools in Norway.

That year, however, Laura Gundersen was employed as the first and only Norwegian actor to play at the Christiania Theatre in Oslo, and became as such historical.

She starred as Svanhild, alongside her husband Sigvard as Falk, in the premiere of Henrik Ibsen's Love's Comedy at the Christiania Theatre in 1873.

[4] She played a long row of tragedies; one of the most famous was the premier of Bergljot, a melodrama with orchestra by Edvard Grieg in 1885.