She was the daughter of the torpedo lieutenant Karl August Kihle (1873–1953) and Helga Josephine (née Johannesdatter, 1876–1959).
[4] In 1931, Kihle married Finn Myklegaard (1901–1986),[5] who was an editor and owner of a publishing house.
[6] Kihle debuted at the Central Theater in 1923 as Gerty in Der keusche Lebemann (The Chaste Libertine, Norwegian title: Levemanden) by Franz Arnold and Ernst Bach.
[7][8] She saw great success as a guest performer at the Apollo Theater in Copenhagen in 1931, where she starred as Pussy Angora in Unter Geschäftsaufsicht (Business in Distress, Norwegian title: Pussy) by the same authors.
[9][10] On a tour during the Ibsen jubilee in 1928, she played Ingrid, the Green-Clad Woman, and Anitra in Peer Gynt.