Tordis Gjems Selmer (June 2, 1886 – February 15, 1964)[1] was a Norwegian singer.

[3] Selmer took voice lessons in Oslo, Berlin, and London, and she toured the Nordic countries.

[5] She was engaged at the Chat Noir cabaret from 1916 to 1917, and she worked as a culture journalist for the women's magazine Urd from 1925 onward.

After her mother's death in 1926, Selmer ran a boarding house in the family home, Soleglad, which her father had purchased in 1903.

There, among other things, she hosted a cultural café during the Second World War together with the opera singer Randi Helseth (1905–1991).