Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - 'Yar mai tseren keke Thorvald Ellegaard da Karen Kirstine Nicolaysen, an haife ta ne a Paris. Ellegaard ya yi karatu a gidan wasan kwaikwayo na Paris kuma ya ba da wasan kwaikwayo na Danish na farko a Copenhagen a 1927. Ta yi a duk faɗin Scandinavia da kuma a cikin manyan wuraren kiɗa na Turai. Bayan mamayewar Jamus a Denmark
a 1940, ta kasance a Denmark sannan, a 1943, ta tafi Sweden a matsayin 'yan gudun hijirar siyasa. Ta auri mai zanen Finnish Birger Carlstedt a cikin 1949 kuma ta zama ɗan ƙasar Finnish. Daga 1961 zuwa 1965, ta yi aiki a cikin uku tare da Anja Ignatius da.