- Born
- Died
- Birth nameAda Egede-Nissen
- Daughter of famous Norwegian politician, Adam Egede-Nissen. Stage debut in 1916, thereafter a silent movie career in Germany until 1920. There she started a production company together with her two older sisters: Aud Richter and Gerd Grieg. She was very popular in her own series of crime dramas, under the name "Ada Van Ehlers". Later she became a character actress at the national theater in Oslo from 1933 to 1969.- IMDb Mini Biography By: pekka trondsen
- SpouseHugo Kramm(1920 - April 26, 1958) (his death, 2 children)
- Two brothers and four sisters were also actors: Aud Richter, Gerd Grieg ,Oscar Egede-Nissen, Stig Egede-Nissen, Lill Egede-Nissen and Gøril Havrevold. One daughter, Ilse Kramm, is an actress, as well.
- She appeared in the 1928 Norwegian-German co production of Schneeschuhbanditen opposite her sister Aud Egede-Nissen.
- After her husband joined the Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra in 1924 they moved to Oslo and she worked at Det Nye Teater (The New Theatre) from 1925 until 1928, the Centralteatret (Central Theatre) from 1928 to 1934 and later at the Nationaltheatret (National Theatre).
- Kramm spent several decades on Norwegian stages in productions by Henrik Ibsen, August Strindberg, Tennessee Williams and Arthur Miller.
- When she was eleven years old, the family moved to Stavanger, where she began studying at the Stavanger Faste Scene (Stavanger Fixed Scene) theatre.
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