Klouman was born on May 11, 1918, in
Kristiania, the daughter of the actor and illustrator
Thoralf Klouman and the actress
Borghild Johannessen. She was the sister of the musician
Carsten Klouman. Her grandfather Bernt Johannessen was a prominent actor at the
National Theater in Bergen in the second half of the 19th century; he was also the grandfather of the actor
Per Aabel, the son of the comedian
Hauk Aabel and Svanhild Johannessen, the sister of Borghild Johannessen. Klouman was married to the actor
Karl Ludvig Bugge from 1943 to 1948, and then to Finn Rønneberg Kerr from 1950 until his death in 2001. Klouman debuted at the
Oslo New Theater in 1937 and was later engaged with the
National Theater in Bergen and especially the
Central Theater in Oslo. Klouman appeared in comic plays typical of the time such as
Norman Krasna's
Dear Ruth,
Jens Locher's
Tre må man være (It Has to Be Three), and
Helge Krog's
På solsiden, and in the film
Det kunne vært deg. She also played
Eliza Doolittle in
Pygmalion, operetta roles in
Min søster og jeg (a translation of
Georges Berr's
Ma sœur et moi, My Sister and I) and
Die Csárdásfürstin, and a large complex character role in the psychological thriller
The Gioconda Smile by Aldous Huxley, in which she delivered a sensational performance. Klouman retired from the stage in the early 1950s, but she later starred in a few so-called housewife films. ==Filmography==