Education
Oslo National Academy of the Arts.
Oslo National Academy of the Arts.
After graduating from the Norwegian National Academy of Theatre, she has worked at both Den Nationale Scene and Nationaltheatret (the National Theatre). She is best known for her movie and television roles, that include and Når mørket er forbi (Passing Darkness, 2000). In 2001 she was named one of European films" Shooting Stars by the European Film Promotion.
Mauseth attracted a lot of attention for a nude scene in the 1997 movie Brent av frost, where she and co-star Stig Henrik Hoff had sex on a pile of fish in a row boat.
A controversy erupted when the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation (Norsk Rikskringkasting) later showed the scene out of context and without permission. Norsk Rikskringkasting was originally convicted for unauthorised use of the clip, then acquitted in a court of appeal as being within Norway"s right to quote doctrine, but then finally convicted by the Supreme Court.