Background
She was born in Trondheim as a daughter of teacher Frans Oscar Michelet (1906–1984) and housewife Synnøve Kulseng (1905–1981).
She was born in Trondheim as a daughter of teacher Frans Oscar Michelet (1906–1984) and housewife Synnøve Kulseng (1905–1981).
The family moved to Bærum in 1947, and Michelet graduated from the University of Oslo with a candidate.mag.
Degree. She has worked for the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation from 1967. In the radio from 1973. She contributed to the entertainment programs Nitimen and Reiseradioen, and worked with the weekly satirical radio show Hallo i uken from 1990.
She was its producer from 1993 to 2009.
She has also written several books: Sin egen herre: eventyr og annet ugress (1979), En annen historie (1981) and the novel Ariadnes tråd: et reiseliv (1988). From 1977 to 1979 she was married to Ingjald Ørbeck Sørheim.