Known For
Acting
Born
Sep 15, 1925
Died
Jun 10, 2009
Place of Birth
Gammel Rye, Aarhus, Denmark
Credits
61 titles
Helle Virkner
Biography
Helle Genie Lotinga was born in Aarhus to Jewish rentier Moritz Lotinga and Ellen Larsine (née Rasmussen). Her parents divorced when she was 5, at which point she moved with her mother from Old Rye to Copenhagen. Her paternal family escaped to Sweden doing the occupation of Denmark in 1943. Helle changed her last name from Lotinga to Virkner in 1944. Helle Virkner was married three times. First to actor William Rosenberg (1944–1949), then to actor Ebbe Rode (1949–1958), and her third marriage was to the then Foreign Minister of Denmark and later Prime Minister Jens Otto Krag (1914–1978), with whom she had one child, daughter Astrid Helene 'Søsser' Krag, a journalist and former model. Krag also had a soon from a previous relationship named Jens Christian Stephan Krag. Helle and Søsser lived together in sheltered housing in Charlottenlund in the last years of Helle's life.
Known For
Filmography
Skide godt, Balling!
Trækfugle
Elsa
Flickering Lights
Tante Beate
The Kingdom II
Emma Mortensen
Station 7-9-13: Gufol mysteriet
Fru Andersen
Taxa
Fruen
The Kingdom
Emma Mogensen
The Kingdom
Emma Mogensen
Topsy Turvy
Matador
Elisabeth Friis
Watch Your Back, Professor!
Fru Andersen
Kassen stemmer
Bertram og Lisa
Nineteen Red Roses
Marianne Durant
The Olsen Gang Runs Amok
Hallandsens sekretær
The Olsen Gang's Big Score
Fru des Staranwalts
The Olsen Gang in Jutland
Karen
Tjærehandleren
Elna, Verners kone
Our Home Is Our Castle
Ellen Olsen
Revolution My A..
Frk. Nyborg
The House at Christianshavn
Fru. Olsen
The Only Way
Ruth Stein
Det var en lørdag aften
Old Maids
Bettina Eriksen
Mor bag rattet
Lykke Jeppsen
Landmandsliv
Frida von Rambow - grevinde
Passer Babysitting Girls
Fru Henriksen
Death Comes at High Noon
Eva Lindberg
Dust for all the Money
Bodil Henriksen
Peters landlov
Minna Berg
Still Dust on the Brain
Fru Henriksen
Den kære familie
Emilie
Dust on the Brain
Fru Bodil Henriksen
Cirkus Buster
Poeten og Lillemor i forårshumør
Lillemor
The Poet and Lillemor and Lotte
Lillemor
Onkel Bill fra New York
Susanne Høj
The Poet and the Little Mother
Lillemor
3 må man være
Elisabeth Halling
Mor skal giftes
Eva
Over alle grænser
Vera
Cupid on the Phone
Bitten, Josefs forlovede
Englen i sort
Tante Tut fra Paris
Tove / Lille Tut
Kispus
Eva Møller
På tro og love
Vera Gimmer
The bride from Dragstrup
Helene Dragstrup
Himlen er blaa
Fru Lauritzen
Hendes store aften
Marianne Friis
Sunstroke
Mona Miller - Mannequin