Helle Virkner
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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
Credits
Flickering Lights (2000)
as Tante Beate
The Kingdom (1994)
as Emma Mogensen
The Kingdom II (1998)
as Emma Mortensen
Kassen stemmer (1976)
Actor
The Only Way (1970)
as Ruth Stein
The Olsen Gang's Big Score (1972)
as Fru des Staranwalts
Cirkus Buster (1961)
Actor
The Olsen Gang Runs Amok (1973)
as Hallandsens sekretær
Topsy Turvy (1983)
Actor
Den kære familie (1962)
as Emilie
Bertram og Lisa (1975)
Actor
Our Home Is Our Castle (1971)
as Ellen Olsen
Tjærehandleren (1971)
as Elna, Verners kone
Sunstroke (1953)
as Mona Miller - Mannequin
3 må man være (1959)
as Elisabeth Halling
Nineteen Red Roses (1974)
as Marianne Durant
Old Maids (1966)
as Bettina Eriksen
På tro og love (1955)
as Vera Gimmer
Watch Your Back, Professor! (1977)
as Fru Andersen
The Olsen Gang in Jutland (1971)
as Karen
Take What You Want (1947)
as Britta Wulff
Kispus (1956)
as Eva Møller
Dust for all the Money (1963)
as Bodil Henriksen
Landmandsliv (1965)
as Frida von Rambow - grevinde
Tante Tut fra Paris (1956)
as Tove / Lille Tut
En pige uden lige (1943)
Actor
For freedom and justice (1949)
as Maria
We Meet at Tove's (1946)
Actor
Revolution My A.. (1970)
as Frk. Nyborg
Hendes store aften (1954)
as Marianne Friis
Dust on the Brain (1961)
as Fru Bodil Henriksen
Passer Babysitting Girls (1965)
as Fru Henriksen
Cupid on the Phone (1957)
as Bitten, Josefs forlovede
The Poet and the Little Mother (1959)
as Lillemor
My Name Is Petersen (1947)
Actor
Mor skal giftes (1958)
as Eva
Peters landlov (1963)
as Minna Berg
Det var en lørdag aften (1968)
Actor
Søren Søndervold (1942)
Actor
Frihed, lighed og Louise (1944)
Actor
Spurve under taget (1944)
as En halvvoksen Pige
Poeten og Lillemor i forårshumør (1961)
as Lillemor
Eight Chords (1944)
Actor
Hvor er Far (1948)
Actor
Still Dust on the Brain (1962)
as Fru Henriksen
Englen i sort (1957)
Actor
The bride from Dragstrup (1955)
as Helene Dragstrup
Trækfugle (2001)
as Elsa
Himlen er blaa (1954)
as Fru Lauritzen
Onkel Bill fra New York (1959)
as Susanne Høj
The Poet and Lillemor and Lotte (1960)
as Lillemor
Skide godt, Balling! (2005)
Actor
Penge som græs (1948)
as Anne-Marie
Death Comes at High Noon (1964)
as Eva Lindberg
Over alle grænser (1958)
as Vera
Mor bag rattet (1965)
as Lykke Jeppsen