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