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