Helle Virkner
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.
61 acting credits
Acting · 61
Taxa
1997
The Kingdom
1994
Matador
1978
The House at Christianshavn
1970
Flickering Lights
2000
The Kingdom
1994
The Kingdom II
1998
The Olsen Gang's Big Score
1972
The Olsen Gang in Jutland
1971
Station 7-9-13: Gufol mysteriet
1997
Nineteen Red Roses
1974
Dust for all the Money
1963
Kassen stemmer
1976
The Only Way
1970
Dust on the Brain
1961
Den kære familie
1962
The Olsen Gang Runs Amok
1973
Revolution My A..
1970
Onkel Bill fra New York
1959
Still Dust on the Brain
1962
Passer Babysitting Girls
1965
Hvor er Far
1948
Kispus
1956
Sunstroke
1953
Over alle grænser
1958
Søren Søndervold
1942
Himlen er blaa
1954
Frihed, lighed og Louise
1944
Tante Tut fra Paris
1956
The bride from Dragstrup
1955
Spurve under taget
1944
Old Maids
1966
For freedom and justice
1949
En pige uden lige
1943
Poeten og Lillemor i forårshumør
1961
Watch Your Back, Professor!
1977
Topsy Turvy
1983
The Poet and the Little Mother
1959
We Meet at Tove's
1946
Hendes store aften
1954
På tro og love
1955
Landmandsliv
1965
Bertram og Lisa
1975
Death Comes at High Noon
1964
Our Home Is Our Castle
1971
Trækfugle
2001
Mor bag rattet
1965
Englen i sort
1957
Take What You Want
1947
Eight Chords
1944
Cirkus Buster
1961
The Poet and Lillemor and Lotte
1960
Mor skal giftes
1958
Peters landlov
1963
Cupid on the Phone
1957
Penge som græs
1948
My Name Is Petersen
1947
Det var en lørdag aften
1968
3 må man være
1959
Tjærehandleren
1971
Skide godt, Balling!
2005