Helle Virkner
Acting
Born: 1925-09-15 in Gammel Rye, Aarhus, Denmark
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
The Kingdom
Emma Mogensen
The House at Christianshavn
Fru. Olsen
Matador
Elisabeth Friis
Taxa
Fruen
Station "Knock on Wood": The Gufol Mystery
Fru Andersen
Tjærehandleren
Elna, Verners kone
Flickering Lights
Tante Beate
Topsy Turvy
Peters landlov
Minna Berg
Cirkus Buster
The Kingdom
Emma Mogensen
The Kingdom II
Emma Mortensen
The Only Way
Ruth Stein
Kassen stemmer
Tante Tut fra Paris
Tove / Lille Tut
The Olsen Gang in Jutland
Karen
Sunstroke
Mona Miller - Mannequin
3 må man være
Elisabeth Halling
Nineteen Red Roses
Marianne Durant
We Meet at Tove's
Den kære familie
Emilie
Dust on the Brain
Fru Bodil Henriksen
Hvor er Far
Mor skal giftes
Eva
Eight Chords
The Olsen Gang's Big Score
Fru des Staranwalts
The Olsen Gang Runs Amok
Hallandsens sekretær
Take What You Want
Britta Wulff
Det var en lørdag aften
The Poet and the Little Mother
Lillemor
Old Maids
Bettina Eriksen
Cupid on the Phone
Bitten, Josefs forlovede
Over alle grænser
Vera
Englen i sort
Poeten og Lillemor i forårshumør
Lillemor
Death Comes at High Noon
Eva Lindberg
Hendes store aften
Marianne Friis
Frihed, lighed og Louise
Skide godt, Balling!
