Helle Virkner
Acting
1925-09-15 · Gammel Rye, Aarhus, Denmark
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.
Filmography
Skide godt, Balling!
2005 · Movie
Trækfugle
2001 · Movie
Flickering Lights
2000 · Movie
The Kingdom II
1998 · Movie
Station "Knock on Wood": The Gufol Mystery
1997 · Series
Taxa
1997 · Series
The Kingdom
1994 · Series
The Kingdom
1994 · Movie
Topsy Turvy
1983 · Movie
Matador
1978 · Series
Watch Your Back, Professor!
1977 · Movie
Kassen stemmer
1976 · Movie
Bertram og Lisa
1975 · Movie
Nineteen Red Roses
1974 · Movie
The Olsen Gang Runs Amok
1973 · Movie
The Olsen Gang's Big Score
1972 · Movie
The Olsen Gang in Jutland
1971 · Movie
Tjærehandleren
1971 · Movie
Our Home Is Our Castle
1971 · Movie
Revolution My A..
1970 · Movie
The House at Christianshavn
1970 · Series
The Only Way
1970 · Movie
Det var en lørdag aften
1968 · Movie
Old Maids
1966 · Movie
Mor bag rattet
1965 · Movie
Landmandsliv
1965 · Movie
Passer Babysitting Girls
1965 · Movie
Death Comes at High Noon
1964 · Movie
Dust for all the Money
1963 · Movie
Peters landlov
1963 · Movie
Still Dust on the Brain
1962 · Movie
Den kære familie
1962 · Movie
Dust on the Brain
1961 · Movie
Cirkus Buster
1961 · Movie
Poeten og Lillemor i forårshumør
1961 · Movie
The Poet and Lillemor and Lotte
1960 · Movie
Onkel Bill fra New York
1959 · Movie
The Poet and the Little Mother
1959 · Movie
3 må man være
1959 · Movie
Mor skal giftes
1958 · Movie
Over alle grænser
1958 · Movie
Cupid on the Phone
1957 · Movie
Englen i sort
1957 · Movie
Tante Tut fra Paris
1956 · Movie
Kispus
1956 · Movie
På tro og love
1955 · Movie
The bride from Dragstrup
1955 · Movie
Himlen er blaa
1954 · Movie
Hendes store aften
1954 · Movie
Sunstroke
1953 · Movie
For freedom and justice
1949 · Movie
Hvor er Far
1948 · Movie
Penge som græs
1948 · Movie
My Name Is Petersen
1947 · Movie
Take What You Want
1947 · Movie
We Meet at Tove's
1946 · Movie
Eight Chords
1944 · Movie
Frihed, lighed og Louise
1944 · Movie
Spurve under taget
1944 · Movie
En pige uden lige
1943 · Movie
Søren Søndervold
1942 · Movie