Helle Virkner
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.
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Movies (45)
Skide godt, Balling!
2005
Trækfugle
as Elsa
2001
Flickering Lights
as Tante Beate
2000
The Kingdom II
as Emma Mortensen
1998
The Kingdom
as Emma Mogensen
1994
Topsy Turvy
1983
Watch Your Back, Professor!
as Fru Andersen
1977
Kassen stemmer
1976
Bertram og Lisa
1975
Nineteen Red Roses
as Marianne Durant
1974
The Olsen Gang Runs Amok
as Hallandsens sekretær
1973
The Olsen Gang's Big Score
as Fru des Staranwalts
1972
The Olsen Gang in Jutland
as Karen
1971
Tjærehandleren
as Elna, Verners kone
1971
Our Home Is Our Castle
as Ellen Olsen
1971
Revolution My A..
as Frk. Nyborg
1970
The Only Way
as Ruth Stein
1970
Det var en lørdag aften
1968
Old Maids
as Bettina Eriksen
1966
Mor bag rattet
as Lykke Jeppsen
1965
Landmandsliv
as Frida von Rambow - grevinde
1965
Passer Babysitting Girls
as Fru Henriksen
1965
Death Comes at High Noon
as Eva Lindberg
1964
Dust for all the Money
as Bodil Henriksen
1963
Peters landlov
as Minna Berg
1963
Still Dust on the Brain
as Fru Henriksen
1962
Den kære familie
as Emilie
1962
Dust on the Brain
as Fru Bodil Henriksen
1961
Cirkus Buster
1961
Poeten og Lillemor i forårshumør
as Lillemor
1961
The Poet and Lillemor and Lotte
as Lillemor
1960
Onkel Bill fra New York
as Susanne Høj
1959
The Poet and the Little Mother
as Lillemor
1959
3 må man være
as Elisabeth Halling
1959
Mor skal giftes
as Eva
1958
Over alle grænser
as Vera
1958
Cupid on the Phone
as Bitten, Josefs forlovede
1957
Englen i sort
1957
Tante Tut fra Paris
as Tove / Lille Tut
1956
Kispus
as Eva Møller
1956
På tro og love
as Vera Gimmer
1955
The bride from Dragstrup
as Helene Dragstrup
1955
Himlen er blaa
as Fru Lauritzen
1954
Hendes store aften
as Marianne Friis
1954
Sunstroke
as Mona Miller - Mannequin
1953
