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