Helle Virkner
Acting
Born September 15, 1925 · 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.
Films (56)
Skide godt, Balling!
2005
Trækfugle
2001
Flickering Lights
2000
The Kingdom II
1998
The Kingdom
1994
Topsy Turvy
1983
Watch Your Back, Professor!
1977
Kassen stemmer
1976
Bertram og Lisa
1975
Nineteen Red Roses
1974
The Olsen Gang Runs Amok
1973
The Olsen Gang's Big Score
1972
The Olsen Gang in Jutland
1971
Tjærehandleren
1971
Our Home Is Our Castle
1971
Revolution My A..
1970
The Only Way
1970
Det var en lørdag aften
1968
Old Maids
1966
Mor bag rattet
1965
Landmandsliv
1965
Passer Babysitting Girls
1965
Death Comes at High Noon
1964
Dust for all the Money
1963
Peters landlov
1963
Still Dust on the Brain
1962
Den kære familie
1962
Dust on the Brain
1961
Cirkus Buster
1961
Poeten og Lillemor i forårshumør
1961
The Poet and Lillemor and Lotte
1960
Onkel Bill fra New York
1959
The Poet and the Little Mother
1959
3 må man være
1959
Mor skal giftes
1958
Over alle grænser
1958
Cupid on the Phone
1957
Englen i sort
1957
Tante Tut fra Paris
1956
Kispus
1956
På tro og love
1955
The bride from Dragstrup
1955
Himlen er blaa
1954
Hendes store aften
1954
Sunstroke
1953
For freedom and justice
1949
Hvor er Far
1948
Penge som græs
1948
My Name Is Petersen
1947
Take What You Want
1947
We Meet at Tove's
1946
Eight Chords
1944
Frihed, lighed og Louise
1944
Spurve under taget
1944
En pige uden lige
1943
Søren Søndervold
1942