- Known For
- Acting
- Born
- September 15, 1925
- Place of Birth
- Gammel Rye, Aarhus, Denmark
- Died
- June 10, 2009
Helle Virkner
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
Trækfugle
2001 · Elsa
movieFlickering Lights
2000 · Tante Beate
movieThe Kingdom II
1998 · Emma Mortensen
tvStation 7-9-13: Gufol mysteriet
1997 · Fru Andersen
tvTaxa
1997 · Fruen
movieThe Kingdom
1994 · Emma Mogensen
tvThe Kingdom
1994 · Emma Mogensen
movieTopsy Turvy
1983
tvMatador
1978 · Elisabeth Friis
movieWatch Your Back, Professor!
1977 · Fru Andersen
movieKassen stemmer
1976
movieBertram og Lisa
1975
movieNineteen Red Roses
1974 · Marianne Durant
movieThe Olsen Gang Runs Amok
1973 · Hallandsens sekretær
movieThe Olsen Gang's Big Score
1972 · Fru des Staranwalts
movieThe Olsen Gang in Jutland
1971 · Karen
movieTjærehandleren
1971 · Elna, Verners kone
movieOur Home Is Our Castle
1971 · Ellen Olsen
movieRevolution My A..
1970 · Frk. Nyborg
tvThe House at Christianshavn
1970 · Fru. Olsen
movieThe Only Way
1970 · Ruth Stein
movieDet var en lørdag aften
1968
movieOld Maids
1966 · Bettina Eriksen
movieMor bag rattet
1965 · Lykke Jeppsen
movieLandmandsliv
1965 · Frida von Rambow - grevinde
moviePasser Babysitting Girls
1965 · Fru Henriksen
movieDeath Comes at High Noon
1964 · Eva Lindberg
movieDust for all the Money
1963 · Bodil Henriksen
moviePeters landlov
1963 · Minna Berg
movieStill Dust on the Brain
1962 · Fru Henriksen
movieDen kære familie
1962 · Emilie
movieDust on the Brain
1961 · Fru Bodil Henriksen
movieCirkus Buster
1961
moviePoeten og Lillemor i forårshumør
1961 · Lillemor
movieThe Poet and Lillemor and Lotte
1960 · Lillemor
movieOnkel Bill fra New York
1959 · Susanne Høj
movieThe Poet and the Little Mother
1959 · Lillemor
movie3 må man være
1959 · Elisabeth Halling
movieMor skal giftes
1958 · Eva
movieOver alle grænser
1958 · Vera
movieCupid on the Phone
1957 · Bitten, Josefs forlovede
movieEnglen i sort
1957
movieTante Tut fra Paris
1956 · Tove / Lille Tut
movieKispus
1956 · Eva Møller
moviePå tro og love
1955 · Vera Gimmer
movieThe bride from Dragstrup
1955 · Helene Dragstrup
movieHimlen er blaa
1954 · Fru Lauritzen
movieHendes store aften
1954 · Marianne Friis
movieSunstroke
1953 · Mona Miller - Mannequin
movieFor freedom and justice
1949 · Maria
movieHvor er Far
1948
moviePenge som græs
1948 · Anne-Marie
movieMy Name Is Petersen
1947
movieTake What You Want
1947 · Britta Wulff
movieWe Meet at Tove's
1946
movieEight Chords
1944
movieFrihed, lighed og Louise
1944
movieSpurve under taget
1944 · En halvvoksen Pige
movieEn pige uden lige
1943
movieSøren Søndervold
1942