Helle Virkner
Acting
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
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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
tvMatador
1978
Elisabeth Friis
movieWatch Your Back, Professor!
1977
Fru Andersen
movieNineteen Red Roses
1974
Marianne Durant
movieThe Olsen Gang Runs Amok
1973
Hallandsens sekretær
movieThe Olsen Gang's Big Score
1972
Fru des Staranwalts
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
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
movieDust on the Brain
1961
Fru Bodil Henriksen
movieOnkel Bill fra New York
1959
Susanne Høj
movie3 må man være
1959
Elisabeth Halling
movieCupid on the Phone
1957
Bitten, Josefs forlovede
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
moviePenge som græs
1948
Anne-Marie
movieTake What You Want
1947
Britta Wulff
movieSpurve under taget
1944
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