Helle Virkner
Personal Info
Known for
Acting
Gender
Female
Birthday
1925-09-15
Day of Death
2009-06-10 (83 years old)
Place of Birth
Gammel Rye, Aarhus, Denmark
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.
Known For
Acting
(2005)
(2001)
Trækfugle
as Elsa
(2000)
Flickering Lights
as Tante Beate
(1997)
The Kingdom II
as Emma Mortensen
(1994)
The Kingdom
as Emma Mogensen
(1983)
(1977)
Watch Your Back, Professor!
as Fru Andersen
(1976)
(1975)
(1974)
Nineteen Red Roses
as Marianne Durant
(1973)
The Olsen Gang Runs Amok
as Hallandsen's Secretary
(1972)
The Olsen Gang's Big Score
as Frau des Staranwalts
(1971)
The Olsen Gang in Jutland
as Karen
(1971)
Our Home Is Our Castle
as Ellen Olsen
(1971)
Tjærehandleren
as Elna, Verners kone
(1970)
The Only Way
as Ruth Stein
(1970)
Revolution My A..
as Frk. Nyborg
(1968)
(1966)
Old Maids
as Bettina Eriksen
(1965)
Landmandsliv
as Frida von Rambow - grevinde
(1965)
Mor bag rattet
as Lykke Jeppsen
(1965)
Passer Babysitting Girls
as Fru Henriksen
(1964)
Death Comes at High Noon
as Eva Lindberg
(1963)
Dust for all the Money
as Bodil Henriksen
(1963)
Peters landlov
as Minna Berg
(1962)
Still Dust on the Brain
as Fru Henriksen
(1962)
Den kære familie
as Emilie
(1961)
Dust on the Brain
as Fru Bodil Henriksen
(1961)
(1961)
Poeten og Lillemor i forårshumør
as Lillemor
(1960)
The Poet and Lillemor and Lotte
as Lillemor
(1959)
The Poet and the Little Mother
as Lillemor
(1959)
Onkel Bill fra New York
as Susanne Høj
(1959)
3 må man være
as Elisabeth Halling
(1958)
Mor skal giftes
as Eva
(1958)
Over alle grænser
as Vera
(1957)
(1957)
Cupid on the Phone
as Bitten, Josefs forlovede
(1956)
Kispus
as Eva Møller
(1956)
Tante Tut fra Paris
as Tove / Lille Tut
(1955)
The bride from Dragstrup
as Helene Dragstrup
(1955)
På tro og love
as Vera Gimmer
(1954)
Himlen er blaa
as Fru Lauritzen
(1954)
Hendes store aften
as Marianne Friis
(1953)
Sunstroke
as Mona Miller - Mannequin
(1949)
For freedom and justice
as Maria
(1948)
Penge som græs
as Anne-Marie
(1948)
(1947)
Take What You Want
as Britta Wulff
(1947)
(1946)
(1944)
(1944)
(1944)
Spurve under taget
as En halvvoksen Pige
(1943)
(1942)