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
The Kingdom
Taxa
Matador
The House at Christianshavn
The Kingdom II
The Kingdom
Flickering Lights
The Only Way
All Movies (56)
- Skide godt, Balling!2005
- Trækfugle2001 · as Elsa
- Flickering Lights2000 · as Tante Beate
- The Kingdom II1998 · as Emma Mortensen
- The Kingdom1994 · as Emma Mogensen
- Topsy Turvy1983
- Watch Your Back, Professor!1977 · as Fru Andersen
- Kassen stemmer1976
- Bertram og Lisa1975
- Nineteen Red Roses1974 · as Marianne Durant
- The Olsen Gang Runs Amok1973 · as Hallandsens sekretær
- The Olsen Gang's Big Score1972 · as Fru des Staranwalts
- The Olsen Gang in Jutland1971 · as Karen
- Tjærehandleren1971 · as Elna, Verners kone
- Our Home Is Our Castle1971 · as Ellen Olsen
- Revolution My A..1970 · as Frk. Nyborg
- The Only Way1970 · as Ruth Stein
- Det var en lørdag aften1968
- Old Maids1966 · as Bettina Eriksen
- Mor bag rattet1965 · as Lykke Jeppsen
- Landmandsliv1965 · as Frida von Rambow - grevinde
- Passer Babysitting Girls1965 · as Fru Henriksen
- Death Comes at High Noon1964 · as Eva Lindberg
- Dust for all the Money1963 · as Bodil Henriksen
- Peters landlov1963 · as Minna Berg
- Still Dust on the Brain1962 · as Fru Henriksen
- Den kære familie1962 · as Emilie
- Dust on the Brain1961 · as Fru Bodil Henriksen
- Cirkus Buster1961
- Poeten og Lillemor i forårshumør1961 · as Lillemor
- The Poet and Lillemor and Lotte1960 · as Lillemor
- Onkel Bill fra New York1959 · as Susanne Høj
- The Poet and the Little Mother1959 · as Lillemor
- 3 må man være1959 · as Elisabeth Halling
- Mor skal giftes1958 · as Eva
- Over alle grænser1958 · as Vera
- Cupid on the Phone1957 · as Bitten, Josefs forlovede
- Englen i sort1957
- Tante Tut fra Paris1956 · as Tove / Lille Tut
- Kispus1956 · as Eva Møller
- På tro og love1955 · as Vera Gimmer
- The bride from Dragstrup1955 · as Helene Dragstrup
- Himlen er blaa1954 · as Fru Lauritzen
- Hendes store aften1954 · as Marianne Friis
- Sunstroke1953 · as Mona Miller - Mannequin
- For freedom and justice1949 · as Maria
- Hvor er Far1948
- Penge som græs1948 · as Anne-Marie
- My Name Is Petersen1947
- Take What You Want1947 · as Britta Wulff
- We Meet at Tove's1946
- Eight Chords1944
- Frihed, lighed og Louise1944
- Spurve under taget1944 · as En halvvoksen Pige
- En pige uden lige1943
- Søren Søndervold1942
All TV Shows (5)
- Station 7-9-13: Gufol mysteriet1997 · as Fru Andersen
- Taxa1997 · as Fruen
- The Kingdom1994 · as Emma Mogensen
- Matador1978 · as Elisabeth Friis
- The House at Christianshavn1970 · as Fru. Olsen