Helle Virkner
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- September 15, 1925
- Died
- June 10, 2009 (aged 83)
- Birthplace
- Gammel Rye, Aarhus, Denmark
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
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Filmography
Skide godt, Balling!
Movie
Trækfugle
Movie · as Elsa
Flickering Lights
Movie · as Tante Beate
The Kingdom II
Movie · as Emma Mortensen
Station "Knock on Wood": The Gufol Mystery
TV · as Fru Andersen · 24 eps
Taxa
TV · as Fruen · 1 ep
The Kingdom
Movie · as Emma Mogensen
The Kingdom
TV · as Emma Mogensen · 3 eps
Topsy Turvy
Movie
Matador
TV · as Elisabeth Friis · 24 eps
Watch Your Back, Professor!
Movie · as Fru Andersen
Kassen stemmer
Movie
Bertram og Lisa
Movie
Nineteen Red Roses
Movie · as Marianne Durant
The Olsen Gang Runs Amok
Movie · as Hallandsens sekretær
The Olsen Gang's Big Score
Movie · as Fru des Staranwalts
The Olsen Gang in Jutland
Movie · as Karen
Our Home Is Our Castle
Movie · as Ellen Olsen
Tjærehandleren
Movie · as Elna, Verners kone
The Only Way
Movie · as Ruth Stein
Revolution My A..
Movie · as Frk. Nyborg
The House at Christianshavn
TV · as Fru. Olsen · 84 eps
Det var en lørdag aften
Movie
Old Maids
Movie · as Bettina Eriksen
Passer Babysitting Girls
Movie · as Fru Henriksen
Landmandsliv
Movie · as Frida von Rambow - grevinde
Mor bag rattet
Movie · as Lykke Jeppsen
Death Comes at High Noon
Movie · as Eva Lindberg
Dust for all the Money
Movie · as Bodil Henriksen
Peters landlov
Movie · as Minna Berg
Still Dust on the Brain
Movie · as Fru Henriksen
Den kære familie
Movie · as Emilie
Dust on the Brain
Movie · as Fru Bodil Henriksen
Poeten og Lillemor i forårshumør
Movie · as Lillemor
Cirkus Buster
Movie
The Poet and Lillemor and Lotte
Movie · as Lillemor
Onkel Bill fra New York
Movie · as Susanne Høj
3 må man være
Movie · as Elisabeth Halling
The Poet and the Little Mother
Movie · as Lillemor
Mor skal giftes
Movie · as Eva
Over alle grænser
Movie · as Vera
Englen i sort
Movie
Cupid on the Phone
Movie · as Bitten, Josefs forlovede
Kispus
Movie · as Eva Møller
Tante Tut fra Paris
Movie · as Tove / Lille Tut
The bride from Dragstrup
Movie · as Helene Dragstrup
På tro og love
Movie · as Vera Gimmer
Hendes store aften
Movie · as Marianne Friis
Himlen er blaa
Movie · as Fru Lauritzen
Sunstroke
Movie · as Mona Miller - Mannequin
For freedom and justice
Movie · as Maria
Penge som græs
Movie · as Anne-Marie
Hvor er Far
Movie
Take What You Want
Movie · as Britta Wulff
My Name Is Petersen
Movie
We Meet at Tove's
Movie
Frihed, lighed og Louise
Movie
Eight Chords
Movie
Spurve under taget
Movie · as En halvvoksen Pige
En pige uden lige
Movie
Søren Søndervold
Movie