Helle Virkner
Acting • Born 1925-09-15 – Died 2009-06-10
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.
Filmography
61 credits
Flickering Lights
Movie • 2000
Tante Beate
The Olsen Gang in Jutland
Movie • 1971
Karen
Old Maids
Movie • 1966
Bettina Eriksen
Passer Babysitting Girls
Movie • 1965
Fru Henriksen
Dust for all the Money
Movie • 1963
Bodil Henriksen
Dust on the Brain
Movie • 1961
Fru Bodil Henriksen
Poeten og Lillemor i forårshumør
Movie • 1961
Lillemor
Landmandsliv
Movie • 1965
Frida von Rambow - grevinde
Our Home Is Our Castle
Movie • 1971
Ellen Olsen
The bride from Dragstrup
Movie • 1955
Helene Dragstrup
Mor bag rattet
Movie • 1965
Lykke Jeppsen
På tro og love
Movie • 1955
Vera Gimmer
Mor skal giftes
Movie • 1958
Eva
Still Dust on the Brain
Movie • 1962
Fru Henriksen
Sunstroke
Movie • 1953
Mona Miller - Mannequin
The Poet and Lillemor and Lotte
Movie • 1960
Lillemor
Den kære familie
Movie • 1962
Emilie
The Only Way
Movie • 1970
Ruth Stein
The Kingdom
Movie • 1994
Emma Mogensen
The Kingdom II
Movie • 1998
Emma Mortensen
Onkel Bill fra New York
Movie • 1959
Susanne Høj
Revolution My A..
Movie • 1970
Frk. Nyborg
Kispus
Movie • 1956
Eva Møller
Hendes store aften
Movie • 1954
Marianne Friis
Take What You Want
Movie • 1947
Britta Wulff
Death Comes at High Noon
Movie • 1964
Eva Lindberg
3 må man være
Movie • 1959
Elisabeth Halling
Englen i sort
Movie • 1957
Frihed, lighed og Louise
Movie • 1944
Himlen er blaa
Movie • 1954
Fru Lauritzen
Cupid on the Phone
Movie • 1957
Bitten, Josefs forlovede
Cirkus Buster
Movie • 1961
Topsy Turvy
Movie • 1983
Kassen stemmer
Movie • 1976
The Olsen Gang's Big Score
Movie • 1972
Fru des Staranwalts
The Olsen Gang Runs Amok
Movie • 1973
Hallandsens sekretær
Eight Chords
Movie • 1944
Over alle grænser
Movie • 1958
Vera
Peters landlov
Movie • 1963
Minna Berg
The Poet and the Little Mother
Movie • 1959
Lillemor
My Name Is Petersen
Movie • 1947
Nineteen Red Roses
Movie • 1974
Marianne Durant
Søren Søndervold
Movie • 1942
We Meet at Tove's
Movie • 1946
Tante Tut fra Paris
Movie • 1956
Tove / Lille Tut
Det var en lørdag aften
Movie • 1968
En pige uden lige
Movie • 1943
For freedom and justice
Movie • 1949
Maria
Watch Your Back, Professor!
Movie • 1977
Fru Andersen
Penge som græs
Movie • 1948
Anne-Marie
Spurve under taget
Movie • 1944
En halvvoksen Pige
Tjærehandleren
Movie • 1971
Elna, Verners kone
Hvor er Far
Movie • 1948
Bertram og Lisa
Movie • 1975
Trækfugle
Movie • 2001
Elsa
Skide godt, Balling!
Movie • 2005
The House at Christianshavn
TV • 1970
Fru. Olsen
The Kingdom
TV • 1994
Emma Mogensen
Station 7-9-13: Gufol mysteriet
TV • 1997
Fru Andersen
Matador
TV • 1978
Elisabeth Friis
Taxa
TV • 1997
Fruen