Helle Virkner

Helle Virkner

9/15/1925 – 6/10/2009Gammel Rye, Aarhus, Denmark

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 titles)

Movie

Skide godt, Balling!

2005

5.5Movie

Trækfugle

Elsa · 2001

Flickering Lights7.1Movie

Flickering Lights

Tante Beate · 2000

The Kingdom II7.7Movie

The Kingdom II

Emma Mortensen · 1998

Station 7-9-13: Gufol mysteriet9.0Show

Station 7-9-13: Gufol mysteriet

Fru Andersen · 1997

Taxa7.4Show

Taxa

Fruen · 1997

The Kingdom7.8Movie

The Kingdom

Emma Mogensen · 1994

The Kingdom7.6Show

The Kingdom

Emma Mogensen · 1994

Topsy Turvy4.1Movie

Topsy Turvy

1983

Matador9.1Show

Matador

Elisabeth Friis · 1978

Watch Your Back, Professor!5.0Movie

Watch Your Back, Professor!

Fru Andersen · 1977

Kassen stemmer5.4Movie

Kassen stemmer

1976

Bertram og Lisa7.7Movie

Bertram og Lisa

1975

Nineteen Red Roses7.7Movie

Nineteen Red Roses

Marianne Durant · 1974

The Olsen Gang Runs Amok6.8Movie

The Olsen Gang Runs Amok

Hallandsens sekretær · 1973

The Olsen Gang's Big Score6.8Movie

The Olsen Gang's Big Score

Fru des Staranwalts · 1972

The Olsen Gang in Jutland7.0Movie

The Olsen Gang in Jutland

Karen · 1971

Tjærehandleren5.2Movie

Tjærehandleren

Elna, Verners kone · 1971

Our Home Is Our Castle6.8Movie

Our Home Is Our Castle

Ellen Olsen · 1971

Revolution My A..6.4Movie

Revolution My A..

Frk. Nyborg · 1970

The House at Christianshavn8.0Show

The House at Christianshavn

Fru. Olsen · 1970

The Only Way6.3Movie

The Only Way

Ruth Stein · 1970

Det var en lørdag aften7.0Movie

Det var en lørdag aften

1968

Old Maids9.5Movie

Old Maids

Bettina Eriksen · 1966

Mor bag rattet5.8Movie

Mor bag rattet

Lykke Jeppsen · 1965

Landmandsliv6.0Movie

Landmandsliv

Frida von Rambow - grevinde · 1965

Passer Babysitting Girls5.9Movie

Passer Babysitting Girls

Fru Henriksen · 1965

Death Comes at High Noon7.6Movie

Death Comes at High Noon

Eva Lindberg · 1964

Dust for all the Money6.5Movie

Dust for all the Money

Bodil Henriksen · 1963

Peters landlov5.5Movie

Peters landlov

Minna Berg · 1963