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