Helle Virkner
Actor
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
Flickering Lights
as Tante Beate 2000
For freedom and justice
as Maria 1949
The Olsen Gang's Big Score
as Fru des Staranwalts 1972
The Olsen Gang Runs Amok
as Hallandsens sekretær 1973
The Olsen Gang in Jutland
as Karen 1971
The Kingdom II
as Emma Mortensen 1998
Dust on the Brain
as Fru Bodil Henriksen 1961
Passer Babysitting Girls
as Fru Henriksen 1965
Dust for all the Money
as Bodil Henriksen 1963
Still Dust on the Brain
as Fru Henriksen 1962
The Only Way
as Ruth Stein 1970
The Poet and the Little Mother
as Lillemor 1959
Our Home Is Our Castle
as Ellen Olsen 1971
Topsy Turvy
1983
Den kære familie
as Emilie 1962
Kassen stemmer
1976