Acting
Helle Virkner
DA, EN cinema · 56 credits
Born
15 September 1925
Died
10 June 2009 (aged 83)
Birthplace
Gammel Rye, Aarhus, Denmark
Also known as Helle Genie Virkner · Хелле Виркнер · Helle Genie Lotinga
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
Filmography
Flickering Lights
as Tante Beate
The Kingdom II
as Emma Mortensen
The Kingdom
as Emma Mogensen
Watch Your Back, Professor!
as Fru Andersen
Nineteen Red Roses
as Marianne Durant
The Olsen Gang Runs Amok
as Hallandsens sekretær
The Olsen Gang's Big Score
as Fru des Staranwalts
Our Home Is Our Castle
as Ellen Olsen
Tjærehandleren
as Elna, Verners kone
The Only Way
as Ruth Stein
Revolution My A..
as Frk. Nyborg
Old Maids
as Bettina Eriksen
Passer Babysitting Girls
as Fru Henriksen
Landmandsliv
as Frida von Rambow - grevinde
Mor bag rattet
as Lykke Jeppsen
Death Comes at High Noon
as Eva Lindberg
Dust for all the Money
as Bodil Henriksen
Peters landlov
as Minna Berg
Still Dust on the Brain
as Fru Henriksen
Den kære familie
as Emilie
Dust on the Brain
as Fru Bodil Henriksen
Poeten og Lillemor i forårshumør
as Lillemor
The Poet and Lillemor and Lotte
as Lillemor
Onkel Bill fra New York
as Susanne Høj
3 må man være
as Elisabeth Halling
The Poet and the Little Mother
as Lillemor
Cupid on the Phone
as Bitten, Josefs forlovede
Kispus
as Eva Møller
Tante Tut fra Paris
as Tove / Lille Tut
The bride from Dragstrup
as Helene Dragstrup
På tro og love
as Vera Gimmer
Hendes store aften
as Marianne Friis
Himlen er blaa
as Fru Lauritzen
Sunstroke
as Mona Miller - Mannequin
Penge som græs
as Anne-Marie
Take What You Want
as Britta Wulff
Spurve under taget
as En halvvoksen Pige
