Helle Virkner
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- Sep 15, 1925
- Died
- Jun 10, 2009 (aged 83)
- Place of birth
- Gammel Rye, Aarhus, Denmark
- Credits
- 61
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
Flickering Lights
2000Movie
Tante Beate
The Kingdom
1994Movie
Emma Mogensen
For freedom and justice
1949Movie
Maria
The Kingdom
1994TV
Emma Mogensen
The Kingdom II
1998Movie
Emma Mortensen
The Olsen Gang's Big Score
1972Movie
Fru des Staranwalts
Filmography
Skide godt, Balling!
2005Movie
Trækfugle
2001Movie
Elsa
Flickering Lights
2000Movie
Tante Beate
The Kingdom II
1998Movie
Emma Mortensen
Station "Knock on Wood": The Gufol Mystery
1997TV
Fru Andersen
Taxa
1997TV
Fruen
The Kingdom
1994Movie
Emma Mogensen
The Kingdom
1994TV
Emma Mogensen
Topsy Turvy
1983Movie
Matador
1978TV
Elisabeth Friis
Watch Your Back, Professor!
1977Movie
Fru Andersen
Kassen stemmer
1976Movie
Bertram og Lisa
1975Movie
Nineteen Red Roses
1974Movie
Marianne Durant
The Olsen Gang Runs Amok
1973Movie
Hallandsens sekretær
The Olsen Gang's Big Score
1972Movie
Fru des Staranwalts
The Olsen Gang in Jutland
1971Movie
Karen
Tjærehandleren
1971Movie
Elna, Verners kone
Our Home Is Our Castle
1971Movie
Ellen Olsen
Revolution My A..
1970Movie
Frk. Nyborg
The House at Christianshavn
1970TV
Fru. Olsen
The Only Way
1970Movie
Ruth Stein
Det var en lørdag aften
1968Movie
Old Maids
1966Movie
Bettina Eriksen
Mor bag rattet
1965Movie
Lykke Jeppsen
Landmandsliv
1965Movie
Frida von Rambow - grevinde
Passer Babysitting Girls
1965Movie
Fru Henriksen
Death Comes at High Noon
1964Movie
Eva Lindberg
Dust for all the Money
1963Movie
Bodil Henriksen
Peters landlov
1963Movie
Minna Berg
Still Dust on the Brain
1962Movie
Fru Henriksen
Den kære familie
1962Movie
Emilie
Dust on the Brain
1961Movie
Fru Bodil Henriksen
Cirkus Buster
1961Movie
Poeten og Lillemor i forårshumør
1961Movie
Lillemor
The Poet and Lillemor and Lotte
1960Movie
Lillemor
Onkel Bill fra New York
1959Movie
Susanne Høj
The Poet and the Little Mother
1959Movie
Lillemor
3 må man være
1959Movie
Elisabeth Halling
Mor skal giftes
1958Movie
Eva
Over alle grænser
1958Movie
Vera
Cupid on the Phone
1957Movie
Bitten, Josefs forlovede
Englen i sort
1957Movie
Tante Tut fra Paris
1956Movie
Tove / Lille Tut
Kispus
1956Movie
Eva Møller
På tro og love
1955Movie
Vera Gimmer
The bride from Dragstrup
1955Movie
Helene Dragstrup
Himlen er blaa
1954Movie
Fru Lauritzen
Hendes store aften
1954Movie
Marianne Friis
Sunstroke
1953Movie
Mona Miller - Mannequin
For freedom and justice
1949Movie
Maria
Hvor er Far
1948Movie
Penge som græs
1948Movie
Anne-Marie
My Name Is Petersen
1947Movie
Take What You Want
1947Movie
Britta Wulff
We Meet at Tove's
1946Movie
Eight Chords
1944Movie
Frihed, lighed og Louise
1944Movie
Spurve under taget
1944Movie
En halvvoksen Pige
En pige uden lige
1943Movie
Søren Søndervold
1942Movie