Helle Virkner
Acting
Born September 15, 1925, Gammel 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
- 2005Skide godt, Balling!
- 2001Trækfugle — Elsa
- 2000Flickering Lights — Tante Beate
- 1998The Kingdom II — Emma Mortensen
- Station "Knock on Wood": The Gufol Mystery — Fru Andersen
- Taxa — Fruen
- 1994The Kingdom — Emma Mogensen
- The Kingdom — Emma Mogensen
- 1983Topsy Turvy
- Matador — Elisabeth Friis
- 1977Watch Your Back, Professor! — Fru Andersen
- 1976Kassen stemmer
- 1975Bertram og Lisa
- 1974Nineteen Red Roses — Marianne Durant
- 1973The Olsen Gang Runs Amok — Hallandsens sekretær
- 1972The Olsen Gang's Big Score — Fru des Staranwalts
- 1971Our Home Is Our Castle — Ellen Olsen
- 1971The Olsen Gang in Jutland — Karen
- 1971Tjærehandleren — Elna, Verners kone
- 1970Revolution My A.. — Frk. Nyborg
- The House at Christianshavn — Fru. Olsen
- 1970The Only Way — Ruth Stein
- 1968Det var en lørdag aften
- 1966Old Maids — Bettina Eriksen
- 1965Landmandsliv — Frida von Rambow - grevinde
- 1965Mor bag rattet — Lykke Jeppsen
- 1965Passer Babysitting Girls — Fru Henriksen
- 1964Death Comes at High Noon — Eva Lindberg
- 1963Dust for all the Money — Bodil Henriksen
- 1963Peters landlov — Minna Berg
- 1962Den kære familie — Emilie
- 1962Still Dust on the Brain — Fru Henriksen
- 1961Cirkus Buster
- 1961Dust on the Brain — Fru Bodil Henriksen
- 1961Poeten og Lillemor i forårshumør — Lillemor
- 1960The Poet and Lillemor and Lotte — Lillemor
- 19593 må man være — Elisabeth Halling
- 1959Onkel Bill fra New York — Susanne Høj
- 1959The Poet and the Little Mother — Lillemor
- 1958Mor skal giftes — Eva
- 1958Over alle grænser — Vera
- 1957Cupid on the Phone — Bitten, Josefs forlovede
- 1957Englen i sort
- 1956Kispus — Eva Møller
- 1956Tante Tut fra Paris — Tove / Lille Tut
- 1955På tro og love — Vera Gimmer
- 1955The bride from Dragstrup — Helene Dragstrup
- 1954Hendes store aften — Marianne Friis
- 1954Himlen er blaa — Fru Lauritzen
- 1953Sunstroke — Mona Miller - Mannequin
- 1949For freedom and justice — Maria
- 1948Hvor er Far
- 1948Penge som græs — Anne-Marie
- 1947My Name Is Petersen
- 1947Take What You Want — Britta Wulff
- 1946We Meet at Tove's
- 1944Eight Chords
- 1944Frihed, lighed og Louise
- 1944Spurve under taget — En halvvoksen Pige
- 1943En pige uden lige
- 1942Søren Søndervold