Helle Virkner
Known For
Acting
Born
1925-09-15 in Gammel Rye, Aarhus, Denmark
Died
2009-06-10
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.
Most Known For
The Kingdom
as Emma Mogensen
Taxa
as Fruen
The House at Christianshavn
as Fru. Olsen
Matador
as Elisabeth Friis
Peters landlov
as Minna Berg
Kassen stemmer
The Kingdom
as Emma Mogensen
Englen i sort
Flickering Lights
as Tante Beate
Station 7-9-13: Gufol mysteriet
as Fru Andersen
Topsy Turvy
Cirkus Buster
Sunstroke
as Mona Miller - Mannequin
Dust on the Brain
as Fru Bodil Henriksen
The Olsen Gang in Jutland
as Karen
Tjærehandleren
as Elna, Verners kone
The Olsen Gang's Big Score
as Fru des Staranwalts
Still Dust on the Brain
as Fru Henriksen
The Kingdom II
as Emma Mortensen
The Olsen Gang Runs Amok
as Hallandsens sekretær