Helle Virkner

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: Acting

Born: Gammel Rye, Aarhus, Denmark, 1925-09-15

Died: 2009-06-10

Film

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1942	Søren Søndervold		70
2	1943	En pige uden lige		70
3	1944	Spurve under taget	En halvvoksen Pige	80
4	1944	Frihed, lighed og Louise		65
5	1944	Otte akkorder		75
6	1946	We Meet at Tove's		65
7	1947	Take What You Want	Britta Wulff	75
8	1947	My Name Is Petersen		50
9	1948	Penge som græs	Anne-Marie	90
10	1948	Hvor er Far		65
11	1949	For frihed og ret	Maria	62
12	1953	Sunstroke	Mona Miller - Mannequin	50
13	1954	Hendes store aften	Marianne Friis	63
14	1954	Himlen er blaa	Fru Lauritzen	60
15	1955	The bride from Dragstrup	Helene Dragstrup	67
16	1955	På tro og love	Vera Gimmer	60
17	1956	Kispus	Eva Møller	55
18	1956	Tante Tut fra Paris	Tove / Lille Tut	57
19	1957	Englen i sort		62
20	1957	Cupid on the Phone	Bitten, Josefs forlovede	47
21	1958	Over alle grænser	Vera	50
22	1958	Mor skal giftes	Eva	50
23	1959	3 må man være	Elisabeth Halling	65
24	1959	The Poet and the Little Mother	Lillemor	64
25	1959	Onkel Bill fra New York	Susanne Høj	51
26	1960	The Poet and Lillemor and Lotte	Lillemor	54
27	1961	Poeten og Lillemor i forårshumør	Lillemor	65
28	1961	Cirkus Buster		60
29	1961	Dust on the Brain	Fru Bodil Henriksen	64
30	1962	Den kære familie	Emilie	72
31	1962	Still Dust on the Brain	Fru Henriksen	63
32	1963	Peters landlov	Minna Berg	52
33	1963	Dust for all the Money	Bodil Henriksen	62
34	1964	Death Comes at High Noon	Eva Lindberg	72
35	1965	Passer Babysitting Girls	Fru Henriksen	56
36	1965	Landmandsliv	Frida von Rambow - grevinde	50
37	1965	Mor bag rattet	Lykke Jeppsen	53
38	1966	Old Maids	Bettina Eriksen	100
39	1968	Det var en lørdag aften		65
40	1970	The Only Way	Ruth Stein	59
41	1970	Revolution My A..	Frk. Nyborg	63
42	1971	Our Home Is Our Castle	Ellen Olsen	66
43	1971	Tjærehandleren	Elna, Verners kone	60
44	1971	The Olsen Gang in Jutland	Karen	70
45	1972	The Olsen Gang's Big Score	Frau des Staranwalts	68
46	1973	The Olsen Gang Runs Amok	Hallandsen's Secretary	69
47	1974	Nineteen Red Roses	Marianne Durant	72
48	1975	Bertram og Lisa		65
49	1976	Kassen stemmer		56
50	1977	Watch Your Back, Professor!	Fru Andersen	43
51	1983	Topsy Turvy		36
52	1994	The Kingdom	Emma Mogensen	78
53	1997	The Kingdom II	Emma Mortensen	77
54	2000	Flickering Lights	Tante Beate	72
55	2001	Trækfugle	Elsa	20
56	2005	Skide godt, Balling!		0

Television

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1970	The House at Christianshavn	Fru. Olsen	80
2	1978	Matador	Elisabeth Friis	91
3	1994	The Kingdom	Emma Mogensen	75
4	1997	Taxa	Fruen	70
5	1997	Station 7-9-13: Gufol mysteriet	Fru Andersen	100