Helle Virkner
Acting
- Born:
- 1925-09-15
- Died:
- 2009-06-10
- Place of birth:
- Gammel Rye, Aarhus, Denmark
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.
Known For
Filmography
Skide godt, Balling!
Trækfugle
Flickering Lights
The Kingdom II
Station "Knock on Wood": The Gufol Mystery
Taxa
The Kingdom
The Kingdom
Topsy Turvy
Matador
Watch Your Back, Professor!
Kassen stemmer
Bertram og Lisa
Nineteen Red Roses
The Olsen Gang Runs Amok
The Olsen Gang's Big Score
The Olsen Gang in Jutland
Tjærehandleren
Our Home Is Our Castle
Revolution My A..
The House at Christianshavn
The Only Way
Det var en lørdag aften
Old Maids
Mor bag rattet
Landmandsliv
Passer Babysitting Girls
Death Comes at High Noon
Dust for all the Money
Peters landlov
Still Dust on the Brain
Den kære familie
Dust on the Brain
Cirkus Buster
Poeten og Lillemor i forårshumør
The Poet and Lillemor and Lotte
Onkel Bill fra New York
The Poet and the Little Mother
3 må man være
Mor skal giftes
Over alle grænser
Cupid on the Phone
Englen i sort
Tante Tut fra Paris
Kispus
På tro og love
The bride from Dragstrup
Himlen er blaa
Hendes store aften
Sunstroke
For freedom and justice
Hvor er Far
Penge som græs
My Name Is Petersen
Take What You Want
We Meet at Tove's
Eight Chords
Frihed, lighed og Louise
Spurve under taget
En pige uden lige