Helle Virkner

Known for ActingBorn 1925-09-15Died 2009-06-10Gammel 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.Read more

Movies & web series

Station "Knock on Wood": The Gufol Mystery

Old Maids

Matador

Penge som græs

The Kingdom

The Kingdom

The House at Christianshavn

The Kingdom II

Take What You Want

Bertram og Lisa

Nineteen Red Roses

Søren Søndervold

Taxa

3 må man være

Death Comes at High Noon

Flickering Lights

Frihed, lighed og Louise

Eight Chords

Spurve under taget

En pige uden lige

Himlen er blaa

Den kære familie

The Olsen Gang in Jutland

Det var en lørdag aften

The Olsen Gang Runs Amok

The bride from Dragstrup

The Olsen Gang's Big Score

Our Home Is Our Castle

Hvor er Far

Englen i sort

På tro og love

Still Dust on the Brain

Poeten og Lillemor i forårshumør

The Poet and the Little Mother

My Name Is Petersen

We Meet at Tove's

Dust for all the Money

Dust on the Brain

Revolution My A..

Hendes store aften

Cirkus Buster

The Only Way

Mor skal giftes

Over alle grænser

Kispus

For freedom and justice

Landmandsliv

Tante Tut fra Paris