Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthdate
1925-09-15
Day of Death
2009-06-10
Place of Birth
Gammel Rye, Aarhus, Denmark
Helle Virkner
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.
Filmography (56)
Skide godt, Balling!
2005Trækfugle
2001
Flickering Lights
2000
The Kingdom II
1998
The Kingdom
1994
Topsy Turvy
1983
Watch Your Back, Professor!
1977
Kassen stemmer
1976
Bertram og Lisa
1975
Nineteen Red Roses
1974
The Olsen Gang Runs Amok
1973
The Olsen Gang's Big Score
1972
The Olsen Gang in Jutland
1971
Tjærehandleren
1971
