Cine AI
Helle Virkner

Helle Virkner

Actor · Born 1925-09-15 · Gammel Rye, Aarhus, Denmark

Get the app Browse on web

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.

Movies & TV Shows

  1. The Kingdom (1994) — Emma Mogensen
  2. Flickering Lights (2000) — Tante Beate
  3. For freedom and justice (1949) — Maria
  4. The Kingdom (1994) — Emma Mogensen
  5. The Kingdom II (1998) — Emma Mortensen
  6. The Olsen Gang's Big Score (1972) — Fru des Staranwalts
  7. The Olsen Gang Runs Amok (1973) — Hallandsens sekretær
  8. The Olsen Gang in Jutland (1971) — Karen
  9. Matador (1978) — Elisabeth Friis
  10. Dust on the Brain (1961) — Fru Bodil Henriksen
  11. The House at Christianshavn (1970) — Fru. Olsen
  12. Passer Babysitting Girls (1965) — Fru Henriksen
  13. Dust for all the Money (1963) — Bodil Henriksen
  14. Still Dust on the Brain (1962) — Fru Henriksen
  15. The Only Way (1970) — Ruth Stein
  16. The Poet and the Little Mother (1959) — Lillemor
  17. Our Home Is Our Castle (1971) — Ellen Olsen
  18. Topsy Turvy (1983)
  19. Den kære familie (1962) — Emilie
  20. Kassen stemmer (1976)
  21. Poeten og Lillemor i forårshumør (1961) — Lillemor
  22. På tro og love (1955) — Vera Gimmer
  23. Sunstroke (1953) — Mona Miller - Mannequin
  24. The Poet and Lillemor and Lotte (1960) — Lillemor
  25. Onkel Bill fra New York (1959) — Susanne Høj
  26. Revolution My A.. (1970) — Frk. Nyborg
  27. Peters landlov (1963) — Minna Berg
  28. Nineteen Red Roses (1974) — Marianne Durant
  29. En pige uden lige (1943)
  30. Landmandsliv (1965) — Frida von Rambow - grevinde
  31. Kispus (1956) — Eva Møller
  32. Death Comes at High Noon (1964) — Eva Lindberg
  33. Tjærehandleren (1971) — Elna, Verners kone
  34. Taxa (1997) — Fruen
  35. The bride from Dragstrup (1955) — Helene Dragstrup
  36. Mor bag rattet (1965) — Lykke Jeppsen
  37. Mor skal giftes (1958) — Eva
  38. Hendes store aften (1954) — Marianne Friis
  39. Englen i sort (1957)
  40. Cupid on the Phone (1957) — Bitten, Josefs forlovede