Helle Virkner
Acting · Born 1925-09-15 · age 83 at death · Gammel 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.
Titles
The Kingdom
Flickering Lights
For freedom and justice
The Kingdom
The Kingdom II
The Olsen Gang's Big Score
The Olsen Gang Runs Amok
The Olsen Gang in Jutland
Matador
Dust on the Brain
The House at Christianshavn
Passer Babysitting Girls
Dust for all the Money
Still Dust on the Brain
The Only Way
The Poet and the Little Mother
Our Home Is Our Castle
Topsy Turvy
Den kære familie
Kassen stemmer
Poeten og Lillemor i forårshumør
På tro og love
Sunstroke
The Poet and Lillemor and Lotte
Onkel Bill fra New York
Revolution My A..
Peters landlov
Nineteen Red Roses
En pige uden lige
Landmandsliv
Kispus
Death Comes at High Noon
Tjærehandleren
Taxa
The bride from Dragstrup
Mor bag rattet
Mor skal giftes
Hendes store aften
Englen i sort
Cupid on the Phone
Over alle grænser
Tante Tut fra Paris
Watch Your Back, Professor!
Take What You Want
3 må man være
Frihed, lighed og Louise
Himlen er blaa
Cirkus Buster
Eight Chords
My Name Is Petersen
Søren Søndervold
We Meet at Tove's
Det var en lørdag aften
Penge som græs
Spurve under taget
Hvor er Far
Bertram og Lisa
Old Maids
Trækfugle
Station 7-9-13: Gufol mysteriet