
Helle Virkner
Born: 1925-09-15
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

Onkel Bill fra New York

Flickering Lights

Den kære familie

Kassen stemmer

Over alle grænser

Eight Chords

Landmandsliv

Søren Søndervold

Old Maids

Dust on the Brain

Cupid on the Phone

Peters landlov

The Only Way

Englen i sort

Tante Tut fra Paris

Topsy Turvy

Tjærehandleren

For freedom and justice

The Poet and the Little Mother

The Kingdom

The Olsen Gang Runs Amok

Mor skal giftes

Our Home Is Our Castle

Sunstroke

Bertram og Lisa

Cirkus Buster

The Poet and Lillemor and Lotte

Passer Babysitting Girls

The Kingdom II

Hendes store aften

Mor bag rattet

Spurve under taget

The Olsen Gang in Jutland

Still Dust on the Brain

The Olsen Gang's Big Score

The bride from Dragstrup

Himlen er blaa

Det var en lørdag aften

Nineteen Red Roses

We Meet at Tove's

Revolution My A..

Death Comes at High Noon

3 må man være

Dust for all the Money

Watch Your Back, Professor!

Penge som græs

Kispus

Poeten og Lillemor i forårshumør

På tro og love

En pige uden lige

Take What You Want

My Name Is Petersen

Hvor er Far
