Helle Virkner
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.
Acted in
Skide godt, Balling!
2005
Trækfugle
2001
as Elsa
Flickering Lights
2000
as Tante Beate
Station 7-9-13: Gufol mysteriet
1997
as Fru Andersen
The Kingdom II
1997
as Emma Mortensen
Taxa
1997
as Fruen
The Kingdom
1994
as Emma Mogensen
The Kingdom
1994
as Emma Mogensen
Topsy Turvy
1983
Matador
1978
as Elisabeth Friis
Watch Your Back, Professor!
1977
as Fru Andersen
Kassen stemmer
1976
Bertram og Lisa
1975
Nineteen Red Roses
1974
as Marianne Durant
The Olsen Gang Runs Amok
1973
as Hallandsen's Secretary
The Olsen Gang's Big Score
1972
as Frau des Staranwalts
The Olsen Gang in Jutland
1971
as Karen
Tjærehandleren
1971
as Elna, Verners kone
Our Home Is Our Castle
1971
as Ellen Olsen
Revolution My A..
1970
as Frk. Nyborg
The House at Christianshavn
1970
as Fru. Olsen
The Only Way
1970
as Ruth Stein
Det var en lørdag aften
1968
Old Maids
1966
as Bettina Eriksen
Mor bag rattet
1965
as Lykke Jeppsen
Landmandsliv
1965
as Frida von Rambow - grevinde
Passer Babysitting Girls
1965
as Fru Henriksen
Death Comes at High Noon
1964
as Eva Lindberg
Dust for all the Money
1963
as Bodil Henriksen
Peters landlov
1963
as Minna Berg
Still Dust on the Brain
1962
as Fru Henriksen
Den kære familie
1962
as Emilie
Dust on the Brain
1961
as Fru Bodil Henriksen
Cirkus Buster
1961
Poeten og Lillemor i forårshumør
1961
as Lillemor
The Poet and Lillemor and Lotte
1960
as Lillemor
Onkel Bill fra New York
1959
as Susanne Høj
The Poet and the Little Mother
1959
as Lillemor
3 må man være
1959
as Elisabeth Halling
Mor skal giftes
1958
as Eva
Over alle grænser
1958
as Vera
Cupid on the Phone
1957
as Bitten, Josefs forlovede
Englen i sort
1957
Tante Tut fra Paris
1956
as Tove / Lille Tut
Kispus
1956
as Eva Møller
På tro og love
1955
as Vera Gimmer
The bride from Dragstrup
1955
as Helene Dragstrup
Himlen er blaa
1954
as Fru Lauritzen
Hendes store aften
1954
as Marianne Friis
Sunstroke
1953
as Mona Miller - Mannequin
For frihed og ret
1949
as Maria
Hvor er Far
1948
Penge som græs
1948
as Anne-Marie
My Name Is Petersen
1947
Take What You Want
1947
as Britta Wulff
We Meet at Tove's
1946
Otte akkorder
1944
Frihed, lighed og Louise
1944
Spurve under taget
1944
as En halvvoksen Pige
En pige uden lige
1943
Søren Søndervold
1942