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.
Acting
Movie
The Kingdom
as Emma Mogensen
1994
Movie
Flickering Lights
as Tante Beate
2000
Movie
For freedom and justice
as Maria
1949
TV
The Kingdom
as Emma Mogensen
1994
Movie
The Olsen Gang's Big Score
as Fru des Staranwalts
1972
Movie
The Kingdom II
as Emma Mortensen
1998
Movie
The Olsen Gang Runs Amok
as Hallandsens sekretær
1973
Movie
The Olsen Gang in Jutland
as Karen
1971
TV
Matador
as Elisabeth Friis
1978
Movie
Dust on the Brain
as Fru Bodil Henriksen
1961
TV
The House at Christianshavn
as Fru. Olsen
1970
Movie
Passer Babysitting Girls
as Fru Henriksen
1965
Movie
Dust for all the Money
as Bodil Henriksen
1963
Movie
Still Dust on the Brain
as Fru Henriksen
1962
Movie
The Only Way
as Ruth Stein
1970
Movie
The Poet and the Little Mother
as Lillemor
1959
Movie
Our Home Is Our Castle
as Ellen Olsen
1971
Movie
Topsy Turvy
1983
Movie
Den kære familie
as Emilie
1962
Movie
Kassen stemmer
1976
Movie
Poeten og Lillemor i forårshumør
as Lillemor
1961
Movie
På tro og love
as Vera Gimmer
1955
Movie
Sunstroke
as Mona Miller - Mannequin
1953
Movie
The Poet and Lillemor and Lotte
as Lillemor
1960