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.
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The Kingdom
Emma Mogensen
The House at Christianshavn
Fru. Olsen
Taxa
Fruen
Matador
Elisabeth Friis
Peters landlov
Minna Berg
Kassen stemmer
Flickering Lights
Tante Beate
Englen i sort
The Kingdom
Emma Mogensen
Dust on the Brain
Fru Bodil Henriksen
Cirkus Buster
Station 7-9-13: Gufol mysteriet
Fru Andersen
Sunstroke
Mona Miller - Mannequin
The Kingdom II
Emma Mortensen
Watch Your Back, Professor!
Fru Andersen
The Only Way
Ruth Stein
Nineteen Red Roses
Marianne Durant
Topsy Turvy
The Olsen Gang's Big Score
Fru des Staranwalts
The Olsen Gang Runs Amok
Hallandsens sekretær
Tjærehandleren
Elna, Verners kone
My Name Is Petersen
Poeten og Lillemor i forårshumør
Lillemor
Our Home Is Our Castle
Ellen Olsen
Landmandsliv
Frida von Rambow - grevinde
The Olsen Gang in Jutland
Karen
Mor skal giftes
Eva
Hendes store aften
Marianne Friis
Cupid on the Phone
Bitten, Josefs forlovede
Revolution My A..
Frk. Nyborg
Still Dust on the Brain
Fru Henriksen
Dust for all the Money
Bodil Henriksen
Mor bag rattet
Lykke Jeppsen
Den kære familie
Emilie
The Poet and the Little Mother
Lillemor
Hvor er Far
Det var en lørdag aften
På tro og love
Vera Gimmer
Kispus
Eva Møller
Passer Babysitting Girls
Fru Henriksen
The bride from Dragstrup
Helene Dragstrup
Take What You Want
Britta Wulff
Penge som græs
Anne-Marie
Himlen er blaa
Fru Lauritzen
The Poet and Lillemor and Lotte
Lillemor
Tante Tut fra Paris
Tove / Lille Tut
Old Maids
Bettina Eriksen
Trækfugle
Elsa
3 må man være
Elisabeth Halling
Søren Søndervold
Bertram og Lisa
Skide godt, Balling!
Onkel Bill fra New York
Susanne Høj
Eight Chords
We Meet at Tove's
Death Comes at High Noon
Eva Lindberg
For freedom and justice
Maria
En pige uden lige
Over alle grænser
Vera
Spurve under taget
En halvvoksen Pige