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