Name
Helle Virkner
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1925-09-15
Deathday
2009-06-10 (84 years old)
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
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Four small gangsters from Copenhagen trick a gangster boss: they take over 4,000,000 krone...
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The Olsen gang in Jutland. Ones again Egon Olsen has a plan when he gets out of Vridslose ...
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A picture of the life of the Danish people from the late 1820s to the introduction of the ...
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When Egon Olsen gets out of Vridlose State Prision once again, his friends Benny and Kjeld...
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The story centers around the busybody housewives of a modern Danish working class neighbor...
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After his usual stay behind bars, Egon has another cunning plan involving millions. They r...
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In April 1940, the armies of Nazi Germany invaded Denmark. The Danish government promised ...
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Caretaker Alf Thomsen's very effective "alarm clock" comes once again in operation, and ha...
- 2000 Flickering Lights as Tante Beate
- 1971 The Olsen Gang in Jutland as Karen
- 1966 Old Maids as Bettina Eriksen
- 1965 Passer Babysitting Girls as Fru Henriksen
- 1963 Dust for all the Money as Bodil Henriksen
- 1961 Dust on the Brain as Fru Bodil Henriksen
- 1961 Poeten og Lillemor i forårshumør as Lillemor
- 1965 Landmandsliv as Frida von Rambow - grevinde
- 1971 Our Home Is Our Castle as Ellen Olsen
- 1955 The bride from Dragstrup as Helene Dragstrup
- 1965 Mor bag rattet as Lykke Jeppsen
- 1955 På tro og love as Vera Gimmer
- 1958 Mor skal giftes as Eva
- 1962 Still Dust on the Brain as Fru Henriksen
- 1953 Sunstroke as Mona Miller - Mannequin
- 1960 The Poet and Lillemor and Lotte as Lillemor
- 1962 Den kære familie as Emilie
- 1970 The Only Way as Ruth Stein
- 1994 The Kingdom as Emma Mogensen
- 1998 The Kingdom II as Emma Mortensen
- 1959 Onkel Bill fra New York as Susanne Høj
- 1970 Revolution My A.. as Frk. Nyborg
- 1956 Kispus as Eva Møller
- 1954 Hendes store aften as Marianne Friis
- 1947 Take What You Want as Britta Wulff
- 1964 Death Comes at High Noon as Eva Lindberg
- 1959 3 må man være as Elisabeth Halling
- 1957 Englen i sort
- 1944 Frihed, lighed og Louise
- 1954 Himlen er blaa as Fru Lauritzen
- 1957 Cupid on the Phone as Bitten, Josefs forlovede
- 1961 Cirkus Buster
- 1983 Topsy Turvy
- 1976 Kassen stemmer
- 1972 The Olsen Gang's Big Score as Fru des Staranwalts
- 1973 The Olsen Gang Runs Amok as Hallandsens sekretær
- 1944 Eight Chords
- 1958 Over alle grænser as Vera
- 1963 Peters landlov as Minna Berg
- 1959 The Poet and the Little Mother as Lillemor
- 1947 My Name Is Petersen
- 1974 Nineteen Red Roses as Marianne Durant
- 1942 Søren Søndervold
- 1946 We Meet at Tove's
- 1956 Tante Tut fra Paris as Tove / Lille Tut
- 1968 Det var en lørdag aften
- 1943 En pige uden lige
- 1949 For freedom and justice as Maria
- 1977 Watch Your Back, Professor! as Fru Andersen
- 1948 Penge som græs as Anne-Marie
- 1944 Spurve under taget as En halvvoksen Pige
- 1971 Tjærehandleren as Elna, Verners kone
- 1948 Hvor er Far
- 1975 Bertram og Lisa
- 2001 Trækfugle as Elsa
- 2005 Skide godt, Balling!
- 1970 The House at Christianshavn ( 84 episodes ) as Fru. Olsen
- 1994 The Kingdom ( 3 episodes ) as Emma Mogensen
- 1997 Station "Knock on Wood": The Gufol Mystery ( 24 episodes ) as Fru Andersen
- 1978 Matador ( 24 episodes ) as Elisabeth Friis
- 1997 Taxa ( 1 episode ) as Fruen
