Skip to main content

Helle Virkner

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

The Olsen Gang in Jutland
The Olsen Gang in Jutland
Old Maids
Old Maids
Passer Babysitting Girls
Passer Babysitting Girls
Dust on the Brain
Dust on the Brain
Dust for all the Money
Dust for all the Money
Poeten og Lillemor i forårshumør
Poeten og Lillemor i forårshumør
Landmandsliv
Landmandsliv
Our Home Is Our Castle
Our Home Is Our Castle
The bride from Dragstrup
The bride from Dragstrup

Filmography

2005 Skide godt, Balling!
as
2001 Trækfugle
as Elsa
2000 Flickering Lights
as Tante Beate
1997 Station 7-9-13: Gufol mysteriet
as Fru Andersen
1997 The Kingdom II
as Emma Mortensen
1997 Taxa
as Fruen
1994 The Kingdom
as Emma Mogensen
1994 The Kingdom
as Emma Mogensen
1983 Topsy Turvy
as
1978 Matador
as Elisabeth Friis
1977 Watch Your Back, Professor!
as Fru Andersen
1976 Kassen stemmer
as
1975 Bertram og Lisa
as
1974 Nineteen Red Roses
as Marianne Durant
1973 The Olsen Gang Runs Amok
as Hallandsen's Secretary
1972 The Olsen Gang's Big Score
as Frau des Staranwalts
1971 The Olsen Gang in Jutland
as Karen
1971 Tjærehandleren
as Elna, Verners kone
1971 Our Home Is Our Castle
as Ellen Olsen
1970 Revolution My A..
as Frk. Nyborg