Helle Virkner

Helle Virkner (83)

1925-09-15 - 2009-06-10 | Gammel Rye, Aarhus, Denmark

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.

On Movies

  • Flickering Lights
  • The Kingdom II
  • The Kingdom
  • Topsy Turvy
  • Watch Your Back, Professor!
  • Kassen stemmer
  • Bertram og Lisa
  • Nineteen Red Roses
  • The Olsen Gang Runs Amok
  • The Olsen Gang's Big Score
  • The Olsen Gang in Jutland
  • Tjærehandleren
  • Our Home Is Our Castle
  • Revolution My A..
  • The Only Way
  • Det var en lørdag aften
  • Old Maids
  • Mor bag rattet
  • Landmandsliv
  • Passer Babysitting Girls
  • Death Comes at High Noon
  • Dust for all the Money
  • Peters landlov
  • Still Dust on the Brain
  • Den kære familie
  • Dust on the Brain
  • Cirkus Buster
  • Poeten og Lillemor i forårshumør
  • The Poet and Lillemor and Lotte
  • Onkel Bill fra New York
  • The Poet and the Little Mother
  • 3 må man være
  • Mor skal giftes
  • Over alle grænser
  • Cupid on the Phone
  • Englen i sort
  • Tante Tut fra Paris
  • Kispus
  • På tro og love
  • The bride from Dragstrup
  • Himlen er blaa
  • Hendes store aften
  • Sunstroke
  • For freedom and justice
  • Hvor er Far
  • Penge som græs
  • My Name Is Petersen
  • Take What You Want
  • We Meet at Tove's
  • Eight Chords
  • Frihed, lighed og Louise
  • Spurve under taget
  • En pige uden lige
  • Søren Søndervold

On Series

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