
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1925-09-15
Deathday
2009-06-10
Place of Birth
Gammel Rye, Aarhus, Denmark
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 Kingdom
as Emma Mogensen

Flickering Lights
as Tante Beate

For frihed og ret
as Maria

The Olsen Gang's Big Score
as Frau des Staranwalts

The Olsen Gang Runs Amok
as Hallandsen's Secretary

The Olsen Gang in Jutland
as Karen

The Kingdom II
as Emma Mortensen

The Kingdom
as Emma Mogensen

Matador
as Elisabeth Friis

Dust on the Brain
as Fru Bodil Henriksen