Helle Virkner
Birthday: 1925-09-15 | Place of Birth: Gammel Rye, Aarhus, DenmarkHelle 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
Acting
Role
as Elisabeth Friis
as Fru Andersen
as Marianne Durant
as Hallandsen's Secretary
as Frau des Staranwalts
as Ellen Olsen
as Karen
as Fru. Olsen
as Ruth Stein
as Bettina Eriksen
as Frida von Rambow - grevinde
as Eva Lindberg
as Bodil Henriksen
as Fru Henriksen
as Fru Bodil Henriksen
as Lillemor
as Lillemor
as Eva Møller
as Anne-Marie
