
Helle Virkner
- Date of Birth: 1925-09-15
- Date of Death: 2009-06-10
- 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 t... 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.

Dust on the Brain
Family, Comedy • 1961 October

The Poet and the Little Mother
Family, Comedy • 1959 March

Hendes store aften
Comedy • 1954 March

Still Dust on the Brain
Comedy • 1962 September

Revolution My A..
Comedy • 1970 October

Englen i sort
Drama • 1957 November

For freedom and justice
History, Drama • 1949 October

Dust for all the Money
Family, Comedy • 1963 December

På tro og love
Family • 1955 August

Cirkus Buster
Family • 1961 October