Cast & creator
Helle Virkner
Best known for The House at Christianshavn, The Kingdom, Taxa
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.
Also known as: Helle Genie Virkner, Хелле Виркнер, Helle Genie Lotinga
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television credits
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1942–2005 · acting roles
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Across film & television
Filmography (61)
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The House at Christianshavn
Fru. Olsen
1970
The Kingdom
Emma Mogensen
1994
Taxa
Fruen
1997
Matador
Elisabeth Friis
1978
Station "Knock on Wood": The Gufol Mystery
Fru Andersen
1997
Flickering Lights
Tante Beate
2000
Topsy Turvy
1983
The Kingdom
Emma Mogensen
1994
Kassen stemmer
1976
Watch Your Back, Professor!
Fru Andersen
1977
3 må man være
Elisabeth Halling
1959
The Olsen Gang's Big Score
Fru des Staranwalts
1972
The Olsen Gang Runs Amok
Hallandsens sekretær
1973
The Kingdom II
Emma Mortensen
1998
Old Maids
Bettina Eriksen
1966
The Olsen Gang in Jutland
Karen
1971
We Meet at Tove's
1946
Peters landlov
Minna Berg
1963
Tjærehandleren
Elna, Verners kone
1971
Revolution My A..
Frk. Nyborg
1970
Death Comes at High Noon
Eva Lindberg
1964
For freedom and justice
Maria
1949
The Only Way
Ruth Stein
1970
Cirkus Buster
1961
Frihed, lighed og Louise
1944
Tante Tut fra Paris
Tove / Lille Tut
1956
The Poet and Lillemor and Lotte
Lillemor
1960
Sunstroke
Mona Miller - Mannequin
1953
Dust on the Brain
Fru Bodil Henriksen
1961
På tro og love
Vera Gimmer
1955
Nineteen Red Roses
Marianne Durant
1974
Dust for all the Money
Bodil Henriksen
1963
Landmandsliv
Frida von Rambow - grevinde
1965
Take What You Want
Britta Wulff
1947
Onkel Bill fra New York
Susanne Høj
1959
Det var en lørdag aften
1968
Poeten og Lillemor i forårshumør
Lillemor
1961
Den kære familie
Emilie
1962
Cupid on the Phone
Bitten, Josefs forlovede
1957
Our Home Is Our Castle
Ellen Olsen
1971
The Poet and the Little Mother
Lillemor
1959
En pige uden lige
1943
Hvor er Far
1948
My Name Is Petersen
1947
Mor skal giftes
Eva
1958
Over alle grænser
Vera
1958
Eight Chords
1944
Mor bag rattet
Lykke Jeppsen
1965
Hendes store aften
Marianne Friis
1954
Passer Babysitting Girls
Fru Henriksen
1965
Still Dust on the Brain
Fru Henriksen
1962
Kispus
Eva Møller
1956
Penge som græs
Anne-Marie
1948
Bertram og Lisa
1975
The bride from Dragstrup
Helene Dragstrup
1955
Søren Søndervold
1942
Englen i sort
1957Trækfugle
Elsa
2001
Himlen er blaa
Fru Lauritzen
1954
Skide godt, Balling!
2005
Spurve under taget
En halvvoksen Pige
1944