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.
56 movies · 5 shows
Skide godt, Balling!
2005·0.0
Trækfugle
2001·5.5
Flickering Lights
2000·7.1
The Kingdom II
1998·7.6
The Kingdom
1994·7.8
Topsy Turvy
1983·4.1
Watch Your Back, Professor!
1977·5.0
Kassen stemmer
1976·5.4
Bertram og Lisa
1975·7.7
Nineteen Red Roses
1974·7.7
The Olsen Gang Runs Amok
1973·6.8
The Olsen Gang's Big Score
1972·6.8
The Olsen Gang in Jutland
1971·7.0
Tjærehandleren
1971·5.2
Our Home Is Our Castle
1971·6.8
Revolution My A..
1970·6.4
The Only Way
1970·6.3
Det var en lørdag aften
1968·7.0
Old Maids
1966·9.5
Mor bag rattet
1965·5.8
Landmandsliv
1965·6.0
Passer Babysitting Girls
1965·5.9
Death Comes at High Noon
1964·7.6
Dust for all the Money
1963·6.5
Peters landlov
1963·5.5
Still Dust on the Brain
1962·6.6
Den kære familie
1962·7.2
Dust on the Brain
1961·6.5
Cirkus Buster
1961·6.3
Poeten og Lillemor i forårshumør
1961·6.6
The Poet and Lillemor and Lotte
1960·5.8
Onkel Bill fra New York
1959·5.4
The Poet and the Little Mother
1959·6.6
3 må man være
1959·7.7
Mor skal giftes
1958·6.3
Over alle grænser
1958·6.3
Cupid on the Phone
1957·5.5
Englen i sort
1957·6.9
Tante Tut fra Paris
1956·6.0
Kispus
1956·6.2
På tro og love
1955·6.7
The bride from Dragstrup
1955·7.0
Himlen er blaa
1954·7.3
Hendes store aften
1954·6.5
Sunstroke
1953·5.7
For freedom and justice
1949·6.2
Hvor er Far
1948·7.0
Penge som græs
1948·8.3
My Name Is Petersen
1947·6.7
Take What You Want
1947·8.0
We Meet at Tove's
1946·6.7
Eight Chords
1944·7.7
Frihed, lighed og Louise
1944·7.7
Spurve under taget
1944·7.7
En pige uden lige
1943·7.5
Søren Søndervold
1942·8.0