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Aliases: Helle Genie Virkner , Хелле Виркнер , Helle Genie Lotinga

Gender: Female

Place of birth: Gammel Rye, Aarhus, Denmark

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Movie Involvements: 12

TV Involvements: 3


Most Famous Work

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.

Most Famous Work

Matador
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9

Matador

(1978) Elisabeth Friis
The Kingdom
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8

The Kingdom

(1994) Emma Mogensen
The Kingdom
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8

The Kingdom

(1994) Emma Mogensen
For frihed og ret
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6

For frihed og ret

(1949) Maria
The Only Way
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6

The Only Way

(1970) Ruth Stein
The Kingdom II
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8

The Kingdom II

(1997) Emma Mortensen
Himlen er blaa
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6

Himlen er blaa

(1954) Fru Lauritzen
Tjærehandleren
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6

Tjærehandleren

(1971) Elna, Verners kone

Acting

Year Character Movie/Tv
2001 Elsa
2000 Aunt Beate
1997 Fru Andersen
Emma Mortensen
1994 Emma Mogensen
Emma Mogensen
1983 N/A
1978 Elisabeth Friis
1977 Fru Andersen
1976 N/A
1975 N/A
1974 Marianne Durant
1973 Hallandsen's Secretary
1972 Frau des Staranwalts
1971 Karen
Elna, Verners kone
Ellen Olsen
1970 Frk. Nyborg
Fru Olsen
Ruth Stein
1968 N/A
1966 Bettina Eriksen
1965 Lykke Jeppsen
Frida von Rambow - grevinde
Fru Henriksen
1964 Eva Lindberg
1963 Bodil Henriksen
Minna Berg
1962 Fru Henriksen
Emilie
1961 Fru Bodil Henriksen
N/A
Lillemor
1960 Lillemor
1959 Susanne Høj
Elisabeth Halling
1958 Eva
Vera
1957 Bitten, Josefs forlovede
N/A
1956 Tove / Lille Tut
Eva Møller
1955 Vera Gimmer
Helene Dragstrup
1954 Fru Lauritzen
Marianne Friis
1953 Mona Miller - Mannequin
1949 Maria
1948 N/A
Anne-Marie
1947 N/A
Britta Wulff
1946 N/A
1944 N/A
N/A
En halvvoksen Pige
1943 N/A
1942 N/A
- Lillemor
Year Character Movie/Tv

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