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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
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(1978) Elisabeth FriisThe Kingdom
(1994) Emma MogensenThe Kingdom
(1994) Emma MogensenFor frihed og ret
(1949) MariaThe Only Way
(1970) Ruth SteinThe Kingdom II
(1997) Emma MortensenHimlen er blaa
(1954) Fru LauritzenTjærehandleren
(1971) Elna, Verners koneActing
| 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 |