Actor

Helle Virkner

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Large and steady acting portfolio.

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Movies: 54Series: 5

TMDB ID: 209385

IMDb ID: nm0899401

Known for: Acting

Born: September 15, 1925

Died: June 10, 2009

Age: 83

Place of birth: Gammel Rye, Aarhus, Denmark

Gender: Female

Adult content flag: No

Career span: 1942 - 2000

Years active: 59

Average TMDB rating: 7.35

Wikidata: Q470023

Also known as

Helle Genie Virkner • Хелле Виркнер • Helle Genie Lotinga

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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.