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Helle Virkner
Gammel Rye, Aarhus, Denmark
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 m…
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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.
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2005
Skide godt, Balling!
Movie
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2001
Trækfugle
Movie Elsa
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2000
Flickering Lights
Movie Tante Beate
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1998
The Kingdom II
Movie Emma Mortensen
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1997
Station "Knock on Wood": The Gufol Mystery
TV show Fru Andersen
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1997
Taxa
TV show Fruen
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1994
The Kingdom
Movie Emma Mogensen
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1994
The Kingdom
TV show Emma Mogensen
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1983
Topsy Turvy
Movie
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1978
Matador
TV show Elisabeth Friis
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1977
Watch Your Back, Professor!
Movie Fru Andersen
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1976
Kassen stemmer
Movie
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1975
Bertram og Lisa
Movie
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1974
Nineteen Red Roses
Movie Marianne Durant
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1973
The Olsen Gang Runs Amok
Movie Hallandsens sekretær
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1972
The Olsen Gang's Big Score
Movie Fru des Staranwalts
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1971
The Olsen Gang in Jutland
Movie Karen
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1971
Tjærehandleren
Movie Elna, Verners kone
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1971
Our Home Is Our Castle
Movie Ellen Olsen
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1970
Revolution My A..
Movie Frk. Nyborg
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1970
The House at Christianshavn
TV show Fru. Olsen
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1970
The Only Way
Movie Ruth Stein
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1968
Det var en lørdag aften
Movie
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1966
Old Maids
Movie Bettina Eriksen
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1965
Mor bag rattet
Movie Lykke Jeppsen
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1965
Landmandsliv
Movie Frida von Rambow - grevinde
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1965
Passer Babysitting Girls
Movie Fru Henriksen
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1964
Death Comes at High Noon
Movie Eva Lindberg
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1963
Dust for all the Money
Movie Bodil Henriksen
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1963
Peters landlov
Movie Minna Berg
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1962
Still Dust on the Brain
Movie Fru Henriksen
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1962
Den kære familie
Movie Emilie
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1961
Dust on the Brain
Movie Fru Bodil Henriksen
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1961
Cirkus Buster
Movie
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1961
Poeten og Lillemor i forårshumør
Movie Lillemor
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1960
The Poet and Lillemor and Lotte
Movie Lillemor
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1959
Onkel Bill fra New York
Movie Susanne Høj
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1959
The Poet and the Little Mother
Movie Lillemor
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1959
3 må man være
Movie Elisabeth Halling
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1958
Mor skal giftes
Movie Eva
