Acting
Helle Virkner
- Born
- Sep 15, 1925 · Aged 83
- Died
- Jun 10, 2009
- Place of birth
- Gammel Rye, Aarhus, Denmark
- Gender
- Female
- Movie credits
- 56
- TV credits
- 5
Also known as (3)
- Helle Genie Virkner
- Хелле Виркнер
- Helle Genie Lotinga
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),…
