Acting

Helle Virkner

Helle Virkner es conocido sobre todo por El reino, Matador, Huset på Christianshavn y Taxa. Helle Virkner nació el 15 de septiembre de 1925. Helle Virkner murió el 10 de junio de 2009 a los 83 años.

Nacimiento: 15 de septiembre de 1925
Lugar de nacimiento: Gammel Rye, Aarhus, Denmark
Fallecimiento: 10 de junio de 2009 (83 años)

Biografía

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.