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.
The Kingdom II
1998
The Kingdom
1994
Det var en lørdag aften
1968
Frihed, lighed og Louise
1944
Revolution My A..
1970
Poeten og Lillemor i forårshumør
1961
Kispus
1956
Dust for all the Money
1963
Flickering Lights
2000
The Olsen Gang's Big Score
1972
For freedom and justice
1949
The Olsen Gang in Jutland
1971
The Only Way
1970
Watch Your Back, Professor!
1977
The Poet and Lillemor and Lotte
1960
Cirkus Buster
1961
Den kære familie
1962
Landmandsliv
1965
Onkel Bill fra New York
1959
The Poet and the Little Mother
1959
En pige uden lige
1943
Old Maids
1966
The Olsen Gang Runs Amok
1973
Topsy Turvy
1983
Still Dust on the Brain
1962
Himlen er blaa
1954
På tro og love
1955
Kassen stemmer
1976
Our Home Is Our Castle
1971
Tjærehandleren
1971
Dust on the Brain
1961
Passer Babysitting Girls
1965
Nineteen Red Roses
1974
The bride from Dragstrup
1955
Penge som græs
1948
Take What You Want
1947
Sunstroke
1953
Hvor er Far
1948
Bertram og Lisa
1975