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Lotte Lenya

Lotte Lenya

Birthday: 1898-10-17 | Place of Birth: Vienna-Penzing, Austria-Hungary

Lotte Lenya (born Karoline Wilhelmine Charlotte Blamauer; 18 October 1898 – 27 November 1981) was an Austrian-American singer, diseuse, and actress, long based in the United States. In the German-speaking and classical music world, she is best remembered for her performances of the songs of her first husband, Kurt Weill. In English-language cinema, she was nominated for an Academy Award for her role as a jaded aristocrat in The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone (1961). She also played the murderous and sadistic Rosa Klebb in the James Bond movie From Russia with Love (1963). Description above from the Wikipedia article Lotte Lenya, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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Known For

Acting

Year
Title

Role

2021
Lotte Lenya - Warum bin ich nicht froh?

as    Self (archive footage)

1989
The Exiles

as    Self

1980
No. 18: Mahagonny

as    Self (voice)

1977
Semi-Tough

as    Carla Pelf

1969
The Appointment

as    Emma Valadier

1966
Ten Blocks on the Camino Real

as    The Gypsy

1965
The Incredible World of James Bond

as    Self (archive footage)

1964
From Russia with Love

as    Rosa Klebb

1961
The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone

as    Contessa Magda Terribili-Gonzales

1961
1960
George Grosz' Interregnum

as    Narrator

1931
The 3 Penny Opera

as    Jenny