Lotte Lenya

Acting

Born 1898-10-17 · died 1981-11-27 · Vienna-Penzing, Austria-Hungary

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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.

Known for

The ExilesLotte Lenya - Warum bin ich nicht froh?September Songs: The Music of Kurt WeillTen Blocks on the Camino RealMother Courage and Her Children - A chronicle from the Thirty Years' WarGeorge Grosz' InterregnumNET PlayhouseThe 3 Penny OperaFrom Russia with LoveThe Incredible World of James Bond