Lotte Lenya
Profile info
Known forActing
GenderFemale
Birthday17 October 1898
Died27 November 1981 (age 83)
Place of birthVienna, Austria
Known credits22
Biography
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 t…
One Hat is One Hat
2026 · Songs
Dreadful Penny Dreadful
2025
Lotte Lenya - Warum bin ich nicht froh?
2021 · Self (archive footage)
Popular Voices at the BBC
2017 · Self (archive footage)
September Songs: The Music of Kurt Weill
1994 · Self
I'm a Stranger Here Myself: Kurt Weill in America
1992
The Exiles
1989 · Self
No. 18: Mahagonny
1980 · Self (voice)
Semi-Tough
1977 · Carla Pelf
The Appointment
1969 · Emma Valadier
The Dick Cavett Show
1968 · Self - Guest
Ten Blocks on the Camino Real
1966 · The Gypsy
NET Playhouse
1966
The Incredible World of James Bond
1965 · Self (archive footage)
Mother Courage and Her Children - A chronicle from the Thirty Years' War
1965 · Mutter Courage
From Russia with Love
1963 · Rosa Klebb
The Merv Griffin Show
1962 · Self
The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone
1961 · Contessa Magda Terribili-Gonzales
Lotte Lenya Sings Kurt Weill
1961 · Self
Treffpunkt New York
1961 · Self
George Grosz' Interregnum
1960 · Narrator
The 3 Penny Opera
1931 · Jenny
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