Lotte Lenya
Known for ActingBorn 1898-10-17 — died 1981-11-27Vienna-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).
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Known for
From Russia with Love
1963 · as Rosa Klebb
Semi-Tough
1977 · as Carla Pelf
The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone
1961 · as Contessa Magda Terribili-Gonzales
The Appointment
1969 · as Emma Valadier
The Incredible World of James Bond
1965 · as Self (archive footage)
The 3 Penny Opera
1931 · as Jenny
No. 18: Mahagonny
1980 · as Self (voice)
I'm a Stranger Here Myself: Kurt Weill in America
1992
The Exiles
1989 · as Self
September Songs: The Music of Kurt Weill
1994 · as Self
Ten Blocks on the Camino Real
1966 · as The Gypsy
Mother Courage and Her Children - A chronicle from the Thirty Years' War
1965 · as Mutter Courage
Lotte Lenya Sings Kurt Weill
1961 · as Self
Dreadful Penny Dreadful
2025
Lotte Lenya - Warum bin ich nicht froh?
2021 · as Self (archive footage)
George Grosz' Interregnum
1960 · as Narrator