Lotte Lenya
Acting

Lotte Lenya

Born 17 October 1898 · Vienna, Austria · Died 27 November 1981

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

From Russia with Love
The 3 Penny Opera
Semi-Tough
The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone
The Appointment
Mother Courage and Her Children - A chronicle from the Thirty Years' War
George Grosz' Interregnum
Ten Blocks on the Camino Real
Dreadful Penny Dreadful
Dreadful Penny Dreadful
Semi-Tough
The Appointment
Ten Blocks on the Camino Real
Mother Courage and Her Children - A chronicle from the Thirty Years' War
From Russia with Love
The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone
George Grosz' Interregnum
The 3 Penny Opera
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