Lotte Lenya

Acting

Born October 17, 1898 · Vienna-Penzing, Austria-Hungary [now Austria]

Died November 27, 1981

Also known as Lotte Lenja · Karoline Blamauer · Karoline Blamauer Weill

Biography

Lotte Lenya 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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