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