Lotte Lenya
Actor
- Born
- October 17, 1898 · Vienna, Austria
- Died
- November 27, 1981 (age 83)
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
October 10, 1963
The 3 Penny Opera
February 18, 1931
Semi-Tough
November 18, 1977
The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone
December 28, 1961
The Appointment
May 22, 1969
Lotte Lenya Sings Kurt Weill
April 21, 1961
The Incredible World of James Bond
November 26, 1965
September Songs: The Music of Kurt Weill
January 25, 1994
Lotte Lenya - Warum bin ich nicht froh?
March 14, 2021
Mother Courage and Her Children - A chronicle from the Thirty Years' War
July 24, 1965
George Grosz' Interregnum
January 1, 1960
Ten Blocks on the Camino Real
October 7, 1966
Acting16
- 2025Dreadful Penny Dreadful
- 2021Lotte Lenya - Warum bin ich nicht froh? as Self (archive footage)
- 1994September Songs: The Music of Kurt Weill as Self
- 1992I'm a Stranger Here Myself: Kurt Weill in America
- 1989The Exiles as Self
- 1980No. 18: Mahagonny as Self (voice)
- 1977Semi-Tough as Carla Pelf
- 1969The Appointment as Emma Valadier
- 1966Ten Blocks on the Camino Real as The Gypsy
- 1965The Incredible World of James Bond