Acting
Lotte Lenya
PT, EN, DE cinema · 17 credits
Born
17 October 1898
Died
27 November 1981 (aged 83)
Birthplace
Vienna, Austria
Also known as Lotte Lenja
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
Filmography
Lotte Lenya - Warum bin ich nicht froh?
as Self (archive footage)
The Exiles
as Self
No. 18: Mahagonny
1980
No. 18: Mahagonny
as Self (voice)
Semi-Tough
as Carla Pelf
The Appointment
as Emma Valadier
Ten Blocks on the Camino Real
as The Gypsy
The Incredible World of James Bond
as Self (archive footage)
Mother Courage and Her Children - A chronicle from the Thirty Years' War
as Mutter Courage
From Russia with Love
as Rosa Klebb
The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone
as Contessa Magda Terribili-Gonzales
George Grosz' Interregnum
as Narrator
The 3 Penny Opera
as Jenny