Acting · Vienna-Penzing, Austria-Hungary · Born October 17, 1898
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.
MovieDreadful Penny Dreadful
2025
MovieLotte Lenya - Warum bin ich nicht froh?
2021
as Self (archive footage)
TVPopular Voices at the BBC
2017
as Self (archive footage)
MovieSeptember Songs: The Music of Kurt Weill
1994
as Self
MovieI'm a Stranger Here Myself: Kurt Weill in America
1992
MovieThe Exiles
1989
as Self
No. 18: Mahagonny
1980
as Self (voice)
MovieSemi-Tough
1977
as Carla Pelf
MovieThe Appointment
1969
as Emma Valadier
TVThe Dick Cavett Show
1968
as Self - Guest
MovieTen Blocks on the Camino Real
1966
as The Gypsy
TVNET Playhouse
1966
MovieThe Incredible World of James Bond
1965
as Self (archive footage)
MovieMother Courage and Her Children - A chronicle from the Thirty Years' War
1965
as Mutter Courage
MovieFrom Russia with Love
1963
as Rosa Klebb
TVThe Merv Griffin Show
1962
as Self
MovieThe Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone
1961
as Contessa Magda Terribili-Gonzales
MovieLotte Lenya Sings Kurt Weill
1961
as Self
Treffpunkt New York
1961
as Self
MovieGeorge Grosz' Interregnum
1960
as Narrator
MovieThe 3 Penny Opera
1931
as Jenny
