Lotte Lenya
Acting Born Oct 17, 1898 Vienna-Penzing, Austria-Hungary 21 credits
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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Full filmography
- The Merv Griffin Show (1962) as Self
- The Dick Cavett Show (1968) as Self - Guest
- From Russia with Love (1963) as Rosa Klebb
- NET Playhouse (1966)
- Treffpunkt New York (1961) as Self
- Semi-Tough (1977) as Carla Pelf
- The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone (1961) as Contessa Magda Terribili-Gonzales
- The Appointment (1969) as Emma Valadier
- The Exiles (1989) as Self
- The Incredible World of James Bond (1965) as Self (archive footage)
- Popular Voices at the BBC (2017) as Self (archive footage)
- The 3 Penny Opera (1931) as Jenny
- I'm a Stranger Here Myself: Kurt Weill in America (1992)
- Ten Blocks on the Camino Real (1966) as The Gypsy
- No. 18: Mahagonny (1980) as Self (voice)
- Mother Courage and Her Children - A chronicle from the Thirty Years' War (1965) as Mutter Courage
- Lotte Lenya Sings Kurt Weill (1961) as Self
- September Songs: The Music of Kurt Weill (1994) as Self
- George Grosz' Interregnum (1960) as Narrator
- Dreadful Penny Dreadful (2025)
- Lotte Lenya - Warum bin ich nicht froh? (2021) as Self (archive footage)