Lotte Lenya

Lotte Lenya (18 October 1898 – 27 November 1981) was an Austrian 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 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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Lotte Lenya
Alias (AKA)Lenja Lotte; Blamauer Karoline Wilhelmine Charlotte
Birth dateOctober 18, 1898
Birth nameKaroline Wilhelmine Charlotte Blamauer
Birth place
Austria-Hungary , Vienna
Date of deathNovember 27, 1981
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