Actor
Lotte Lenya
Born October 17, 1898 in Vienna, Austria
Died November 27, 19819 films
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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First watchThe 3 Penny Opera19317.1as JennyIn London at the turn of the century, underworld kingpin Mack the Knife marries Polly Peachum without the knowledge of her father, the equally enterprising 'king of the beggars'.View filmEssential films
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Filmography
9 films as actor- 2025Dreadful Penny Dreadful
- 1977Semi-ToughCarla Pelf
- 1969The AppointmentEmma Valadier
- 1966Ten Blocks on the Camino RealThe Gypsy
- 1965Mother Courage and Her Children - A chronicle from the Thirty Years' WarMutter Courage
- 1963From Russia with LoveRosa Klebb
- 1961The Roman Spring of Mrs. StoneContessa Magda Terribili-Gonzales
- 1960George Grosz' InterregnumNarrator
- 1931The 3 Penny OperaJenny