Lotte Lenya
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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
Credits
From Russia with Love (1963)
as Rosa Klebb
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)
The 3 Penny Opera (1931)
as Jenny
I'm a Stranger Here Myself: Kurt Weill in America (1992)
Actor
Ten Blocks on the Camino Real (1966)
as The Gypsy
Mother Courage and Her Children - A chronicle from the Thirty Years' War (1965)
as Mutter Courage
No. 18: Mahagonny (1980)
as Self (voice)
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)
Actor
Lotte Lenya - Warum bin ich nicht froh? (2021)
as Self (archive footage)