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Lotte Lenya (1898–1981)

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Lotte Lenya was a Tony Award-winning and Academy award-nominated actress and singer who is best remembered for her supporting role as Rosa Klebb in the classic Bond film From Russia with Love. She was born Karoline Wilhelmine Charlotte Blaumauer on October 18, 1898, in Vienna, Austria (at that time Austro-Hungarian Empire)... See full bio »

Born:

Karoline Wilhelmine Charlotte Blamauer
in Vienna-Penzing, Austria-Hungary. [now Austria]

Died:

(age 83) in New York City, New York, USA
Still of Lotte Lenya in From Russia with Love Still of Robert Shaw and Lotte Lenya in From Russia with Love
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1980 Mahagonny (voice)
 
1977 Semi-Tough
Clara Pelf
 
1974 CBS Daytime 90 (TV series)
Rosa Harcourt
– Trio for Lovers (1974) … Rosa Harcourt
 
1969 The Appointment
Emma Valadier
 
1966 Ten Blocks on the Camino Real (TV movie)
The Gypsy
 
1965 Mutter Courage und ihre Kinder - Eine Chronik aus dem Dreißigjährigen Krieg (TV movie)
Mutter Courage
 
1964 Bertolt Brecht: Übungstücke für Schauspieler (short)
 
1963 From Russia with Love
Rosa Klebb
 
1961 The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone
Contessa Magda Terribili-Gonzales
 
1931 The 3 Penny Opera
Jenny (as Lotte Lenja)
 
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2007 The Savages (performer: "Salomon-Song")
 
2001 Guileless Guile (short) (performer: "Denn wie Man sich bettet")
 
Show ShowSelf (7 titles)
1979 Omnibus (TV series documentary)
Herself - Interviewee
– Lotte Lenya (1979) … Herself - Interviewee
 
1973-1978 New York, New York (TV series)
Herself
– Episode dated 13 November 1978 (1978) … Herself
– Episode dated 18 March 1973 (1973) … Herself
 
1972 The Dick Cavett Show (TV series)
Herself
– Episode dated 15 November 1972 (1972) … Herself
 
1967 NET Playhouse (TV series)
Herself
– The World of Kurt Weill (1967) … Herself
 
1958-1964 Camera Three (TV series)
Herself / Nurse in Romeo and Juliet
– Brecht on Shakespeare (1964) … Herself / Nurse in Romeo and Juliet
– The Music of Kurt Weill (1958) … Herself
 
1961 Monitor (TV series documentary)
– Lotte Lenya Sings Kurt Weill (1961)
 
1960 George Grosz' Interregnum (documentary short)
Narrator
 
Show ShowArchive Footage (6 titles)
2010 Cabaret-Berlin: The Wild Scene (TV documentary)
Herself, singer
 
2007 Brecht vs. Pabst (video documentary)
Herself
 
2005 James Bond 007: From Russia with Love (Video Game)
Rosa Klebb
 
1999 Terence Young: Bond Vivant (video documentary short)
Rosa Klebb (uncredited)
 
1971 Opernführer (TV series)
 
1965 The Incredible World of James Bond (TV documentary)
Herself
 

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Personal Details

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Lenya Created the role of Jenny Diver in the original German production of "The Threepenny Opera", She recreated the role in the 1956 English version. See more »

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Kurt Weill Foundation for Music (founder). | See more »

Alternate Names:

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Biography in: "The Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives." Volume One, 1981-1985, pages 490-492. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1998. See more »

Star Sign:

Libra