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Lotte Lenya

Lotte Lenja | Karoline Blamauer | Karoline Blamauer Weill

About the person
Career:

Acting

Date of birth:
1898-10-17
Place of birth:

Vienna-Penzing, Austria-Hungary

Gender:

Female

Popularity:

1

Date of death

1981-11-27

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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). Description above from the Wikipedia article Lotte Lenya, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.