Actor

Lotte Lenya

October 17, 1898 · Vienna, Austria

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).

Notable work

7.1
From Russia with Love (1963)
as Rosa Klebb

Often works with

Tom Aldredge
2 titles together
NET Playhouse, Ten Blocks on the Camino Real
Martin Sheen
2 titles together
NET Playhouse, Ten Blocks on the Camino Real
Hurd Hatfield
2 titles together
NET Playhouse, Ten Blocks on the Camino Real
Janet Margolin
2 titles together
NET Playhouse, Ten Blocks on the Camino Real

Full filmography · 11

Dreadful Penny Dreadful
cast
2025
I'm a Stranger Here Myself: Kurt Weill in America
cast
1992
Semi-Tough
as Carla Pelf
19775.4
The Appointment
as Emma Valadier
1969
Ten Blocks on the Camino Real
as The Gypsy
1966
Mother Courage and Her Children - A chronicle from the Thirty Years' War
as Mutter Courage
1965
From Russia with Love
as Rosa Klebb
19637.1
The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone
as Contessa Magda Terribili-Gonzales
19616.9
George Grosz' Interregnum
as Narrator
1960
The 3 Penny Opera
as Jenny
19317.1