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.

Filmography

• 2026One Hat is One Hat — Songs
• 2025Dreadful Penny Dreadful
• 1992I'm a Stranger Here Myself: Kurt Weill in America
• 1977Semi-Tough — Carla Pelf
• 1969The Appointment — Emma Valadier
• NET Playhouse
• 1966Ten Blocks on the Camino Real — The Gypsy
• 1965Mother Courage and Her Children - A chronicle from the Thirty Years' War — Mutter Courage
• 1963From Russia with Love — Rosa Klebb
• 1961The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone — Contessa Magda Terribili-Gonzales
• 1960George Grosz' Interregnum — Narrator
• 1931The 3 Penny Opera — Jenny

Appearances as themselves (10)

• 2021Lotte Lenya - Warum bin ich nicht froh? — Self (archive footage)
• Popular Voices at the BBC — Self (archive footage)
• 1994September Songs: The Music of Kurt Weill — Self
• 1989The Exiles — Self
• 1980No. 18: Mahagonny — Self (voice)
• The Dick Cavett Show — Self - Guest
• 1965The Incredible World of James Bond — Self (archive footage)
• The Merv Griffin Show — Self
• 1961Lotte Lenya Sings Kurt Weill — Self
• Treffpunkt New York — Self