Lotte Lenya

Lotte Lenya was an Austrian singer, diseuse, and actress, long based in the United States. In the Germanspeaking and classical music world she is best remembered for her performances of the songs of her husband, Kurt Weill. In Englishlanguage cinema, she was nominated for an Academy Award for her role as a jaded aristocrat in The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone . She also played the murderous and sadistic Rosa Klebb in the James Bond movie From Russia with Love .

Lenya was born Karoline Wilhelmine Charlotte Blamauer to Catholic working class parents in Vienna. She went to Zrich to study in 1914, taking her first job at the Schauspielhaus, using the stage name Lotte Lenja. She moved to Berlin to seek work in 1921.

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