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Also known as Karoline Wilhelmine Charlotte Blamauer

Austrian singer and actress (1898-1981)

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  • Speak Low

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Type
Person
Country
AT
Active from
1898-10-18
Active to
1981-11-27

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Lotte Lenya (October 18, 1898 – November 27, 1981), singer and actress, born Karoline Wilhelmine Blamauer, in Vienna, Austria. She is best known for her performance as Jenny in Kurt Weill's and Bertolt Brecht's The Threepenny Opera, and some other Brecht-Weill plays. To a younger audience, she is known for her part as the villain Rosa Klebb in the James Bond movie From Russia with Love. As a child of working class Roman Catholic parents, Lenya wanted to be a dancer. <a href="https://www.last.fm

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Born
Karoline Wilhelmine Charlotte Blamauer , ( 1898-10-18 ) 18 October 1898, Vienna , Austria-Hungary
Died
27 November 1981 (1981-11-27) (aged 83), New York City , U.S.
Occupations
Actress singer
Years active
1922–1980

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www.kwf.org/lotte-lenya
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pseudonym
Lotte Lenya
birth name
Karoline Wilhelmine Charlotte Blamauer
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Lotte Lenya
date of birth
1898-10-18
date of death
1981-11-27
start of work period
1928-00-00
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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).

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