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Lotte Lenya

Lotte Lenya

Highest Rated: 97% From Russia With Love (1963)

Lowest Rated: 0% The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone (1961)

Birthday: Oct 18, 1898

Birthplace: Vienna-Penzing, Austria-Hungary

Star of a number of Bertolt Brecht-Kurt Weill musicals who came to prominence as Pirate Jenny in both the stage and screen versions of "The Threepenny Opera" (1931). A vivid singer and presence, Lenya fled Nazi Germany with husband Weill in 1933 and subsequently appeared in occasional film and theater roles. She was especially memorable as the villainous lesbian Rosa Kleb in the James Bond adventure, "From Russia With Love" (1963).

Highest rated movies

97% From Russia With Love
83% Semi-Tough
83% The Threepenny Opera
0% The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone

Photos

Lotte Lenya THE THREE PENNY OPERA, (aka DIE DREIGROSCHEOPER), Lotte Lenya, Rudolph Forster, 1931 THE THREE PENNY OPERA, (aka DIE DREIGROSCHENOPER), Lotte Lenya, 1931 THE THREE PENNY OPERA, (aka DIE DREIGROSCHENOPER), Lotte Lenya, 1931 THE THREE PENNY OPERA, (aka DIE DREIGROSCHENOPER), Lotte Lenya, 1931 FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE, from left: Daniela Bianchi, Lotte Lenya, 1963 fromrussiawithlove1963-fsct018(fromrussiawithlove1963-fsct018) FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE, Lotte Lenya, 1963 FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE, Lotte Lenya, Robert Shaw, 1963. FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE, Lotte Lenya, 1963. FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE, Walter Gotell (left), Lotte Lenya (right), 1963. THE ROMAN SPRING OF MRS. STONE, Lotte Lenya, 1961 FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE, Sean Connery, Lotte Lenya, 1963, chair FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE, Walter Gotell (left), Lotte Lenya (right), 1963 THE APPOINTMENT, Lotte Lenya, 1969 FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE, Lotte Lenya, 1963 FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE, foreground from left, promoting the film: Daniela Bianchi, author Ian Fleming, Lois Maxwell, Lotte Lenya, Sean Connery, 1963 fromrussiawithlove1963-fsct004(fromrussiawithlove1963-fsct004) FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE, Lotte Lenya, 1963 FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE, Sean Connery, Lotte Lenya, 1963 THE ROMAN SPRING OF MRS. STONE, Lotte Lenya, Vivien Leigh, Jill St. John, 1961 THE ROMAN SPRING OF MRS. STONE, Lotte Lenya, Warren Beatty, 1961.
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Filmography

Movies

Credit
83% 33% Semi-Tough Clara Pelf (Character) - 1977
No Score Yet 72% The Appointment Emma Valadier (Character) - 1969
97% 84% From Russia With Love Rosa Klebb (Character) - 1963
0% 58% The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone Contessa Magda Terribili-Gonzales (Character) - 1961
83% 87% The Threepenny Opera Jenny (Character) - 1931

TV

Credit
No Score Yet No Score Yet What's My Line? Guest 1972