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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).

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Highest rated movies

97% 84% From Russia With Love
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83% 87% The Threepenny Opera
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83% 33% Semi-Tough
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0% 58% The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone
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72% The Appointment
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Lotte Lenya

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Filmography

Movies

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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

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