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Lotte Lenya
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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As actor
Dreadful Penny Dreadful
Lotte Lenya - Warum bin ich nicht froh?
September Songs: The Music of Kurt Weill
I'm a Stranger Here Myself: Kurt Weill in America
The Exiles
No. 18: Mahagonny
Semi-Tough
The Appointment
Ten Blocks on the Camino Real
The Incredible World of James Bond
Mother Courage and Her Children - A chronicle from the Thirty Years' War
From Russia with Love
The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone
Lotte Lenya Sings Kurt Weill
George Grosz' Interregnum
The 3 Penny Opera