Lotte Lenya

Actor

Born: October 17, 1898
Died: November 27, 1981 (age 83)
From: Vienna-Penzing, Austria-Hungary

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…

Filmography (16)

Dreadful Penny Dreadful (2025)
Lotte Lenya - Warum bin ich nicht froh? (2021)
Self (archive footage)
September Songs: The Music of Kurt Weill (1994)
Self
I'm a Stranger Here Myself: Kurt Weill in America (1992)
The Exiles (1989)
Self
No. 18: Mahagonny
No. 18: Mahagonny (1980)
Self (voice)
Semi-Tough (1977)
Carla Pelf
The Appointment (1969)
Emma Valadier
Ten Blocks on the Camino Real (1966)
The Gypsy
The Incredible World of James Bond (1965)
Self (archive footage)
Mother Courage and Her Children - A chronicle from the Thirty Years' War (1965)
Mutter Courage
From Russia with Love (1963)
Rosa Klebb
The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone (1961)
Contessa Magda Terribili-Gonzales
Lotte Lenya Sings Kurt Weill (1961)
Self
George Grosz' Interregnum (1960)
Narrator
The 3 Penny Opera (1931)
Jenny