Lotte Lenya

Lotte Lenya

Austrian singer and actress
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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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Lotte Lenya was born on Tuesday, 18 October 1898 in Vienna-Penzing, Austria-Hungary. Her full name at birth was Karoline Wilhelmine Charlotte Blamauer. She was best known as an actress. Lenya's country of citizenship (nationality) was Austrian. She died on Friday, 27 November 1981 in New York, New York, USA at the age of 83. She is buried at Mount Repose Cemetery, Haverstraw, Rockland County, New York, USA. She had dark brown eyes and dark brown hair (color). Her zodiac star sign was Libra.

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Karoline Wilhelmine Charlotte Blamauer
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From Russia with Love (1963)
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18 October 1898
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Vienna-Penzing, Austria-Hungary
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27 November 1981
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83 (age at death)
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New York, New York, USA
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Cancer
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Mount Repose Cemetery, Haverstraw, Rockland County, New York, USA
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Actor
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