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name: "Lotte Lenya"
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roles: ["Actor"]
born: "17 October 1898"
died: "27 November 1981"
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average_as: "actor"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-18T11:01:40.315849+00:00"
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# Lotte Lenya

Actor. Born 17 October 1898 in Vienna, Austria. Died 27 November 1981.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 17 October 1898, Vienna, Austria
- **Died:** 27 November 1981
- **Also known as:** Lotte Lenja
- **Academy Awards:** 1 Oscar nomination
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lotte_Lenya, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q93604, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0502322/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/9898

## Biography

Lotte Lenya (also credited as Lotte Lenja) was an Austrian-American actress and singer. Born Karoline Wilhelmine Charlotte Blamauer in Vienna on 18 October 1898, she studied ballet and drama in Zurich from 1914 and worked in Berlin theatres in the 1920s.

She is best known for her performances in works by her first husband, composer Kurt Weill, including the role of Jenny in the original 1928 production of *Die Dreigroschenoper* (*The Threepenny Opera*). In English-language cinema she appeared in *The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone* (1961) and played Rosa Klebb in *From Russia with Love* (1963). She died in New York on 27 November 1981.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, britannica.com, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *From Russia with Love* (1963), Fi1m 84, as Rosa Klebb — [page](https://film.one/film/from-russia-with-love.md)

## Complete filmography (12)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *One Hat is One Hat* (2026), Songs
- *Dreadful Penny Dreadful* (2025), Acting
- *I'm a Stranger Here Myself: Kurt Weill in America* (1992), Acting
- *Semi-Tough* (1977), as Carla Pelf
- *The Appointment* (1969), as Emma Valadier
- *NET Playhouse* (1966), series, Acting
- *Ten Blocks on the Camino Real* (1966), as The Gypsy
- *Mother Courage and Her Children - A chronicle from the Thirty Years' War* (1965), as Mutter Courage
- *From Russia with Love* (1963), as Rosa Klebb — Fi1m 84, [page](https://film.one/film/from-russia-with-love.md)
- *The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone* (1961), as Contessa Magda Terribili-Gonzales
- *George Grosz' Interregnum* (1960), as Narrator
- *The 3 Penny Opera* (1931), as Jenny

## Gallery

- ![Gedenktafel für Lotte Lenya in der Ameisgasse 38 in Wien-Penzing. (2014)](https://film.one/media/person/1025249/gallery-6f752fd139c9.jpg) Gedenktafel für Lotte Lenya in der Ameisgasse 38 in Wien-Penzing. (2014) — Ewald Judt, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0a/1140_Ameisgasse_38_-_Lotte_Lenya-Gedenktafel_IMG_5769.jpg/1280px-1140_Ameisgasse_38_-_Lotte_Lenya-Gedenktafel_IMG_5769.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Berlin memorial plaque, Kurt Weill, Altonaer Straße 22, Berlin-Hansaviertel, Germany (2013)](https://film.one/media/person/1025249/gallery-b470a989faff.jpg) Berlin memorial plaque, Kurt Weill, Altonaer Straße 22, Berlin-Hansaviertel, Germany (2013) — OTFW, Berlin, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d5/Berliner_Gedenktafel_Altonaer_Str_22_%28Hansa%29_Kurt_Weill.jpg/1280px-Berliner_Gedenktafel_Altonaer_Str_22_%28Hansa%29_Kurt_Weill.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Lotte Lenya](https://film.one/media/person/1025249/gallery-3563fce1b555.jpg) Lotte Lenya — Image via TMDB

## Awards

### Academy Awards — 0 won, 1 nominated

- 1962: Best Supporting Actress (nominated), for *The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone*

### Other awards — 0 won, 1 nominated

- Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical 1967: Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical (nominated)

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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