What is Lotte Lenya?
{{Infobox person | name = Lotte Lenya | image = Lotte Lenya.jpg | imagesize = 180px | caption = photographed by [[Carl Van Vechten]], 1962 | birth_name = Karoline Wilhelmine Charlotte Blamauer | birth_date = {{Birth date|df=yes|1898|10|18}} | birth_place = [[Vienna]], [[Austria-Hungary]] | death_date = {{death date and age|1981|11|27|1898|10|18|df=yes}} | death_place = [[New York City]], U.S. | occupation = Actress | spouse = {{Plainlist| * {{marriage|[[Kurt Weill]]|1926|1933|end=div}}<br>{{marriage||1937|1950|end=d}} * {{marriage|George Davis|1951|1957|end=d}} * {{marriage|Russell Detwiler<br>|1962|1969|end=d}}}} | years_active = 1922–1981}} '''Lotte Lenya''' (born '''Karoline Wilhelmine Charlotte Blamauer'''; 18 October 1898 – 27 November 1981) was an [[Austrian]]–[[Americans|American]] singer, and actress.<ref>Obituary ''[[Variety Obituaries|Variety]]'', December 2, 1981.</ref> She sang [[Kurt Weill]]'s songs. He was her first husband. She married him twice. In English-language cinema, she was nominated for an [[Academy Awards|Academy Award]] for playing an aristocrat in ''[[The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone]]'' (1961). Her performance as the murderous and [[sadism|sadistic]] [[Rosa Klebb]] in the [[James Bond]] movie ''[[From Russia with Love]]'' (1963) is famous. == References == {{reflist}} {{authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Lenya, Lotte}} [[Category:1898 births]] [[Category:1981 deaths]] [[Category:Actors from Vienna]] [[Category:Actors who played Bond villains]] [[Category:American movie actors]] [[Category:American musical theatre actors]] [[Category:Actors from New York City]] [[Category:Austrian movie actors]] [[Category:Austrian singers]] [[Category:Austrian stage actors]] [[Category:Cancer deaths in New York City]] [[Category:Naturalized citizens of the United States]] [[Category:Singers from New York City]]