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Lotte Lenya
Acting
17 Oct 1898
† 27 Nov 1981
Vienna-Penzing, Austria-Hungary
Biography
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...
Also Known As
Lotte Lenja, Karoline Blamauer, Karoline Blamauer Weill, Karoline Wilhelmine Charlotte Blamauer
























