Lotte Lenya

Lotte Lenya is one of those figures I think more people should know. An Austrian-American singer and actress, she's inseparable from the work of her husband Kurt Weill, and her unmistakable voice defined songs like Mack the Knife for generations. She won a Tony for her stage work and later reached a wider audience playing the villainous Rosa Klebb in a James Bond film, which always amazes me given her serious theatrical roots. What I admire is the range, from Weimar-era cabaret to Broadway to Hollywood. She lived through enormous upheaval and kept reinventing herself, and that durability is what makes her so memorable to me.

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Name (English)

Lotte Lenya

Name (Japanese)

ロッテ・レーニャ

Reading

ろって・れーにゃ

Born

October 18, 1898 – November 27, 1981

Origin

Vienna, Austria

Occupation

stage actor / film actor / monologist / actor / opera singer

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Libra / Dog

Awards & achievements

• Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Musical

• Official sitehttps://www.kwf.org/lotte-lenya/
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lotte%20Lenya
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%AD%E3%83%83%E3%83%86%E3%83%BB%E3%83%AC%E3%83%BC%E3%83%8B%E3%83%A3
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q93604

Tags

• stage actor
• film actor
• monologist

Last updated

September 18, 2026

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