title: Lotte Lenya
text: Lotte Lenya (born Karoline Wilhelmine Charlotte Blamauer; 18 October 1898 – 27 November 1981) was an Austrian–American singer, and actress. 
  
  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 Award for playing an aristocrat in The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone (1961). 
  
  Her performance as the murderous and sadistic Rosa Klebb in the James Bond movie From Russia with Love (1963) is famous.
  
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  1898 births
  1981 deaths
  Actors from Vienna
  Actors who played Bond villains
  American movie actors
  American musical theatre actors
  Actors from New York City
  Austrian movie actors
  Austrian singers
  Austrian stage actors
  Cancer deaths in New York City
  Naturalized citizens of the United States
  Singers from New York City