Lotte Lenya

Lotte Lenya born Karoline Wilhelmine Charlotte Blamauer 18 October 1898 27 November 1981 was an AustrianAmerican singer diseuse and actress long based in the United States In the Germanspeaking and classical music world she is best remembered for her performances of the songs of her first husband Kurt Weill In Englishlanguage 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 sadistic Rosa Klebb in the James Bond movie From Russia with Love 1963 Description above from the Wikipedia article Lotte Lenya licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia