AKA: Karoline Wilhelmina Charlotte Blamauer
Nationality: Austrian
Birthdate: 10/18/1898
Birthplace: Vienna, Austria
Death Date: 11/27/1981
Star of a number of Bertolt Brecht-Kurt Weill musicals who came to prominence as Pirate Jenny in both the stage and screen versions of "The Threepenny Opera" (1931). A vivid singer and presence, Lenya fled Nazi Germany with husband Weill in 1933 and subsequently appeared in occasional film and theater roles. She was especially memorable as the villainous lesbian Rosa Kleb in the James Bond adventure, "From Russia With Love" (1963).
Countess Magda Terribili-Gonzales
First professional appearance at age 6 as dancer and tightrope walker
Became member of Corps de Ballet at Zurich Civic Theater
1923
First billed as Lotte Lenya; professional acting debut as Maria in "Twelfth Night"
1927
First appearance in Kurt Weill/Bertold Brecht collaboration, "Mahagonny Songspiel"
