Born Karoline Blamauer in Hitzing, Austria-Hungary (now Austria). A tightrope walker at age eight and later a ballet chorine in Switzerland, she rose to fame in Berlin as the voice of the Bertolt Brecht-Kurt Weill musical collaborations, notably The Threepenny Opera, in which she played a leading role both on stage and in Pabst's 1931 film version (DIE 3GROSCHENOPER). She married Weill and when the Nazis came to power fled with him through Paris to New York. Here she retired, following several stage appearances, but after her husband's death she returned to acting, recreating her legendary Jenny in a long-running off-Broadway revival of The Threepenny Opera. Other stage triumphs followed, including Cabaret. She also appeared in a handful of films (THE APPOINTMENT, 1969, and SEMI-TOUGH, 1978), most effectively as a lady villain in the James Bond thriller FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE (1963).  Nominated for Supporting Acress 1961: THE ROMAN SPRING OF MRS. STONE 1 nomination