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person_profile-Laura Betti

Laura Betti Died at age: 77

Actor | Producer

Fullname:

Laura Betti

Date of Birth:

May 01, 1927

Country of birth:

Italy

Died:

Jul 31, 2004

Biography of

Laura Betti

    Laura Betti (née Trombetti; 1 May 1927 – 31 July 2004) was an Italian actress known particularly for her work with directors Federico Fellini, Pier Paolo Pasolini and Bernardo Bertolucci. She had a long friendship with Pasolini and made a documentary about him in 2001.

    Betti became famous for portraying bizarre, grotesque, eccentric, unstable or maniacal roles, like Regina in Bernardo Bertolucci's 1900, Anna the medium in Twitch of the Death Nerve, Giovanna la pazza in Woman Buried Alive, hysterical Rita Zigai in Sbatti il mostro in prima pagina, Therese in Private Vices, Public Virtues, Emilia the servant in Pier Paolo Pasolini's Teorema for which she won the Volpi Cup for Best Actress, and Mildred the protagonist's wife in Mario Bava's Hatchet for the Honeymoon.

    Born Laura Trombetti in Casalecchio di Reno, near Bologna, she grew up to be interested in singing. She first worked professionally in the arts as a jazz singer and moved to Rome.

    Betti made her film debut in Federico Fellini's La Dolce Vita (1960). In 1963, she became a close friend of the poet and movie director Pier Paolo Pasolini. Under his direction, she proved a wonderful talent and played in seven of his films, including La ricotta (1963), Teorema (Theorem, 1968), his 1972 version of The Canterbury Tales, in which she played the Wife of Bath; and his controversial Salo (1975) ("120 Days of Sodom").

    In 1976, Betti portrayed Regina, a cruel and eroto-maniacal fascist in Bernardo Bertolucci's Novecento (1900). She also played Miss Blandish in his Last Tango in Paris (1972), though her single scene was deleted.

    In 1973 she dubbed the voice of the Devil for the Italian version of William Friedkin's The Exorcist.

    From the 1960s, Betti dedicated much of her time to literature and politics. She became the muse for a number of leading political and literary figures in Italy and came to personify the revolutionary and Marxist era of 1970s Italy.

    In 2001, she made a documentary about Pasolini, Pier Paolo Pasolini e la ragione di un sogno. She also donated her papers related to their long friendship along with more than 1000 volumes and many documents connected to Pasolini to the archives of the Fondazione Cineteca di Bologna, thus creating the Centro Studi Archivio Pier Paolo Pasolini. This Centro, strongly wanted by Betti, owns also thousands of photograph and all the works of Pasolini: poetry, literature, cinema and journalism. After her death in 2004 her brother Sergio Trombetti has donated all the personal documents of her career to the Centro that has absorbed them under the name Fondo Laura Betti.

    Source: Article "Laura Betti" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

Photos of

Laura Betti

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Filmography of

Laura Betti

Found 68 Movies in total

Marx Can Wait

Irina (archive footage) (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 2021

Maresco / Pasolini

Herself ( Actor )

... 2021

Laura's Passion

Self (archive footage) ( Actor )

... 2011

The Beaches of Agnès

Self (archive footage) ( Actor )

... 2008

La Rabbia di Pasolini

Self (archive footage) ( Actor )

... 2008

Fratella e sorello

Presidente del Tribunale ( Actor )

... 2005

Raul - Right to Kill

Usuraia ( Actor )

... 2005

Renzo e Lucia

Madre Superiora ( Actor )

... 2004

... 2003

Happiness Costs Nothing

Suora guardiana ( Actor )

... 2003

Fat Girl

Fernando's Mother ( Actor )

... 2001

The Protagonists

Judge ( Actor )

... 1999

Marianna Ucrìa

Giuseppa ( Actor )

... 1997

With Closed Eyes

Beatrice ( Actor )

... 1994

Mario, Maria and Mario

Laura ( Actor )

... 1993

La Ribelle

Sister Valida ( Actor )

... 1993

Suffocating Heat

Laura ( Actor )

... 1991

Gallant Ladies

Catherine de Medicis ( Actor )

... 1990

The Carpathian Mushroom

Olympia ( Actor )

... 1990

I cammelli

Milena ( Actor )

... 1988

Jane B. for Agnès V.

Lardy ( Actor )

... 1988

Widow's Walk

Keli ( Actor )

... 1987

Jenatsch

Mademoiselle von Planta ( Actor )

... 1987

Sweets from a Stranger

Jolanda ( Actor )

... 1987

Blame it on Paradise

direttrice ( Actor )

... 1985

Mother Ebe

Lidia Corradi ( Actor )

... 1985

The Defective Detective

Carlotta Batticelli ( Actor )

... 1984

Class Relations

Brunelda ( Actor )

... 1984

The Art of Love

Clio ( Actor )

... 1983

The Night of Varennes

Virginia Capacelli ( Actor )

... 1982

Far from Manhattan

Madame Hanska ( Actor )

... 1982

... 1981

... 1980

The Little Archimedes

La signora Bondi ( Actor )

... 1979

Lovers and Liars

Laura ( Actor )

... 1979

Butterfly on the Shoulder

Mme Carrabo ( Actor )

... 1978

At Night All Cats Are Crazy

Jacqueline ( Actor )

... 1977

The Seagull

Irina ( Actor )

... 1977

The Gang

Felicia ( Actor )

... 1977

1900

Regina ( Actor )

... 1976

... 1976

Abicinema

Self ( Actor )

... 1975

... 1975

The Woman with Red Boots

Léonore ( Actor )

... 1974

The Murri Affair

Tisa Borghi ( Actor )

... 1974

Allonsanfan

Esther Imbriani ( Actor )

... 1974

The Return

Clara ( Actor )

... 1973

Woman Buried Alive

Giovanna la Pazza ( Actor )

... 1973

Slap the Monster on Page One

Rita Zigai ( Actor )

... 1972

The Canterbury Tales

The Wife from Bath ( Actor )

... 1972

Sonny and Jed

Betty ( Actor )

... 1972

In the Name of the Father

Franco's Mother ( Actor )

... 1971

A Bay of Blood

Anna Fossati ( Actor )

Additional Writing

... 1971

A Man Called Sledge

Sister ( Actor )

... 1970

... 1970

Hatchet for the Honeymoon

Mildred Harrington ( Actor )

Screenplay

... 1970

RARA

Actor

... 1969

Orgy

Donna ( Actor )

... 1968

Theorem

Emilia, the Servant ( Actor )

... 1968

Caprice Italian Style

Desdemona ( Actor )

... 1968

Oedipus Rex

Jocasta's Maid (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1967

The Witches

Male Tourist ( Actor )

... 1967

Ecco

Self ( Actor )

... 1963

Ro.Go.Pa.G.

Sonia, the 'Diva' (segment "La ricotta") ( Actor )

... 1963

Escape by Night

Teresa ( Actor )

... 1960

Red Lips

The Painter ( Actor )

... 1960

La Dolce Vita

Laura ( Actor )

... 1960

Noi siamo le colonne

La cantante annoiata (no acreditado) ( Actor )

... 1956