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.

Known For: Acting

Born: Casalecchio di Reno, Emilia-Romagna, Italy, 1927-05-01

Died: 2004-07-31

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1956	Noi siamo le colonne	La cantante annoiata (no acreditado)	0
2	1960	La Dolce Vita	Laura	81
3	1960	Red Lips	The Painter	0
4	1960	Escape by Night	Teresa	69
5	1963	Ro.Go.Pa.G.	Sonia, the 'Diva' (segment "La ricotta")	72
6	1963	Ecco	Self	50
7	1967	The Witches	Male Tourist (segment "La Terra vista dalla Luna")	61
8	1967	The Earth As Seen from the Moon	un turista	82
9	1967	Oedipus Rex	Jocasta's Maid (uncredited)	68
10	1968	What Are the Clouds?	Desdemona	85
11	1968	Caprice Italian Style	Desdemona	62
12	1968	Theorem	Emilia, the Servant	71
13	1968	Orgy	Donna	0
14	1969	RARA		45
15	1969	Paulina Is Leaving	Hortense	25
16	1970	Hatchet for the Honeymoon	Mildred Harrington	65
17	1970	Stop the World... I Want to Get Off!		55
18	1970	A Man Called Sledge	Sister	61
19	1971	A Bay of Blood	Anna Fossati	66
20	1971	In the Name of the Father	Franco's Mother	64
21	1972	Sonny and Jed	Betty	59
22	1972	The Canterbury Tales	The Wife from Bath	62
23	1972	Slap the Monster on Page One	Rita Zigai	76
24	1973	Woman Buried Alive	Giovanna la Pazza	30
25	1973	The Return	Clara	0
26	1974	The Cousin	Rosalia Scuderi	56
27	1974	Allonsanfan	Esther Imbriani	67
28	1974	The Murri Affair	Tisa Borghi	66
29	1974	The Woman with Red Boots	Léonore	57
30	1975	The Last Day of School Before Christmas		0
31	1975	Abicinema	Self	60
32	1976	Pier Paolo Pasolini : vivre et encore plus	Elle-même	0
33	1976	Private Vices, Public Virtues	Teresa	53
34	1976	1900	Regina	78
35	1977	The Gang	Felicia	62
36	1977	The Seagull	Irina	60
37	1977	At Night All Cats Are Crazy	Jacqueline	55
38	1978	Butterfly on the Shoulder	Mme Carrabo	60
39	1979	Lovers and Liars	Laura	41
40	1979	Einzelzimmer	Calogera	0
41	1980	The Little Archimedes	La signora Bondi	70
42	1980	My Name Is Anna Magnani	Self	80
43	1981	Whoever Says the Truth Shall Die	Self	54
44	1982	Far from Manhattan	Madame Hanska	76
45	1982	The Night of Varennes	Virginia Capacelli	69
46	1982	Venise en hiver	Mme Poli	10
47	1983	The Art of Love	Clio	48
48	1984	Class Relations	Brunelda	68
49	1984	The Defective Detective	Carlotta Batticelli	75
50	1985	Mother Ebe	Lidia Corradi	46
51	1985	Blame it on Paradise	direttrice	65
52	1987	Sweets from a Stranger	Jolanda	52
53	1987	Jenatsch	Mademoiselle von Planta	55
54	1987	Widow's Walk	Keli	56
55	1988	Jane B. by Agnès V.	Lardy	68
56	1988	I cammelli	Milena	58
57	1990	Le rose blu	La donna con la rosa blu	0
58	1990	The Carpathian Mushroom	Olympia	52
59	1990	Gallant Ladies	Catherine de Medicis	33
60	1991	Suffocating Heat	Laura	0
61	1993	The Great Pumpkin	Aida	67
62	1993	La ribelle	Sister Valida	47
63	1993	Mario, Maria and Mario	Laura	57
64	1994	With Closed Eyes	Beatrice	59
65	1995	Un eroe borghese	Dottoressa Trebbi	65
66	1996	We Free Kings	Una delle ragazze del coro	60
67	1997	Marianna Ucrìa	Giuseppa	65
68	1999	The Protagonists	Judge	54
69	2000	Pasolini, el poeta en la playa	Herself	57
70	2001	Fat Girl	Fernando's Mother	62
71	2002	Il diario di Matilde Manzoni	Teresa Manzoni Borri	0
72	2003	Gli astronomi	Pavoncella	0
73	2003	Happiness Costs Nothing	Suora guardiana	36
74	2003	Household Accounts	Contessa Celi Sanguineti	0
75	2004	Renzo e Lucia	Madre Superiora	0
76	2005	Raul - Right to Kill	Usuraia	0
77	2005	Fratella e sorello	Presidente del Tribunale	0
78	2006	Pasolini and the Secret Humiliation of Chaucer	Interviewee	0
79	2008	La Rabbia di Pasolini	Self (archive footage)	75
80	2008	The Beaches of Agnès	Self (archive footage)	77
81	2011	Laura's Passion	Self (archive footage)	0
82	2021	Maresco / Pasolini	Self	0
83	2021	Marx Can Wait	Irina (archive footage) (uncredited)	73

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1956