Laura Betti
77 movies · 5 TV shows
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- May 1, 1927
- Died
- Jul 31, 2004 (age 77)
- Place of birth
- Casalecchio di Reno, Emilia-Romagna, Italy
- Also known as
- ラウラ・ベッティ · Laura Trombetti
Biography
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.
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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.
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Known for
Laura Betti: movies and TV shows
Acting (79)
- 2021 Marx Can Wait
as Irina (archive footage) (uncredited)
- 2006 Pasolini and the Secret Humiliation of Chaucer
as Interviewee
- 2005 Fratella e Sorello
as Presidente Del Tribunale
- 2005 Raul - Right to Kill
as Usuraia
- 2004 Renzo e Lucia
as Madre Superiora
- 2004
- 2003 Household Accounts
as Contessa Celi Sanguineti
- 2003 Happiness Costs Nothing
as Suora guardiana
- 2003 Gli astronomi
as Pavoncella
- 2002 Il diario di Matilde Manzoni
as Teresa Manzoni Borri
- 2001 Fat Girl
as Fernando's Mother
- 1999 The Protagonists
as Judge
- 1997 Marianna Ucrìa
as Giuseppa
- 1996 We Free Kings
as Una delle ragazze del coro
- 1995 Un eroe borghese
as dott.ssa Trebbi
- 1994 With Closed Eyes
as Beatrice
- 1993 Mario, Maria and Mario
as Laura
- 1993 La ribelle
as Sister Valida
- 1993 The Great Pumpkin
as Aida
- 1991 Suffocating Heat
as Laura
- 1990 Gallant Ladies
as Catherine de Medicis
- 1990 The Carpathian Mushroom
as Olympia
- 1990 Le rose blu
as La donna con la rosa blu
- 1988 I cammelli
as Milena
- 1988 Jane B. by Agnès V.
as Lardy
- 1987 Widow's Walk
as Keli
- 1987 Jenatsch
as Mademoiselle von Planta
- 1987 Sweets from a Stranger
as Jolanda
- 1985 Blame it on Paradise
as direttrice
- 1985 Mother Ebe
as Lidia Corradi
- 1985
- 1984 Class Relations
as Brunelda
- 1984 The Defective Detective
as Carlotta Batticelli
- 1983 Art of Love
as Clio
- 1982 Venise en hiver
as Mme Poli
- 1982
- 1982 That Night of Varennes
as Virginia Capacelli
- 1982 Far from Manhattan
as Madame Hanska
- 1981
- 1980 The Little Archimedes
as La signora Bondi
- 1979 Einzelzimmer
as Calogera
- 1979 Lovers and Liars
as Laura
- 1978
- 1978 Butterfly on the Shoulder
as Mme Carrabo
- 1977 At Night All Cats Are Crazy
as Jacqueline
- 1977 The Seagull
as Irina
- 1977 The Gang
as Felicia
- 1976 1900
as Regina
- 1976 Private Vices, Public Virtues
as Teresa
- 1976 Pier Paolo Pasolini : vivre et encore plus
as Elle-même
- 1975 The Last Day of School Before Christmas
as Passenger coach
- 1974 The Woman with Red Boots
as Léonore
- 1974 The Murri Affair
as Tisa Borghi
- 1974 Allonsanfan
as Esther Imbriani
- 1974 The Cousin
as Rosalia Scuderi
- 1973 The Return
as Clara
- 1973 Woman Buried Alive
as Giovanna la Pazza
- 1972 Slap the Monster on Page One
as Rita Zigai
- 1972 The Canterbury Tales
as The Wife from Bath
- 1972 Sonny and Jed
as Betty
- 1971 In the Name of the Father
as Franco's Mother
- 1971 A Bay of Blood
as Anna Fossati
- 1970 A Man Called Sledge
as Sister
- 1970
- 1970 Hatchet for the Honeymoon
as Mildred Harrington
- 1969 Paulina Is Leaving
as Hortense
- 1969
- 1968 Theorem
as Emilia, the Servant
- 1968 Caprice Italian Style
as Desdemona
- 1968 What Are the Clouds?
as Desdemona
- 1967 Oedipus Rex
as Jocasta's Maid (uncredited)
- 1967 The Witches
as Male Tourist (segment "La Terra vista dalla Luna")
- 1967 The Earth As Seen from the Moon
as un turista
- 1963
- 1963 Ro.Go.Pa.G.
as Sonia, the 'Diva' (segment "La ricotta")
- 1960 Escape by Night
as Teresa
- 1960 Red Lips
as The Painter
- 1960 La Dolce Vita
as Laura
- 1956 Noi siamo le colonne
as La cantante annoiata (no acreditado)
Behind the camera (6)
- 2002
- 2000 Film
Writer
- 1976 Il silenzio è complicità
Director
- 1971 A Bay of Blood
Additional Writing
- 1970
- 1970 Hatchet for the Honeymoon
Screenplay
Talk shows and appearances (9)
- 2021
- 2011
- 2008
- 2000
- 1981
- 1980
- 1975
- 1963
- 1959 Discorama
1 episode