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Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthday
May 1, 1927
Died
July 31, 2004
Place of Birth
Casalecchio di Reno, Emilia-Romagna, Italy
Also Known As
- ラウラ・ベッティ
- Laura Trombetti
Laura Betti
0.5 Popularity
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. 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
7.3
Irina (archive footage) (uncredited)
Marx Can Wait
2021
0.0
Self
Maresco / Pasolini
2021
0.0
Self (archive footage)
Laura's Passion
2011
7.7
Self (archive footage)
The Beaches of Agnès
2008
0.0
Interviewee
Pasolini and the Secret Humiliation of Chaucer
2006
0.0
Presidente Del Tribunale
Fratella e Sorello
2005
0.0
Usuraia
Raul - Right to Kill
2005
0.0
Madre Superiora
Renzo e Lucia
2004
0.0
Contessa Celi Sanguineti
Household Accounts
2003
3.3
Suora guardiana
Happiness Costs Nothing
2003
Credits
Marx Can Wait
as Irina (archive footage) (uncredited)
2021
7.3
Maresco / Pasolini
as Self
2021
0.0
Laura's Passion
as Self (archive footage)
2011
0.0
The Beaches of Agnès
as Self (archive footage)
2008
7.7
Pasolini and the Secret Humiliation of Chaucer
as Interviewee
2006
0.0
Fratella e Sorello
as Presidente Del Tribunale
2005
0.0
Raul - Right to Kill
as Usuraia
2005
0.0
Renzo e Lucia
as Madre Superiora
2004
0.0
Household Accounts
as Contessa Celi Sanguineti
2003
0.0
Happiness Costs Nothing
as Suora guardiana
2003
3.3
Gli astronomi
as Pavoncella
2003
0.0
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Il diario di Matilde Manzoni
as Teresa Manzoni Borri
2002
0.0
Fat Girl
as Fernando's Mother
2001
6.2
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Pasolini, el poeta en la playa
as Herself
2000
5.7
The Protagonists
as Judge
1999
5.3
Marianna Ucrìa
as Giuseppa
1997
6.5
We Free Kings
as Una delle ragazze del coro
1996
6.0
Un eroe borghese
as Dottoressa Trebbi
1995
6.5
With Closed Eyes
as Beatrice
1994
6.7
Mario, Maria and Mario
as Laura
1993
5.7
La ribelle
as Sister Valida
1993
4.4
The Great Pumpkin
as Aida
1993
6.7
Suffocating Heat
as Laura
1991
0.0
Gallant Ladies
as Catherine de Medicis
1990
3.0
The Carpathian Mushroom
as Olympia
1990
5.2
Le rose blu
as La donna con la rosa blu
1990
0.0
I cammelli
as Milena
1988
5.8
Jane B. by Agnès V.
as Lardy
1988
6.7
Widow's Walk
as Keli
1987
5.5
Jenatsch
as Mademoiselle von Planta
1987
5.1
Sweets from a Stranger
as Jolanda
1987
5.0
Blame it on Paradise
as direttrice
1985
6.4
Mother Ebe
as Lidia Corradi
1985
4.3
Cinecittà Cinecittà
as Caterina Elisabetta Magrevich
1985
0.0
The Defective Detective
as Carlotta Batticelli
1984
7.5
Class Relations
as Brunelda
1984
6.8
Art of Love
as Clio
1983
5.0
Venise en hiver
as Mme Poli
1982
1.0
The Charterhouse of Parma
as The Vivandière
1982
10.0
The Night of Varennes
as Virginia Capacelli
1982
6.8
Far from Manhattan
as Madame Hanska
1982
7.6
The Wings of the Dove
as Zia Maud
1981
0.0
Whoever Says the Truth Shall Die
as Self
1981
4.9
My Name Is Anna Magnani
as Self
1980
8.0
The Little Archimedes
as La signora Bondi
1980
7.0
🎬
Einzelzimmer
as Calogera
1979
0.0
Lovers and Liars
as Laura
1979
3.9
The Word
as Maria
1978
5.0
Butterfly on the Shoulder
as Mme Carrabo
1978
5.9
At Night All Cats Are Crazy
as Jacqueline
1977
5.5
The Seagull
as Irina
1977
5.6
The Gang
as Felicia
1977
6.2
1900
as Regina
1976
7.8
Private Vices, Public Virtues
as Teresa
1976
5.2
Pier Paolo Pasolini : vivre et encore plus
as Elle-même
1976
0.0
Abicinema
as Self
1975
6.0
The Last Day of School Before Christmas
as Passenger coach
1975
0.0
The Woman with Red Boots
as Léonore
1974
5.5
The Murri Affair
as Tisa Borghi
1974
6.6
Allonsanfan
as Esther Imbriani
1974
6.7
The Cousin
as Rosalia Scuderi
1974
5.5
The Return
as Clara
1973
0.0
Woman Buried Alive
as Giovanna la Pazza
1973
2.3
Slap the Monster on Page One
as Rita Zigai
1972
7.6
The Canterbury Tales
as The Wife from Bath
1972
6.1
Sonny and Jed
as Betty
1972
5.8
In the Name of the Father
as Franco's Mother
1971
6.4
A Bay of Blood
as Anna Fossati
1971
6.6
A Man Called Sledge
as Sister
1970
6.0
Stop the World... I Want to Get Off!
1970
5.5
Hatchet for the Honeymoon
as Mildred Harrington
1970
6.4
Paulina Is Leaving
as Hortense
1969
2.0
RARA
1969
3.3
Orgy
as Donna
1968
0.0
Theorem
as Emilia, the Servant
1968
7.0
Caprice Italian Style
as Desdemona
1968
6.1
What Are the Clouds?
as Desdemona
1968
8.5
Oedipus Rex
as Jocasta's Maid (uncredited)
1967
6.7
The Witches
as Male Tourist (segment "La Terra vista dalla Luna")
1967
6.0
The Earth As Seen from the Moon
as un turista
1967
8.2
Ecco
as Self
1963
4.3
Ro.Go.Pa.G.
as Sonia, the 'Diva' (segment "La ricotta")
1963
7.2
Escape by Night
as Teresa
1960
6.9
Red Lips
as The Painter
1960
0.0
La Dolce Vita
as Laura
1960
8.0
Discorama
as Self
1959
0.0
Noi siamo le colonne
as La cantante annoiata (no acreditado)
1956
0.0