Laura Betti

Acting · 0.9 popularity

Age

Movies

Born: May 1, 1927 – July 31, 2004
From: Casalecchio di Reno, Emilia-Romagna, Italy

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.

Works

83 films

La Dolce Vita

19608.0

The Cousin

19745.4

Fat Girl

20016.2

Lovers and Liars

19794.3

1900

19767.8

The Canterbury Tales

19726.1

A Bay of Blood

19716.6

The Gang

19776.1

Theorem

19687.0

ABCinema

19756.0

Oedipus Rex

19676.8

The Witches

19676.0

That Night of Varennes

19826.9

With Closed Eyes

19947.3

The Beaches of Agnès

20087.7

Class Relations

19846.8

Hatchet for the Honeymoon

19706.4

The Great Pumpkin

19936.7

Private Vices, Public Virtues

19765.2

Jane B. by Agnès V.

19886.8

A Man Called Sledge

19706.1

Marx Can Wait

20217.3

Allonsanfan

19746.9

Einzelzimmer

19798.0

Gli astronomi

20039.0

Art of Love

19835.3

Paulina Is Leaving

19694.0

Marianna Ucrìa

19976.7

Ro.Go.Pa.G.

19637.2

Caprice Italian Style

19686.1

Gallant Ladies

19904.0

Mother Ebe

19854.9

At Night All Cats Are Crazy

19777.8

The Woman with Red Boots

19745.6

Maresco / Pasolini

2021

The Murri Affair

19746.6

Mario, Maria and Mario

19935.8

The Defective Detective

19847.3

Slap the Monster on Page One

19727.7

Butterfly on the Shoulder

19785.9

La ricotta

19636.7

The Protagonists

19995.4

Woman Buried Alive

19733.5

Sonny and Jed

19725.8

Far from Manhattan

19827.8

La ribelle

19934.8

Escape by Night

19607.0

Sweets from a Stranger

19875.1

The Little Archimedes

19808.0

Widow's Walk

19875.7

Raul - Right to Kill

20059.0

Blame it on Paradise

19856.5

We Free Kings

19966.5

Happiness Costs Nothing

20033.9

Un eroe borghese

19956.7

What Are the Clouds?

19688.5

Jenatsch

19875.3

Noi siamo le colonne

1956

Ecco

19634.8

In the Name of the Father

19716.4

Whoever Says the Truth Shall Die

19815.5

Renzo e Lucia

20049.0

I cammelli

19885.9

My Name Is Anna Magnani

19808.7

Suffocating Heat

19918.0

Il diario di Matilde Manzoni

20028.0

Le rose blu

19907.0

The Seagull

19775.8

Fratella e Sorello

200510.0

The Earth As Seen from the Moon

19678.2

Red Lips

196010.0

RARA

19693.3

The Carpathian Mushroom

19905.2

Household Accounts

200310.0

Stop the World... I Want to Get Off!

19707.8

Pasolini, el poeta en la playa

20006.0

The Return

19738.0

Venise en hiver

19824.0

Laura's Passion

2011

The Last Day of School Before Christmas

19757.0

Pasolini and the Secret Humiliation of Chaucer

20066.0

Pier Paolo Pasolini : vivre et encore plus

1976

Orgy

1968