Laura Betti

Laura Betti

  • Birthday: 1927-05-01
  • Deathday: 2004-07-31
  • Place of birth: Casalecchio di Reno, Emilia-Romagna, Italy
  • Also know as: ラウラ・ベッティ

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.

Filmography

Orgy

1968

As Donna

Le rose blu

1990

As La donna con la rosa blu

The Canterbury Tales

1972

As The Wife from Bath

The Seagull

1977

As Irina

Maresco / Pasolini

2021

As Herself

Hatchet for the Honeymoon

1970

As Mildred Harrington

At Night All Cats Are Crazy

1977

As Jacqueline

The Return

1973

As Clara

Laura's Passion

2011

As Self (archive footage)

Gli astronomi

2003

As Pavoncella

Ecco

1963

As Self

Abicinema

1975

As Self

Loin de Manhattan

1982

As Madame Hanska

Allonsanfan

1974

As Esther Imbriani

Marianna Ucrìa

1997

As Giuseppa

Class Relations

1984

As Brunelda

Gallant Ladies

1990

As Catherine de Medicis

The Art of Love

1983

As Clio

The Cousin

1974

As Rosalia Scuderi

The Little Archimedes

1979

As La signora Bondi

Il diario di Matilde Manzoni

2002

As Teresa Manzoni Borri

Paulina Is Leaving

1969

As Hortense

Blame it on Paradise

1985

As direttrice

Lovers and Liars

1979

As Laura

Fratella e sorello

2005

As Presidente del Tribunale

Sweets from a Stranger

1987

As Jolanda

What Are the Clouds?

1968

As Desdemona

Jenatsch

1987

As Mademoiselle von Planta

We Free Kings

1996

As Una delle ragazze del coro

Fat Girl

2001

As Fernando's Mother

Theorem

1968

As Emilia, the Servant

Un eroe borghese

1995

As Dottoressa Trebbi

Red Lips

1960

As The Painter

The Carpathian Mushroom

1990

As Olympia

In the Name of the Father

1971

As Franco's Mother

Einzelzimmer

1979

As Calogera

Happiness Costs Nothing

2003

As Suora guardiana

A Bay of Blood

1971

As Anna Fossati

Mother Ebe

1985

As Lidia Corradi

The Woman with Red Boots

1974

As Léonore

Jane B. for Agnès V.

1988

As Lardy

1900

1976

As Regina

The Gang

1977

As Felicia

Ro.Go.Pa.G.

1963

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

The Night of Varennes

1982

As Virginia Capacelli

La Ribelle

1993

As Sister Valida

I cammelli

1988

As Milena

Slap the Monster on Page One

1972

As Rita Zigai

Escape by Night

1960

As Teresa

The Murri Affair

1974

As Tisa Borghi

Caprice Italian Style

1968

As Desdemona

Butterfly on the Shoulder

1978

As Mme Carrabo

Renzo e Lucia

2004

As Madre Superiora

Widow's Walk

1987

As Keli

Oedipus Rex

1967

As Jocasta's Maid (uncredited)

Suffocating Heat

1991

As Laura

Sonny and Jed

1972

As Betty

Woman Buried Alive

1973

As Giovanna la Pazza

Marx Can Wait

2021

As Irina (archive footage) (uncredited)

A Man Called Sledge

1970

As Sister

La Dolce Vita

1960

As Laura

Raul - Right to Kill

2005

As Usuraia

The Witches

1967

As Male Tourist

The Great Pumpkin

1993

As Aida

With Closed Eyes

1994

As Beatrice

La Rabbia di Pasolini

2008

As Self (archive footage)

RARA

1969

As

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