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Laura Betti‌

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Birthday

calendar1927-05-01

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Laura Betti

Casalecchio di Reno, Emilia-Romagna, Italy

Laura Betti

Casalecchio di Reno, Emilia-Romagna, Italy

Gender

Female

Birthday

calendar1927-05-01

Popularity

star4.1

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.

Movie Credits

Fat Girl

Fat Girl‌
star6.1
calendar 2001

1900

1900‌
star7.8
calendar 1976

Happiness Costs Nothing

Happiness Costs Nothing‌
star3.6
calendar 2003

Theorem

Theorem‌
star7.1
calendar 1968

A Bay of Blood

A Bay of Blood‌
star6.6
calendar 1971

The Canterbury Tales

The Canterbury Tales‌
star6.2
calendar 1972

Raul - Right to Kill

Raul - Right to Kill‌
star0.0
calendar 2005

Hatchet for the Honeymoon

Hatchet for the Honeymoon‌
star6.5
calendar 1970

The Night of Varennes

The Night of Varennes‌
star6.8
calendar 1982

Far from Manhattan

Far from Manhattan‌
star7.6
calendar 1982

Mother Ebe

Mother Ebe‌
star4.6
calendar 1985

Private Vices, Public Virtues

Private Vices, Public Virtues‌
star5.3
calendar 1976

At Night All Cats Are Crazy

At Night All Cats Are Crazy‌
star5.5
calendar 1977

Allonsanfan

Allonsanfan‌
star6.7
calendar 1974

Paulina Is Leaving

Paulina Is Leaving‌
star2.5
calendar 1969

The Great Pumpkin

The Great Pumpkin‌
star6.7
calendar 1993

Butterfly on the Shoulder

Butterfly on the Shoulder‌
star6.0
calendar 1978

Blame it on Paradise

Blame it on Paradise‌
star6.5
calendar 1985

Mario, Maria and Mario

Mario, Maria and Mario‌
star5.8
calendar 1993

Escape by Night

Escape by Night‌
star6.8
calendar 1960

Lovers and Liars

Lovers and Liars‌
star4.4
calendar 1979

Marianna Ucrìa

Marianna Ucrìa‌
star6.5
calendar 1997

The Woman with Red Boots

The Woman with Red Boots‌
star5.7
calendar 1974

The Gang

The Gang‌
star6.2
calendar 1977

La Ribelle

La Ribelle‌
star5.1
calendar 1993

Orgy

Orgy‌
star0.0
calendar 1968

Fratella e sorello

Fratella e sorello‌
star0.0
calendar 2005

We Free Kings

We Free Kings‌
star6.0
calendar 1996

Widow's Walk

Widow's Walk‌
star5.3
calendar 1987

The Witches

The Witches‌
star6.1
calendar 1967

Suffocating Heat

Suffocating Heat‌
star0.0
calendar 1991

I cammelli

I cammelli‌
star5.8
calendar 1988

Oedipus Rex

Oedipus Rex‌
star6.8
calendar 1967

Caprice Italian Style

Caprice Italian Style‌
star6.2
calendar 1968

Pier Paolo Pasolini : vivre et encore plus

Pier Paolo Pasolini : vivre et encore plus‌
star0.0
calendar 1976

The Seagull

The Seagull‌
star6.0
calendar 1977

Marx Can Wait

Marx Can Wait‌
star7.5
calendar 2021

Whoever Says the Truth Shall Die

Whoever Says the Truth Shall Die‌
star5.4
calendar 1981

La Rabbia di Pasolini

La Rabbia di Pasolini‌
star7.2
calendar 2008

Le rose blu

Le rose blu‌
star0.0
calendar 1990

Class Relations

Class Relations‌
star6.8
calendar 1984

Renzo e Lucia

Renzo e Lucia‌
star0.0
calendar 2004

Un eroe borghese

Un eroe borghese‌
star6.6
calendar 1995

The Protagonists

The Protagonists‌
star5.1
calendar 1999

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

Stop the World... I Want to Get Off!‌
star5.5
calendar 1970

Jane B. for Agnès V.

Jane B. for Agnès V.‌
star6.7
calendar 1988

The Defective Detective

The Defective Detective‌
star7.5
calendar 1984

Red Lips

Red Lips‌
star0.0
calendar 1960

Gallant Ladies

Gallant Ladies‌
star3.3
calendar 1990

The Carpathian Mushroom

The Carpathian Mushroom‌
star5.2
calendar 1990

The Return

The Return‌
star0.0
calendar 1973

Laura's Passion

Laura's Passion‌
star0.0
calendar 2011

The Beaches of Agnès

The Beaches of Agnès‌
star7.7
calendar 2008

Gli astronomi

Gli astronomi‌
star0.0
calendar 2003

The Art of Love

The Art of Love‌
star4.8
calendar 1983

Pasolini and the Secret Humiliation of Chaucer

Pasolini and the Secret Humiliation of Chaucer‌
star0.0
calendar 2006

With Closed Eyes

With Closed Eyes‌
star5.9
calendar 1994

Sweets from a Stranger

Sweets from a Stranger‌
star5.3
calendar 1987

In the Name of the Father

In the Name of the Father‌
star6.5
calendar 1971

The Murri Affair

The Murri Affair‌
star6.6
calendar 1974

My Name Is Anna Magnani

My Name Is Anna Magnani‌
star8.0
calendar 1980

Slap the Monster on Page One

Slap the Monster on Page One‌
star7.6
calendar 1972

Einzelzimmer

Einzelzimmer‌
star0.0
calendar 1979

The Earth As Seen from the Moon

The Earth As Seen from the Moon‌
star8.2
calendar 1967

Ro.Go.Pa.G.

Ro.Go.Pa.G.‌
star7.2
calendar 1963

What Are the Clouds?

What Are the Clouds?‌
star8.6
calendar 1968

Ecco

Ecco‌
star5.0
calendar 1963

Pasolini, el poeta en la playa

Pasolini, el poeta en la playa‌
star5.7
calendar 2000

The Cousin

The Cousin‌
star5.4
calendar 1974

A Man Called Sledge

A Man Called Sledge‌
star6.1
calendar 1970

The Little Archimedes

The Little Archimedes‌
star7.0
calendar 1979

Household Accounts

Household Accounts‌
star0.0
calendar 2003

La Dolce Vita

La Dolce Vita‌
star8.1
calendar 1960

Woman Buried Alive

Woman Buried Alive‌
star3.0
calendar 1973

Sonny and Jed

Sonny and Jed‌
star6.0
calendar 1972

RARA

RARA‌
star4.5
calendar 1969

Il diario di Matilde Manzoni

Il diario di Matilde Manzoni‌
star0.0
calendar 2002

Abicinema

Abicinema‌
star6.0
calendar 1975

Maresco / Pasolini

Maresco / Pasolini‌
star0.0
calendar 2021

Jenatsch

Jenatsch‌
star5.5
calendar 1987

Noi siamo le colonne

Noi siamo le colonne‌
star0.0
calendar 1956

Tv Credits

The Word

The Word‌
star5.0
calendar 1978

The Charterhouse of Parma

The Charterhouse of Parma‌
star10.0
calendar 1982

Discorama

Discorama‌
star0.0
calendar 1959