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