Laura Betti

Personal Info

Known For Actor

Gender Female

Birthday 1927-05-01

Deathday 2004-07-31 (77 years old)

Place of Birth Casalecchio di Reno, Emilia-Romagna, Italy

Also Known As ラウラ・ベッティ, Laura Trombetti

Laura Betti

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

Actor

2021
Marx Can Wait

as Irina (archive footage) (uncredited)

2021
2011
Laura's Passion

as Self (archive footage)

2008
The Beaches of Agnès

as Self (archive footage)

2008
La Rabbia di Pasolini

as Self (archive footage)

2005
Fratella e sorello

as Presidente del Tribunale

2005
2004
Renzo e Lucia

as Madre Superiora

2003
Happiness Costs Nothing

as Suora guardiana

2003
Gli astronomi

as Pavoncella

2002
Il diario di Matilde Manzoni

as Teresa Manzoni Borri

2001
Fat Girl

as Fernando's Mother

1999
1997
Marianna Ucrìa

as Giuseppa

1996
We Free Kings

as Una delle ragazze del coro

1995
Un eroe borghese

as Dottoressa Trebbi

1994
With Closed Eyes

as Beatrice

1993
La Ribelle

as Sister Valida

1993
1991
1990
Gallant Ladies

as Catherine de Medicis

1990
Le rose blu

as La donna con la rosa blu

1988
I cammelli

as Milena

1987
Widow's Walk

as Keli

1987
Jenatsch

as Mademoiselle von Planta

1987
1985
Blame it on Paradise

as direttrice

1985
Mother Ebe

as Lidia Corradi

1984
The Defective Detective

as Carlotta Batticelli

1984
Class Relations

as Brunelda

1983
1982
The Night of Varennes

as Virginia Capacelli

1982
Far from Manhattan

as Madame Hanska

1982
The Charterhouse of Parma

as The Vivandière

1979
The Little Archimedes

as La signora Bondi

1979
Einzelzimmer

as Calogera

1979
1978
1978
The Word

as Maria

1977
1977
The Seagull

as Irina

1977
The Gang

as Felicia

1976
1900

as Regina

1975
Abicinema

as Self

1974
1974
The Murri Affair

as Tisa Borghi

1974
Allonsanfan

as Esther Imbriani

1974
The Cousin

as Rosalia Scuderi

1973
The Return

as Clara

1973
Woman Buried Alive

as Giovanna la Pazza

1972
The Canterbury Tales

as The Wife from Bath

1972
Sonny and Jed

as Betty

1971
In the Name of the Father

as Franco's Mother

1971
A Bay of Blood

as Anna Fossati

1970
1970
Hatchet for the Honeymoon

as Mildred Harrington

1969
Paulina Is Leaving

as Hortense

1969
1968
Orgy

as Donna

1968
Theorem

as Emilia, the Servant

1968
1968
1967
Oedipus Rex

as Jocasta's Maid (uncredited)

1967
The Witches

as Male Tourist (segment "La Terra vista dalla Luna")

1963
Ecco

as Self

1963
Ro.Go.Pa.G.

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

1960
Escape by Night

as Teresa

1960
Red Lips

as The Painter

1960
La Dolce Vita

as Laura

1959
Discorama

as Self

Writer

2000
Film

as Writer

1970

Crew

1971
A Bay of Blood

as Additional Writing