Laura Betti
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.
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Fotos
Películas (85)
Marx Can Wait
2021 · Irina (archive footage) (uncredited)
Maresco / Pasolini
2021 · Self
Laura's Passion
2011 · Self (archive footage)
The Beaches of Agnès
2008 · Self (archive footage)
Pasolini and the Secret Humiliation of Chaucer
2006 · Interviewee
Fratella e Sorello
2005 · Presidente Del Tribunale
Raul - Right to Kill
2005 · Usuraia
Renzo e Lucia
2004 · Madre Superiora
Household Accounts
2003 · Contessa Celi Sanguineti
Happiness Costs Nothing
2003 · Suora guardiana
Gli astronomi
2003 · Pavoncella
Il diario di Matilde Manzoni
2002 · Teresa Manzoni Borri
Pier Paolo Pasolini and the Reason of a Dream
2002 · Director
Fat Girl
2001 · Fernando's Mother
Pasolini, el poeta en la playa
2000 · Herself
Film
2000 · Writer
The Protagonists
1999 · Judge
Marianna Ucrìa
1997 · Giuseppa
We Free Kings
1996 · Una delle ragazze del coro
Un eroe borghese
1995 · dott.ssa Trebbi
With Closed Eyes
1994 · Beatrice
Mario, Maria and Mario
1993 · Laura
La ribelle
1993 · Sister Valida
The Great Pumpkin
1993 · Aida
Suffocating Heat
1991 · Laura
Gallant Ladies
1990 · Catherine de Medicis
The Carpathian Mushroom
1990 · Olympia
Le rose blu
1990 · La donna con la rosa blu
I cammelli
1988 · Milena
Jane B. by Agnès V.
1988 · Lardy
Widow's Walk
1987 · Keli
Jenatsch
1987 · Mademoiselle von Planta
Sweets from a Stranger
1987 · Jolanda
Blame it on Paradise
1985 · direttrice
Mother Ebe
1985 · Lidia Corradi
Class Relations
1984 · Brunelda
The Defective Detective
1984 · Carlotta Batticelli
Art of Love
1983 · Clio
Venise en hiver
1982 · Mme Poli
That Night of Varennes
1982 · Virginia Capacelli
Far from Manhattan
1982 · Madame Hanska
Whoever Says the Truth Shall Die
1981 · Self
My Name Is Anna Magnani
1980 · Self
The Little Archimedes
1980 · La signora Bondi
Einzelzimmer
1979 · Calogera
Lovers and Liars
1979 · Laura
Butterfly on the Shoulder
1978 · Mme Carrabo
At Night All Cats Are Crazy
1977 · Jacqueline
The Seagull
1977 · Irina
The Gang
1977 · Felicia
1900
1976 · Regina
Private Vices, Public Virtues
1976 · Teresa
Pier Paolo Pasolini : vivre et encore plus
1976 · Elle-même
Il silenzio è complicità
1976 · Director
ABCinema
1975 · Self
The Last Day of School Before Christmas
1975 · Passenger coach
The Woman with Red Boots
1974 · Léonore
The Murri Affair
1974 · Tisa Borghi
Allonsanfan
1974 · Esther Imbriani
The Cousin
1974 · Rosalia Scuderi
The Return
1973 · Clara
Woman Buried Alive
1973 · Giovanna la Pazza
Slap the Monster on Page One
1972 · Rita Zigai
The Canterbury Tales
1972 · The Wife from Bath
Sonny and Jed
1972 · Betty
In the Name of the Father
1971 · Franco's Mother
A Bay of Blood
1971 · Anna Fossati, Additional Writing
A Man Called Sledge
1970 · Sister
Stop the World... I Want to Get Off!
1970 · Writer
Hatchet for the Honeymoon
1970 · Mildred Harrington, Screenplay
Paulina Is Leaving
1969 · Hortense
RARA
1969
Theorem
1968 · Emilia, the Servant
Caprice Italian Style
1968 · Desdemona
What Are the Clouds?
1968 · Desdemona
Oedipus Rex
1967 · Jocasta's Maid (uncredited)
The Witches
1967 · Male Tourist (segment "La Terra vista dalla Luna")
The Earth As Seen from the Moon
1967 · un turista
Ecco
1963 · Self
La ricotta
1963
Ro.Go.Pa.G.
1963 · Sonia, the 'Diva' (segment "La ricotta")
Escape by Night
1960 · Teresa
Red Lips
1960 · The Painter
La Dolce Vita
1960 · Laura
Noi siamo le colonne
1956 · La cantante annoiata (no acreditado)
