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.
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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Filmography (Movies)
Marx Can Wait
Character:Irina (archive footage) (uncredited)
Release Date:15/07/2021
Maresco / Pasolini
Character:Self
Release Date:05/05/2021
Laura's Passion
Character:Self (archive footage)
Release Date:29/10/2011
The Beaches of Agnès
Character:Self (archive footage)
Release Date:17/12/2008
Pasolini and the Secret Humiliation of Chaucer
Character:Interviewee
Release Date:30/06/2006
Fratella e Sorello
Character:Presidente Del Tribunale
Release Date:01/06/2005
Raul - Right to Kill
Character:Usuraia
Release Date:15/04/2005
Renzo e Lucia
Character:Madre Superiora
Release Date:13/01/2004
Household Accounts
Character:Contessa Celi Sanguineti
Release Date:07/03/2003
Happiness Costs Nothing
Character:Suora guardiana
Release Date:31/01/2003
Gli astronomi
Character:Pavoncella
Release Date:01/01/2003
Il diario di Matilde Manzoni
Character:Teresa Manzoni Borri
Release Date:27/09/2002
Fat Girl
Character:Fernando's Mother
Release Date:07/03/2001
Pasolini, el poeta en la playa
Character:Herself
Release Date:30/11/2000
The Protagonists
Character:Judge
Release Date:10/09/1999
Marianna Ucrìa
Character:Giuseppa
Release Date:13/08/1997
We Free Kings
Character:Una delle ragazze del coro
Release Date:20/12/1996
Un eroe borghese
Character:Dottoressa Trebbi
Release Date:03/03/1995
With Closed Eyes
Character:Beatrice
Release Date:22/11/1994
Mario, Maria and Mario
Character:Laura
Release Date:05/12/1993
La ribelle
Character:Sister Valida
Release Date:20/08/1993
The Great Pumpkin
Character:Aida
Release Date:10/02/1993
Suffocating Heat
Character:Laura
Release Date:26/08/1991
Gallant Ladies
Character:Catherine de Medicis
Release Date:14/11/1990
The Carpathian Mushroom
Character:Olympia
Release Date:07/03/1990
Le rose blu
Character:La donna con la rosa blu
Release Date:01/02/1990
I cammelli
Character:Milena
Release Date:19/09/1988
Jane B. by Agnès V.
Character:Lardy
Release Date:02/03/1988
Widow's Walk
Character:Keli
Release Date:02/12/1987
Jenatsch
Character:Mademoiselle von Planta
Release Date:01/06/1987
Sweets from a Stranger
Character:Jolanda
Release Date:24/04/1987
Blame it on Paradise
Character:direttrice
Release Date:19/12/1985
Mother Ebe
Character:Lidia Corradi
Release Date:08/04/1985
The Defective Detective
Character:Carlotta Batticelli
Release Date:31/10/1984
Class Relations
Character:Brunelda
Release Date:21/02/1984
Art of Love
Character:Clio
Release Date:07/12/1983
Venise en hiver
Character:Mme Poli
Release Date:22/10/1982
The Night of Varennes
Character:Virginia Capacelli
Release Date:15/05/1982
Far from Manhattan
Character:Madame Hanska
Release Date:27/01/1982
Whoever Says the Truth Shall Die
Character:Self
Release Date:28/02/1981
My Name Is Anna Magnani
Character:Self
Release Date:30/09/1980
The Little Archimedes
Character:La signora Bondi
Release Date:07/03/1980
Einzelzimmer
Character:Calogera
Release Date:13/05/1979
Lovers and Liars
Character:Laura
Release Date:05/01/1979
Butterfly on the Shoulder
Character:Mme Carrabo
Release Date:03/05/1978
At Night All Cats Are Crazy
Character:Jacqueline
Release Date:23/11/1977
The Seagull
Character:Irina
Release Date:02/07/1977
The Gang
Character:Felicia
Release Date:19/01/1977
1900
Character:Regina
Release Date:28/08/1976
Private Vices, Public Virtues
Character:Teresa
Release Date:06/05/1976
Pier Paolo Pasolini : vivre et encore plus
Character:Elle-même
Release Date:03/02/1976
Abicinema
Character:Self
Release Date:09/08/1975
The Last Day of School Before Christmas
Character:Passenger coach
Release Date:20/03/1975
The Woman with Red Boots
Character:Léonore
Release Date:11/12/1974
The Murri Affair
Character:Tisa Borghi
Release Date:28/09/1974
Allonsanfan
Character:Esther Imbriani
Release Date:06/09/1974
The Cousin
Character:Rosalia Scuderi
Release Date:26/07/1974
The Return
Character:Clara
Release Date:30/09/1973
Woman Buried Alive
Character:Giovanna la Pazza
Release Date:01/01/1973
Slap the Monster on Page One
Character:Rita Zigai
Release Date:19/10/1972
The Canterbury Tales
Character:The Wife from Bath
Release Date:02/09/1972
Sonny and Jed
Character:Betty
Release Date:11/08/1972
In the Name of the Father
Character:Franco's Mother
Release Date:12/10/1971
A Bay of Blood
Character:Anna Fossati
Release Date:08/09/1971
A Man Called Sledge
Character:Sister
Release Date:14/11/1970
Stop the World... I Want to Get Off!
Character:
Release Date:08/10/1970
Hatchet for the Honeymoon
Character:Mildred Harrington
Release Date:02/06/1970
Paulina Is Leaving
Character:Hortense
Release Date:01/09/1969
RARA
Character:
Release Date:30/05/1969
Orgy
Character:Donna
Release Date:27/11/1968
Theorem
Character:Emilia, the Servant
Release Date:07/09/1968
Caprice Italian Style
Character:Desdemona
Release Date:13/04/1968
What Are the Clouds?
Character:Desdemona
Release Date:12/04/1968
Oedipus Rex
Character:Jocasta's Maid (uncredited)
Release Date:07/09/1967
The Witches
Character:Male Tourist (segment "La Terra vista dalla Luna")
Release Date:22/02/1967
The Earth As Seen from the Moon
Character:un turista
Release Date:22/02/1967
Ecco
Character:Self
Release Date:15/11/1963
Ro.Go.Pa.G.
Character:Sonia, the 'Diva' (segment "La ricotta")
Release Date:19/02/1963
Escape by Night
Character:Teresa
Release Date:31/07/1960
Red Lips
Character:The Painter
Release Date:14/05/1960
La Dolce Vita
Character:Laura
Release Date:05/02/1960
Noi siamo le colonne
Character:La cantante annoiata (no acreditado)
Release Date:29/12/1956
Television Appearances
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