1927-05-01 Casalecchio di Reno, Emilia-Romagna, Italy
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.
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Marx può aspettare | Irina (archive footage) (uncredited) | 2021-07-15 |
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Maresco / Pasolini | Self | 2021-05-05 |
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La passione di Laura | Self (archive footage) | 2011-10-29 |
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La Rabbia di Pasolini | Self (archive footage) | 2008-09-05 |
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Pasolini e l'umiliazione segreta di Chaucer | Interviewee | 2006-06-30 |
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Raul - Diritto di uccidere | Usuraia | 2005-04-15 |
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Fratella e sorello | Presidente del Tribunale | 2005-06-01 |
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Renzo e Lucia | Madre Superiora | 2004-01-13 |
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Il quaderno della spesa | 2003-03-07 | |
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Gli astronomi | Pavoncella | 2003-01-01 |
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La felicità non costa niente | Suora guardiana | 2003-01-31 |
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Il diario di Matilde Manzoni | Teresa Manzoni Borri | 2002-09-27 |
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À ma soeur! | Fernando's Mother | 2001-03-07 |
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Pasolini, el poeta en la playa | Herself | 2000-11-30 |
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Marianna Ucrìa | Giuseppa | 1997-08-13 |
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I magi randagi | Una delle ragazze del coro | 1996-12-20 |
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Un eroe borghese | Dottoressa Trebbi | 1995-03-03 |
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Con gli occhi chiusi | Beatrice | 1994-11-22 |
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La Ribelle | Sister Valida | 1993-08-20 |
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Mario, Maria e Mario | Laura | 1993-12-05 |
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Il Grande Cocomero | Aida | 1993-02-10 |
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Caldo soffocante | Laura | 1991-08-26 |
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Le Champignon des Carpathes | Olympia | 1990-03-07 |
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Dames galantes | Catherine de Medicis | 1990-11-14 |
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Le rose blu | La donna con la rosa blu | 1990-02-01 |
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Jane B. par Agnès V. | Lardy | 1988-03-02 |
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I cammelli | Milena | 1988-09-19 |
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Jenatsch | Mademoiselle von Planta | 1987-06-01 |
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Noyade interdite | Keli | 1987-12-02 |
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Caramelle da uno sconosciuto | Jolanda | 1987-04-24 |
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Tutta colpa del paradiso | direttrice | 1985-12-19 |
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Mamma Ebe | Lidia Corradi | 1985-04-08 |
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Klassenverhältnisse | Brunelda | 1984-02-21 |
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Ars amandi | Clio | 1983-12-07 |
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Loin de Manhattan | Madame Hanska | 1982-01-27 |
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La Nuit de Varennes | Virginia Capacelli | 1982-05-15 |
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Wie de Waarheid Zegt Moet Dood | Self | 1981-02-28 |
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Io sono Anna Magnani | Self | 1980-09-30 |
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Il piccolo Archimede | La signora Bondi | 1979-05-30 |
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Einzelzimmer | Calogera | 1979-05-13 |
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Viaggio con Anita | Laura | 1979-01-05 |
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Un papillon sur l'épaule | Mme Carrabo | 1978-05-03 |
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Il gabbiano | Irina | 1977-07-02 |
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Le Gang | Felicia | 1977-01-19 |
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La nuit, tous les chats sont gris | Jacqueline | 1977-11-23 |
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Pier Paolo Pasolini : vivre et encore plus | Elle-même | 1976-02-03 |
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Vizi privati, pubbliche virtù | Teresa | 1976-05-06 |
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Novecento | Regina | 1976-08-28 |
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Abicinema | Self | 1975-08-09 |
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Allonsanfàn | Esther Imbriani | 1974-09-06 |
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La cugina | Rosalia Scuderi | 1974-07-26 |
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Fatti di gente perbene | Tisa Borghi | 1974-09-28 |
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La Femme aux bottes rouges | Léonore | 1974-12-11 |
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Sepolta viva | Giovanna la Pazza | 1973-01-01 |
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Ritorno | Clara | 1973-09-30 |
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Sbatti il mostro in prima pagina | Rita Zigai | 1972-10-19 |
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La banda J. & S. Cronaca criminale del Far West | Betty | 1972-08-11 |
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I racconti di Canterbury | The Wife from Bath | 1972-09-02 |
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Ecologia del delitto | Anna Fossati | 1971-09-08 |
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Nel nome del padre | Franco's Mother | 1971-10-12 |
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A Man Called Sledge | Sister | 1970-11-14 |
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Il rosso segno della follia | Mildred Harrington | 1970-06-02 |
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Fermate il mondo... voglio scendere! | 1970-10-08 | |
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Paulina s'en va | Hortense | 1969-09-01 |
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RARA | 1969-05-30 | |
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Orgia | Donna | 1968-11-27 |
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Teorema | Emilia, the Servant | 1968-09-07 |
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Che cosa sono le nuvole? | Desdemona | 1968-04-12 |
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Capriccio all'italiana | Desdemona | 1968-04-13 |
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La Terra vista dalla Luna | un turista | 1967-02-22 |
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Le streghe | Male Tourist (segment "La Terra vista dalla Luna") | 1967-02-22 |
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Edipo re | Jocasta's Maid (uncredited) | 1967-09-07 |
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Ro.Go.Pa.G. | Sonia, the 'Diva' (segment "La ricotta") | 1963-02-19 |
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Il mondo di notte numero 3 | Self | 1963-11-15 |
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Era notte a Roma | Teresa | 1960-10-07 |
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Labbra rosse | The Painter | 1960-05-14 |
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La dolce vita | Laura | 1960-02-05 |
