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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Les Plages d'Agnès | Self (archive footage) | 2008-12-17 |
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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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Gli astronomi | Pavoncella | 2003-01-01 |
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Il quaderno della spesa | Contessa Celi Sanguineti | 2003-03-07 |
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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 sœur ! | Fernando's Mother | 2001-03-07 |
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Pasolini, el poeta en la playa | Herself | 2000-11-30 |
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The Protagonists | Judge | 1999-09-10 |
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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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Il Grande Cocomero | Aida | 1993-02-10 |
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Mario, Maria e Mario | Laura | 1993-12-05 |
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La ribelle | Sister Valida | 1993-08-20 |
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Caldo soffocante | Laura | 1991-08-26 |
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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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Le Champignon des Carpathes | Olympia | 1990-03-07 |
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I cammelli | Milena | 1988-09-19 |
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Jane B. par Agnès V. | Lardy | 1988-03-02 |
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Jenatsch | Mademoiselle von Planta | 1987-06-01 |
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Caramelle da uno sconosciuto | Jolanda | 1987-04-24 |
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Noyade interdite | Keli | 1987-12-02 |
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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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Retenez-moi... ou je fais un malheur ! | Carlotta Batticelli | 1984-10-31 |
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Ars amandi | Clio | 1983-12-07 |
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Venise en hiver | Mme Poli | 1982-10-22 |
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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 | 1980-03-07 |
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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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Le Gang | Felicia | 1977-01-19 |
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Il gabbiano | Irina | 1977-07-02 |
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La nuit, tous les chats sont gris | Jacqueline | 1977-11-23 |
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Novecento | Regina | 1976-08-28 |
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Vizi privati, pubbliche virtù | Teresa | 1976-05-06 |
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Pier Paolo Pasolini : vivre et encore plus | Elle-même | 1976-02-03 |
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L'ultimo giorno di scuola prima delle vacanze di Natale | Passenger coach | 1975-03-20 |
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Abicinema | Self | 1975-08-09 |
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Fatti di gente perbene | Tisa Borghi | 1974-09-28 |
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La cugina | Rosalia Scuderi | 1974-07-26 |
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Allonsanfàn | Esther Imbriani | 1974-09-06 |
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La Femme aux bottes rouges | Léonore | 1974-12-11 |
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Ritorno | Clara | 1973-09-30 |
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Sepolta viva | Giovanna la Pazza | 1973-01-01 |
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I racconti di Canterbury | The Wife from Bath | 1972-09-02 |
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La banda J. & S. Cronaca criminale del Far West | Betty | 1972-08-11 |
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Sbatti il mostro in prima pagina | Rita Zigai | 1972-10-19 |
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Nel nome del padre | Franco's Mother | 1971-10-12 |
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Ecologia del delitto | Anna Fossati | 1971-09-08 |
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Fermate il mondo... voglio scendere! | 1970-10-08 | |
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Il rosso segno della follia | Mildred Harrington | 1970-06-02 |
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A Man Called Sledge | Sister | 1970-11-14 |
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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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Che cosa sono le nuvole | Desdemona | 1968-04-12 |
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Teorema | Emilia, the Servant | 1968-09-07 |
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Capriccio all'italiana | Desdemona | 1968-04-13 |
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Edipo re | Jocasta's Maid (uncredited) | 1967-09-07 |
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Le streghe | Male Tourist (segment "La Terra vista dalla Luna") | 1967-02-22 |
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La Terra vista dalla Luna | un turista | 1967-02-22 |
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Il mondo di notte numero 3 | Self | 1963-11-15 |
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Ro.Go.Pa.G. | Sonia, the 'Diva' (segment "La ricotta") | 1963-02-19 |
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La dolce vita | Laura | 1960-02-05 |
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Era notte a Roma | Teresa | 1960-07-31 |
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Labbra rosse | The Painter | 1960-05-14 |
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Noi siamo le colonne | La cantante annoiata (no acreditado) | 1956-12-29 |
