
Laura Betti
Known for ActingBorn 1927-05-01Died 2004-07-31Casalecchio 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.Read more
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Fratella e Sorello
2005 · Movie
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Household Accounts
2003 · Movie
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Red Lips
1960 · Movie
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Raul - Right to Kill
2005 · Movie
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Renzo e Lucia
2004 · Movie
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Gli astronomi
2003 · Movie
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Film
2000 · Movie
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My Name Is Anna Magnani
1980 · Movie
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The Charterhouse of Parma
1982 · Series
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1968 · Movie
Il diario di Matilde Manzoni
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Il diario di Matilde Manzoni
2002 · Movie
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Suffocating Heat
1991 · Movie
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The Earth As Seen from the Moon
1967 · Movie
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The Little Archimedes
1980 · Movie
Einzelzimmer
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Einzelzimmer
1979 · Movie
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The Beaches of Agnès
2008 · Movie
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The Return
1973 · Movie
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Far from Manhattan
1982 · Movie
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La Dolce Vita
1960 · Movie
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Discorama
1959 · Series
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1900
1976 · Movie
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At Night All Cats Are Crazy
1977 · Movie
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Pier Paolo Pasolini and the Reason of a Dream
2002 · Movie
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Marx Can Wait
2021 · Movie
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1970 · Movie
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Slap the Monster on Page One
1972 · Movie
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With Closed Eyes
1994 · Movie
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The Defective Detective
1984 · Movie
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Le rose blu
1990 · Movie
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Ro.Go.Pa.G.
1963 · Movie
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The Wings of the Dove
1981 · Series
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The Last Day of School Before Christmas
1975 · Movie
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That Night of Varennes
1982 · Movie
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Theorem
1968 · Movie
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Marianna Ucrìa
1997 · Movie
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Class Relations
1984 · Movie
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Un eroe borghese
1995 · Movie
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Escape by Night
1960 · Movie
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The Great Pumpkin
1993 · Movie
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Allonsanfan
1974 · Movie
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Jane B. by Agnès V.
1988 · Movie
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Oedipus Rex
1967 · Movie
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We Free Kings
1996 · Movie
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The Murri Affair
1974 · Movie
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Blame it on Paradise
1985 · Movie
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A Bay of Blood
1971 · Movie
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Fat Girl
2001 · Movie
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In the Name of the Father
1971 · Movie