Laura Betti

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. Source: Article "Laura Betti" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
Known For: Acting
Birthday: 1927-05-01
Place of Birth: Casalecchio di Reno, Emilia-Romagna, Italy
Also Known As: ラウラ・ベッティ, Laura Trombetti

Movies List of Laura Betti

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Fat Girl

2001 Movie
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1900

1976 Movie
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Theorem

1968 Movie
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A Bay of Blood

1971 Movie
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The Canterbury Tales

1972 Movie
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Raul - Right to Kill

2005 Movie
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The Night of Varennes

1982 Movie
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Far from Manhattan

1982 Movie
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Mother Ebe

1985 Movie
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Allonsanfan

1974 Movie
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Paulina Is Leaving

1969 Movie
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The Great Pumpkin

1993 Movie
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Blame it on Paradise

1985 Movie
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Escape by Night

1960 Movie
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Lovers and Liars

1979 Movie
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Marianna Ucrìa

1997 Movie
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The Gang

1977 Movie
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La Ribelle

1993 Movie
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Orgy

1968 Movie
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Fratella e sorello

2005 Movie
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We Free Kings

1996 Movie
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Widow's Walk

1987 Movie
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The Witches

1967 Movie
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Suffocating Heat

1991 Movie
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I cammelli

1988 Movie
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Oedipus Rex

1967 Movie
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Caprice Italian Style

1968 Movie
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The Seagull

1977 Movie
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Marx Can Wait

2021 Movie
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La Rabbia di Pasolini

2008 Movie
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Le rose blu

1990 Movie
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Class Relations

1984 Movie
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Renzo e Lucia

2004 Movie
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Un eroe borghese

1995 Movie
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The Protagonists

1999 Movie
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Jane B. for Agnès V.

1988 Movie
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Red Lips

1960 Movie
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Gallant Ladies

1990 Movie
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The Return

1973 Movie
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Laura's Passion

2011 Movie
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The Beaches of Agnès

2008 Movie
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Gli astronomi

2003 Movie
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The Art of Love

1983 Movie
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With Closed Eyes

1994 Movie
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The Murri Affair

1974 Movie
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Einzelzimmer

1979 Movie
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Ro.Go.Pa.G.

1963 Movie
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What Are the Clouds?

1968 Movie
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Ecco

1963 Movie
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The Cousin

1974 Movie
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A Man Called Sledge

1970 Movie
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The Little Archimedes

1979 Movie
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Household Accounts

2003 Movie
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La Dolce Vita

1960 Movie
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Woman Buried Alive

1973 Movie
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Sonny and Jed

1972 Movie
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RARA

1969 Movie
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Abicinema

1975 Movie
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Maresco / Pasolini

2021 Movie
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Jenatsch

1987 Movie
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Noi siamo le colonne

1956 Movie