Biography
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
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Movies 83
self 10
TV Shows 3
Director 2
Writer 2
Marx Can Wait (2021)
Maresco / Pasolini (2021)
Laura's Passion (2011)
La Rabbia di Pasolini (2008)
Pasolini and the Secret Humiliation of Chaucer (2006)
Fratella e sorello (2005)
Raul - Right to Kill (2005)
The Lost Body of Alibech (2005)
Renzo e Lucia (2004)
Household Accounts (2003)
Happiness Costs Nothing (2003)
Gli astronomi (2003)
Il diario di Matilde Manzoni (2002)
Pier Paolo Pasolini and the Reason of a Dream (2002)
Fat Girl (2001)
Pasolini, el poeta en la playa (2000)
Film di Laura Belli (1999)
Una disperata vitalità (1998)
Marianna Ucrìa (1997)
We Free Kings (1996)
Un eroe borghese (1995)
With Closed Eyes (1994)
Mario, Maria and Mario (1993)
La Ribelle (1993)
The Great Pumpkin (1993)
Suffocating Heat (1991)
Gallant Ladies (1990)
The Carpathian Mushroom (1990)
Le rose blu (1990)
I cammelli (1988)
Jane B. for Agnès V. (1988)
Widow's Walk (1987)
Jenatsch (1987)
Sweets from a Stranger (1987)
Blame it on Paradise (1985)
Mother Ebe (1985)
Class Relations (1984)
The Art of Love (1983)
The Charterhouse of Parma (1982)
The Night of Varennes (1982)
Loin de Manhattan (1982)
Whoever Says the Truth Shall Die (1981)
My Name Is Anna Magnani (1980)
The Little Archimedes (1979)
Einzelzimmer (1979)
Lovers and Liars (1979)
The Word (1978)
Butterfly on the Shoulder (1978)
At Night All Cats Are Crazy (1977)
The Seagull (1977)
The Gang (1977)
1900 (1976)
Private Vices, Public Virtues (1976)
Pier Paolo Pasolini : vivre et encore plus (1976)
Il silenzio è complicità (1976)
Abicinema (1975)
The Woman with Red Boots (1974)
The Murri Affair (1974)
Allonsanfan (1974)
The Cousin (1974)
The Return (1973)
Woman Buried Alive (1973)
Slap the Monster on Page One (1972)
The Canterbury Tales (1972)
Sonny and Jed (1972)
In the Name of the Father (1971)
A Bay of Blood (1971)
A Man Called Sledge (1970)
Stop the World... I Want to Get Off! (1970)
Hatchet for the Honeymoon (1970)
Paulina Is Leaving (1969)
RARA (1969)
Orgy (1968)
Theorem (1968)
Caprice Italian Style (1968)
What Are the Clouds? (1968)
Oedipus Rex (1967)
The Witches (1967)
The Earth As Seen from the Moon (1967)
Ecco (1963)
Ro.Go.Pa.G. (1963)
Escape by Night (1960)
Red Lips (1960)
La Dolce Vita (1960)
Discorama (1959)
Venise en hiver
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GenderFemale
Birthday1927-05-01
Deathday2004-07-31 (77 years old)
Birth NameLaura Trombetti
Birth PlaceBologna, Italy
CitizenshipsKingdom of Italy, Italy
Also Known Asラウラ・ベッティ, Laura Trombetti
AwardsVolpi Cup for Best Actress, Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, Silver Shell for Best Actress, Ciak d'oro
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