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
Most Rating	0.3732
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,

Fat Girl

1900

Happiness Costs Nothing

Theorem

A Bay of Blood

The Canterbury Tales

Raul - Right to Kill

Hatchet for the Honeymoon

That Night of Varennes

Far from Manhattan

Mother Ebe

Private Vices, Public Virtues

At Night All Cats Are Crazy

Allonsanfan

Paulina Is Leaving

The Great Pumpkin

Butterfly on the Shoulder

Blame it on Paradise

Mario, Maria and Mario

Escape by Night

Lovers and Liars

Marianna Ucrìa

The Woman with Red Boots

The Gang

La ribelle

Orgy

Fratella e Sorello

We Free Kings

Widow's Walk

The Witches

Suffocating Heat

I cammelli

Oedipus Rex

Caprice Italian Style

Pier Paolo Pasolini : vivre et encore plus

The Seagull

Marx Can Wait

Whoever Says the Truth Shall Die

Le rose blu

Class Relations

Renzo e Lucia

Un eroe borghese

The Protagonists

Stop the World... I Want to Get Off!

Jane B. by Agnès V.

The Defective Detective

Red Lips

Gallant Ladies

The Carpathian Mushroom

The Return

Laura's Passion

The Beaches of Agnès

Gli astronomi

Art of Love

Pasolini and the Secret Humiliation of Chaucer

With Closed Eyes

Sweets from a Stranger

In the Name of the Father

The Murri Affair

My Name Is Anna Magnani

Slap the Monster on Page One

Einzelzimmer

The Earth As Seen from the Moon

Ro.Go.Pa.G.

What Are the Clouds?

Ecco

Pasolini, el poeta en la playa

The Cousin

A Man Called Sledge

The Little Archimedes

Household Accounts

La Dolce Vita

Woman Buried Alive

Sonny and Jed

RARA

Il diario di Matilde Manzoni

Abicinema

Maresco / Pasolini

Jenatsch

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