Laura Betti

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Female

Birthday

1927-05-01 (77 years old)

Deathday

2004-07-31

Place of Birth

Casalecchio di Reno, Emilia-Romagna, Italy

Laura Betti

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 fo...

Acting

2001

Fat Girl

as Fernando's Mother

1976

1900

as Regina

2003

Happiness Costs Nothing

as Suora guardiana

1968

Theorem

as Emilia, the Servant

1971

A Bay of Blood

as Anna Fossati

1972

The Canterbury Tales

as The Wife from Bath

2005

1970

Hatchet for the Honeymoon

as Mildred Harrington

1982

The Night of Varennes

as Virginia Capacelli

1982

Far from Manhattan

as Madame Hanska

1985

Mother Ebe

as Lidia Corradi

1974

Allonsanfan

as Esther Imbriani

1969

1978

1985

1960

1979

1997

Marianna Ucrìa

as Giuseppa

1977

The Gang

as Felicia

1993

La ribelle

as Sister Valida

1968

Orgy

as Donna

2005

Fratella e Sorello

as Presidente Del Tribunale

1996

We Free Kings

as Una delle ragazze del coro

1987

1967

The Witches

as Male Tourist (segment "La Terra vista dalla Luna")

1991

1988

I cammelli

as Milena

1967

Oedipus Rex

as Jocasta's Maid (uncredited)

1968

1977

The Seagull

as Irina

2021

Marx Can Wait

as Irina (archive footage) (uncredited)

2008

La Rabbia di Pasolini

as Self (archive footage)

1990

Le rose blu

as La donna con la rosa blu

1984

Class Relations

as Brunelda

2004

Renzo e Lucia

as Madre Superiora

1995

Un eroe borghese

as Dottoressa Trebbi

1999

1984

The Defective Detective

as Carlotta Batticelli

1960

Red Lips

as The Painter

1990

Gallant Ladies

as Catherine de Medicis

1973

The Return

as Clara

2011

Laura's Passion

as Self (archive footage)

2008

The Beaches of Agnès

as Self (archive footage)

2003

Gli astronomi

as Pavoncella

1983

1994

With Closed Eyes

as Beatrice

1971

In the Name of the Father

as Franco's Mother

1974

The Murri Affair

as Tisa Borghi

1979

Einzelzimmer

as Calogera

1963

Ro.Go.Pa.G.

as Sonia, the 'Diva' (segment "La ricotta")

1968

1963

Ecco

as Self

1974

The Cousin

as Rosalia Scuderi

1970

1980

The Little Archimedes

as La signora Bondi

2003

Household Accounts

as Contessa Celi Sanguineti

1960

1973

Woman Buried Alive

as Giovanna la Pazza

1972

1969

2002

Il diario di Matilde Manzoni

as Teresa Manzoni Borri

1975

Abicinema

as Self

1987

Jenatsch

as Mademoiselle von Planta

1956

Noi siamo le colonne

as La cantante annoiata (no acreditado)

1982

Venise en hiver

as Mme Poli

Production

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