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Laura Betti

Laura Betti

  • Schauspiel
  • 1. Mai 1927 – 31. Juli 2004 · im Alter von 77
  • Casalecchio 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.

Bekannt für

  • Serie8.0

    Discorama

    1959 · 1 votes

  • Film8.0

    La dolce vita

    Das süße Leben

    1960 · 2.1K votes

  • Film6.5

    Ecologia del delitto

    Im Blutrausch des Satans

    1971 · 449 votes

  • Film7.0

    Teorema

    Teorema - Geometrie der Liebe

    1968 · 463 votes

  • Film6.0

    Le streghe

    Hexen von heute

    1967 · 79 votes

  • Film6.8

    Edipo re

    Edipo Re - Bett der Gewalt

    1967 · 374 votes

  • Serie4.8

    The Word

    1978 · 5 votes

  • Film6.1

    À ma sœur !

    Meine Schwester - Ihr erstes Mal

    2001 · 264 votes

Filmografie29

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  14. 1978
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  21. 1968
    • Teorema

      Teorema - Geometrie der Liebe

      Film7.0

  22. 1967
  23. 1963
  24. 1960
  25. 1959