Laura Betti

ActorDirectorWriterCrew May 1 (died age 77) Casalecchio di Reno, Emilia-Romagna, Italy 1956–2021 (65 year career)

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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, hyste…

Known For

Film

La Dolce Vita

Laura

Film

1900

Regina

Film

Theorem

Emilia, the Servant

Film

Oedipus Rex

Jocasta's Maid (uncredited)

Film

A Bay of Blood

Anna Fossati

Film

Slap the Monster on Page One

Rita Zigai

Film

The Beaches of Agnès

Self (archive footage)

Film

Ro.Go.Pa.G.

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

Filmography

Acting (87)

Movies (82)

Maresco / Pasolini

2021

as Self

Marx Can Wait

2021

as Irina (archive footage) (uncredited)

7.3

Laura's Passion

2011

as Self (archive footage)

The Beaches of Agnès

2008

as Self (archive footage)

7.7

Pasolini and the Secret Humiliation of Chaucer

2006

as Interviewee

Fratella e Sorello

2005

as Presidente Del Tribunale

Raul - Right to Kill

2005

as Usuraia

Renzo e Lucia

2004

as Madre Superiora

Gli astronomi

2003

as Pavoncella

Happiness Costs Nothing

2003

as Suora guardiana

3.3

Household Accounts

2003

as Contessa Celi Sanguineti

Il diario di Matilde Manzoni

2002

as Teresa Manzoni Borri

Fat Girl

2001

as Fernando's Mother

6.2

Pasolini, el poeta en la playa

as Herself

The Protagonists

as Judge

Marianna Ucrìa

as Giuseppa

We Free Kings

as Una delle ragazze del coro

Un eroe borghese

as Dottoressa Trebbi

With Closed Eyes

as Beatrice

Mario, Maria and Mario

as Laura

The Great Pumpkin

as Aida

La ribelle

as Sister Valida

Suffocating Heat

as Laura

The Carpathian Mushroom

1990

as Olympia

5.2

Gallant Ladies

1990

as Catherine de Medicis

3.0

Le rose blu

1990

as La donna con la rosa blu

Jane B. by Agnès V.

as Lardy

I cammelli

as Milena

Widow's Walk

as Keli

Jenatsch

as Mademoiselle von Planta

5.1

Sweets from a Stranger

as Jolanda

Blame it on Paradise

as direttrice

Mother Ebe

as Lidia Corradi

Class Relations

as Brunelda

The Defective Detective

1984

as Carlotta Batticelli

7.5

Art of Love

1983

as Clio

5.0

The Night of Varennes

1982

as Virginia Capacelli

Far from Manhattan

as Madame Hanska

Venise en hiver

as Mme Poli

Whoever Says the Truth Shall Die

1981

as Self

4.9

My Name Is Anna Magnani

1980

as Self

8.0

The Little Archimedes

as La signora Bondi

Lovers and Liars

as Laura

Einzelzimmer

as Calogera

Butterfly on the Shoulder

as Mme Carrabo

The Gang

as Felicia

At Night All Cats Are Crazy

as Jacqueline

The Seagull

as Irina

1900

as Regina

Private Vices, Public Virtues

1976

as Teresa

5.1

Pier Paolo Pasolini : vivre et encore plus

1976

as Elle-même

Abicinema

1975

as Self

6.0

The Last Day of School Before Christmas

1975

as Passenger coach

The Murri Affair

as Tisa Borghi

Allonsanfan

as Esther Imbriani

The Cousin

as Rosalia Scuderi

The Woman with Red Boots

1974

as Léonore

5.5

The Return

1973

as Clara

Woman Buried Alive

1973

as Giovanna la Pazza

2.3

The Canterbury Tales

1972

as The Wife from Bath

6.1

Slap the Monster on Page One

as Rita Zigai

Sonny and Jed

as Betty

A Bay of Blood

as Anna Fossati

In the Name of the Father

as Franco's Mother

A Man Called Sledge

as Sister

Hatchet for the Honeymoon

1970

as Mildred Harrington

6.4

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

Paulina Is Leaving

as Hortense

RARA

Theorem

as Emilia, the Servant

7.0

Caprice Italian Style

as Desdemona

What Are the Clouds?

as Desdemona

Orgy

as Donna

Oedipus Rex

1967

as Jocasta's Maid (uncredited)

6.8

The Witches

1967

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

6.0

The Earth As Seen from the Moon

1967

as un turista

8.2

Ro.Go.Pa.G.

1963

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

Ecco

as Self

La Dolce Vita

as Laura

Escape by Night

as Teresa

Red Lips

as The Painter

Noi siamo le colonne

1956

as La cantante annoiata (no acreditado)

Television (5)

Cinecittà Cinecittà

1985

as Caterina Elisabetta Magrevich

The Charterhouse of Parma

1982

as The Vivandière

10.0

The Wings of the Dove

1981

as Zia Maud

The Word

1978

as Maria

5.0

Discorama

1959

as Self

Crew (6)

Movies (6)

Pier Paolo Pasolini and the Reason of a Dream

Director

Film

Writer

Il silenzio è complicità

1976

Director

A Bay of Blood

1971

Additional Writing

6.6

Hatchet for the Honeymoon

1970

Screenplay

6.4

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

1970

Writer

5.5