Laura Betti
Born in Casalecchio di Reno, Emilia-Romagna, Italy — May 01 1927• Died Jul 31 2004
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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, Theres…
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The Word
Maria
La Dolce Vita
Laura
The Cousin
Rosalia Scuderi
1900
Regina
Cinecittà Cinecittà
Caterina Elisabetta Magrevich
Fat Girl
Fernando's Mother
Theorem
Emilia, the Servant
The Canterbury Tales
The Wife from Bath
Private Vices, Public Virtues
Teresa
The Witches
Male Tourist (segment "La Terra vista dalla Luna")
The Charterhouse of Parma
The Vivandière
The Wings of the Dove
Zia Maud
A Bay of Blood
Anna Fossati
The Beaches of Agnès
Self (archive footage)
Ro.Go.Pa.G.
Sonia, the 'Diva' (segment "La ricotta")
Sonny and Jed
Betty
With Closed Eyes
Beatrice
Oedipus Rex
Jocasta's Maid (uncredited)
A Man Called Sledge
Sister
Red Lips
The Painter
Marianna Ucrìa
Giuseppa
The Defective Detective
Carlotta Batticelli
Jane B. by Agnès V.
Lardy
Lovers and Liars
Laura
Allonsanfan
Esther Imbriani
La ribelle
Sister Valida
Mother Ebe
Lidia Corradi
The Gang
Felicia
Slap the Monster on Page One
Rita Zigai
Sweets from a Stranger
Jolanda
The Murri Affair
Tisa Borghi
Renzo e Lucia
Madre Superiora
The Great Pumpkin
Aida
Caprice Italian Style
Desdemona
Marx Can Wait
Irina (archive footage) (uncredited)
Film
Writing
That Night of Varennes
Virginia Capacelli
The Seagull
Irina
Blame it on Paradise
direttrice
Jenatsch
Mademoiselle von Planta
Gallant Ladies
Catherine de Medicis
Hatchet for the Honeymoon
Mildred Harrington
The Protagonists
Judge
Happiness Costs Nothing
Suora guardiana
Abicinema
Self
My Name Is Anna Magnani
Self
The Woman with Red Boots
Léonore
The Earth As Seen from the Moon
un turista
I cammelli
Milena
Maresco / Pasolini
Self
Woman Buried Alive
Giovanna la Pazza
Butterfly on the Shoulder
Mme Carrabo
Escape by Night
Teresa
Un eroe borghese
Dottoressa Trebbi
In the Name of the Father
Franco's Mother
RARA
Suffocating Heat
Laura
Far from Manhattan
Madame Hanska
The Return
Clara
Art of Love
Clio
Noi siamo le colonne
La cantante annoiata (no acreditado)
We Free Kings
Una delle ragazze del coro
Widow's Walk
Keli
Class Relations
Brunelda
The Last Day of School Before Christmas
Passenger coach
At Night All Cats Are Crazy
Jacqueline
Mario, Maria and Mario
Laura
Laura's Passion
Self (archive footage)
Fratella e Sorello
Presidente Del Tribunale
Household Accounts
Contessa Celi Sanguineti
The Carpathian Mushroom
Olympia
The Little Archimedes
La signora Bondi
Raul - Right to Kill
Usuraia
Ecco
Self
Paulina Is Leaving
Hortense
Il diario di Matilde Manzoni
Teresa Manzoni Borri
Gli astronomi
Pavoncella
Pier Paolo Pasolini : vivre et encore plus
Elle-même
Stop the World... I Want to Get Off!
What Are the Clouds?
Desdemona
Einzelzimmer
Calogera
Whoever Says the Truth Shall Die
Self
Pasolini, el poeta en la playa
Herself
Le rose blu
La donna con la rosa blu
Venise en hiver
Mme Poli
Pasolini and the Secret Humiliation of Chaucer
Interviewee
Il silenzio è complicità
Directing
Pier Paolo Pasolini and the Reason of a Dream
Directing
Orgy
Donna