Laura Betti
Gender: Female
Born: 1st May 1927
Died: 31st July 2004
Nationality: Italy
TV programs: The Word (US)
Movies: Twitch of the Death Nerve, 1900, Allonsanfàn, Sbatti il mostro in prima pagina, Hatchet for the Honeymoon, The Canterbury Tales, Marianna Ucrìa, Happiness for Free, Teorema, Un eroe borghese, Escape by Night, In the Name of the Father, Lovers and Liars, Courage Mountain, The Murri Affair, That Night in Varennes, Fat Girl, The Woman with Red Boots, Class Relations, L'Art D'Aimer
Laura Betti (May 1, 1927 - July 31, 2004) was an Italian actress.
Born Laura Trombetti in Bologna, this blonde and flamboyant actress started her career as jazz singer. Betti made her film debut in Federico Fellini's La Dolce Vita. In 1963, she became a close friend of the poet and movie director Pier Paolo Pasolini, for whom she made a documentary after his death. Under Pasolini's direction she proved a wonderful talent, in many films like La ricotta (1963) and Teorema (Theorem, 1968). In 1976, she portrayed a cruel and eroto-maniacal fascist in Novecento (1900), directed by Bernardo Bertolucci. Since the 1960s, she dedicated much of her times 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.
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