FrameThrower · Actors · Laura Betti
Laura Betti
4 films · 229 frames · top-billed in 1 · 1971–2001
Born 1 May 1927 · Casalecchio di Reno, Emilia-Romagna, Italy · died 31 July 2004
Laura Betti 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…
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 4 films · 229 frames · top-billed in 1 · 1971–2001
- Volpi Cup for Best Actress1968
- Ciak d'oro - best supporting actress1993
- Silver Shell for Best Actress1979
- Ordre des Arts et des Lettres
How their films are shot
Measured across 229 frames from the 4 films we hold. This is the look of the work Laura takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 4 films we hold, 61% of their frames are day, 56% natural — the look of the work Laura takes.
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Films in the library
Every poster opens that film — stills, cinematography notes and colour palette.
A reference database for filmmakers
FrameThrower is a fully machine-searchable film database and visual reference library — all 229 frames from Laura Betti's 4 films, and 5,000+ films besides, indexed frame by frame and readable by AI. Search it in plain language, from a reference image, or by colour; call it from an API, an MCP server or an SDK. It's the reference layer for making the next movie.