Birthday: 1915-03-14
Deathday: 2010-09-14
Birthplace: Rome - Lazio - Italy
Gender: Female
Owned By: Unowned
Caterina Boratto (15 March 1915 – 14 September 2010) was an Italian film actress. She appeared in 50 films between 1936 and 1993.
Born in Turin, Boratto studied at the Musical Lyceum in her hometown with the purpose of becoming a singer; noted by Guido Brignone, she made her debut in To Live, alongside Tito Schipa. Thanks to the film's success, she immediately became a star in the Telefoni Bianchi genre, and also got a seven-year contract with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer which eventually dissolved because of World War II.
In 1943, Boratto lost two brothers, the partisan Renato and the soldier Filiberto, killed in the massacre of the Acqui Division. In 1944, she married a doctor, Armando Ceratto, with whom she had two children. Except for a film in 1951, she basically retired from show business for twenty years before accepting to play two key roles in 8½ and Juliet of the Spirits by Federico Fellini, who had known her in the set of The Peddler and the Lady, where he had served as screenwriter. Starting from the second half of the 1960s, Boratto resumed appearing in films with some regularity, and from the late 1970s, she also became very active on television, being cast in dozens of TV series.
Year | Title | Character | |
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1992-03-06 | Once Upon a Crime | Madame de Senneville | |
1989-10-27 | The Sleazy Uncle | passante | |
1989-01-01 | The Last Emotion | ||
1988-03-11 | Phantom of Death | Mrs. Dominici | |
1988-01-28 | 32nd of December | Carlotta | |
1985-07-10 | Un caso d'incoscienza | ||
1985-06-06 | My Friends Act III | Amalia Pecci Bonetti | |
1984-05-31 | Claretta | Giuseppina Petacci | |
1982-07-04 | Ehrengard | contessa von Gassner | |
1982-05-15 | The Night of Varennes | Madame Faustine | |
1981-03-26 | Uno contro l'altro, praticamente amici | signora Colombo | |
1979-09-28 | The House by the Edge of the Lake | Kira - The Witch | |
1978-11-10 | First Love | Lucy | |
1977-04-10 | This Is the Night | ||
1976-01-10 | Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom | Signora Castelli | |
1975-02-01 | Footprints on the Moon | Boutique Owner | |
1974-11-20 | La bellissima estate | The Princess | |
1973-11-09 | Story of a Cloistered Nun | Mother of Carmela | |
1973-08-11 | La ragazza fuoristrada | Silvia Marino | |
1972-11-22 | Lady Caroline Lamb | ||
1972-02-21 | The House of Doves | Virginia | |
1972-01-06 | Hector the Mighty | Ecuba | |
1970-09-03 | Symphony of Love | Principessa Vorokin | |
1970-01-22 | Una storia d'amore | Marco's Mother | |
1969-07-23 | Castle Keep | Red Queen | |
1969-02-26 | The Lady of Monza | Sister Francesca Imbersaga | |
1968-01-24 | Danger: Diabolik | Lady Clark | |
1967-11-03 | Stasera mi butto | ||
1967-09-07 | Pronto... c'è una certa Giuliana per te | Aunt Amelia | |
1967-04-29 | The Tiger and the Pussycat | Della | |
1967-03-24 | Don't Sting the Mosquito | Marchioness Filangeri | |
1966-12-23 | Pardon, Are You for or Against? | Agnese Frustalupi | |
1966-02-16 | Me, Me, Me... and the Others | Luigia, Peppino's Sister-in-law | |
1965-10-22 | Juliet of the Spirits | Giulietta's mother | |
1963-02-14 | 8½ | Mysterious Lady | |
1951-04-10 | Double Cross | Clara Vanzetti | |
1943-06-24 | The Peddler and the Lady | Elsa Bianchini | |
1942-10-14 | Il romanzo di un giovane povero | Margherita Laroque | |
1939-01-01 | I figli del marchese Lucera | Giannina | |
1938-10-12 | Hanno rapito un uomo | La granduchessa Sonia | |
1938-01-17 | Chi è più felice di me! | Rina | |
1937-01-01 | Marcella | Marcella | |
1936-12-30 | Vivere! | Paola |