Caterina Boratto

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.

Credits

Year Title Character
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 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