Caterina Boratto
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.
Acted in
Fellini dice...
2006
as Self
Once Upon a Crime
1992
as Madame de Senneville
Villa Arzilla
1990
as Vittoria Gransasso
The Sleazy Uncle
1989
as passante
The Last Emotion
1989
Phantom of Death
1988
as Mrs. Dominici
32nd of December
1988
as Carlotta
Professione vacanze
1987
as Madre di Giangi
Un caso d'incoscienza
1985
My Friends Act III
1985
as Amalia Pecci Bonetti
Claretta
1984
as Giuseppina Petacci
The Far Pavilions
1984
as Mrs. Chiverton
Fellini nel cestino
1983
as Self
Ehrengard
1982
as contessa von Gassner
The Night of Varennes
1982
as Madame Faustine
Uno contro l'altro, praticamente amici
1981
as signora Colombo
Bel Ami
1979
as Mrs. Walter
Morte a passo di valzer
1979
as Lady Mary Cork
The House by the Edge of the Lake
1979
as Kira - The Witch
First Love
1978
as Lucy
This Is the Night
1977
Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom
1976
as Signora Castelli
Footprints on the Moon
1975
as Boutique Owner
La bellissima estate
1974
as The Princess
Story of a Cloistered Nun
1973
as Mother of Carmela
La ragazza fuoristrada
1973
as Silvia Marino
Lady Caroline Lamb
1972
The House of Doves
1972
as Virginia
Hector the Mighty
1972
as Ecuba
Symphony of Love
1970
as Principessa Vorokin
Una storia d'amore
1970
as Marco's Mother
Castle Keep
1969
as Red Queen
Fellini: A Director’s Notebook
1969
as Self
The Lady of Monza
1969
as Sister Francesca Imbersaga
Danger: Diabolik
1968
as Lady Clark
Stasera mi butto
1967
Pronto... c'è una certa Giuliana per te
1967
as Aunt Amelia
The Tiger and the Pussycat
1967
as Della
Don't Sting the Mosquito
1967
as Marchioness Filangeri
Pardon, Are You for or Against?
1966
as Agnese Frustalupi
Me, Me, Me... and the Others
1966
as Luigia, Peppino's Sister-in-law
Juliet of the Spirits
1965
as Giulietta's mother
8½
1963
as Mysterious Lady
Double Cross
1951
as Clara Vanzetti
The Peddler and the Lady
1943
as Elsa Bianchini
Il romanzo di un giovane povero
1942
as Margherita Laroque
I figli del marchese Lucera
1939
as Giannina
Hanno rapito un uomo
1938
as La granduchessa Sonia
Chi è più felice di me!
1938
as Rina
Marcella
1937
as Marcella
Vivere!
1936
as Paola