
Caterina Boratto
Personal Info
Known for
Acting
Gender
Female
Birthday
1915-03-14
Day of Death
2010-09-14 (95 years old)
Place of Birth
Rome - Lazio - Italy
Caterina Boratto
Biography
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.
Known For
Acting
(2006)
Fellini dice...
as Self
(1992)
Once Upon a Crime
as Madame de Senneville
(1989)
The Sleazy Uncle
as passante
(1989)
(1988)
Phantom of Death
as Mrs. Dominici
(1988)
32nd of December
as Carlotta
(1985)
My Friends Act III
as Amalia Pecci Bonetti
(1985)
(1984)
Claretta
as Giuseppina Petacci
(1983)
Fellini nel cestino
as Self
(1982)
The Night of Varennes
as Madame Faustine
(1982)
Ehrengard
as contessa von Gassner
(1981)
Uno contro l'altro, praticamente amici
as signora Colombo
(1979)
The House by the Edge of the Lake
as Kira - The Witch
(1978)
First Love
as Lucy
(1977)
(1976)
Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom
as Signora Castelli
(1975)
Footprints on the Moon
as Boutique Owner
(1974)
The Beautiful Summer
as The Princess
(1973)
Story of a Cloistered Nun
as Mother of Carmela
(1973)
La ragazza fuoristrada
as Silvia Marino
(1972)
Hector the Mighty
as Ecuba
(1972)
The House of Doves
as Virginia
(1972)
(1970)
Symphony of Love
as Principessa Vorokin
(1970)
Una storia d'amore
as Marco's Mother
(1969)
Castle Keep
as Red Queen
(1969)
The Lady of Monza
as Sister Francesca Imbersaga
(1969)
(1968)
Danger: Diabolik
as Lady Clark
(1967)
The Tiger and the Pussycat
as Della
(1967)
(1967)
Don't Sting the Mosquito
as Marchioness Filangeri
(1967)
Pronto... c'è una certa Giuliana per te
as Aunt Amelia
(1966)
Me, Me, Me... and the Others
as Luigia, Peppino's Sister-in-law
(1966)
Pardon, Are You for or Against?
as Agnese Frustalupi
(1965)
Juliet of the Spirits
as Giulietta's mother
(1963)
8½
as Mysterious Lady
(1951)
Double Cross
as Clara Vanzetti
(1943)
The Peddler and the Lady
as Elsa Bianchini
(1942)
Il romanzo di un giovane povero
as Margherita Laroque
(1939)
I figli del marchese Lucera
as Giannina
(1938)
Hanno rapito un uomo
as La granduchessa Sonia
(1938)
Chi è più felice di me!
as Rina
(1937)
Marcella
as Marcella
(1936)
Vivere!
as Paola