Caterina Boratto
Actor
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.
Filmography
Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom
as Signora Castelli 1976
Juliet of the Spirits
as Giulietta's mother 1965
Danger: Diabolik
as Lady Clark 1968
My Friends Act III
as Amalia Pecci Bonetti 1985
Once Upon a Crime
as Madame de Senneville 1992
Castle Keep
as Red Queen 1969
The Night of Varennes
as Madame Faustine 1982
Footprints on the Moon
as Boutique Owner 1975
32nd of December
as Carlotta 1988
Uno contro l'altro, praticamente amici
as signora Colombo 1981
Phantom of Death
as Robert's Mother 1988
The Tiger and the Pussycat
as Della 1967
First Love
as Lucy 1978
Fellini: A Director’s Notebook
as Self 1969
Pardon, Are You for or Against?
as Agnese Frustalupi 1966
Me, Me, Me... and the Others
as Luigia, Peppino's Sister-in-law 1966