Caterina Boratto
Born: 1915-03-14 in Rome - Lazio - Italy
Died: 2010-09-14
Known For: Acting
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
2025
- 120 Days of Sodom Literally as Madame Castelli
2006
- Fellini dice... as Self
1992
- Once Upon a Crime as Madame de Senneville
1990
- Villa Arzilla as Vittoria Gransasso
1989
- The Sleazy Uncle as passante
- The Last Emotion
1988
- Phantom of Death as Robert's Mother
- 32nd of December as Carlotta
1987
- Professione vacanze as Madre di Giangi
1985
- My Friends Act III as Amalia Pecci Bonetti
- Un caso d'incoscienza
- Cinecittà Cinecittà as Mansion Owner
1984
- The Far Pavilions as Mrs. Chiverton
- Claretta as Giuseppina Petacci
1983
- Fellini nel cestino as Self
1982
- Ehrengard as contessa von Gassner
- The Night of Varennes as Madame Faustine
1981
- Uno contro l'altro, praticamente amici as signora Colombo
1979
- The House by the Edge of the Lake as Kira - The Witch
- Morte a passo di valzer as Lady Mary Cork
- Bel Ami as Mrs. Walter
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
- Anna Karenina as Principessa Scerbatzkaja
1973
- The Off-Road Girl as Silvia Marino
- Story of a Cloistered Nun as Mother of Carmela
1972
- Lady Caroline Lamb
- The House of Doves as Virginia
- Hector the Mighty as Ecuba
1970
- Symphony of Love as Principessa Vorokin
- Una storia d'amore as Marco's Mother
1969
- Castle Keep as Red Queen
- Fellini: A Director’s Notebook as Self
- The Lady of Monza as Sister Francesca Imbersaga
1968
- Danger: Diabolik as Lady Clark
1967
- The Tiger and the Pussycat as Della
- Don't Sting the Mosquito as Marchioness Filangeri
- Tonight I'll Throw Me
- Pronto... c'è una certa Giuliana per te as Aunt Amelia
1966
- Pardon, Are You for or Against? as Agnese Frustalupi
- Me, Me, Me... and the Others as Luigia, Peppino's Sister-in-law
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
- Chi è più felice di me! as Rina
1937
- Marcella as Marcella
1936
- Vivere! as Paola