Caterina Boratto
Acting • Born 1915-03-14 – Died 2010-09-14
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
54 credits
8½
Movie • 1963
Mysterious Lady
My Friends Act III
Movie • 1985
Amalia Pecci Bonetti
Phantom of Death
Movie • 1988
Robert's Mother
That Night of Varennes
Movie • 1982
Madame Faustine
Story of a Cloistered Nun
Movie • 1973
Mother of Carmela
The Tiger and the Pussycat
Movie • 1967
Della
The House of Doves
Movie • 1972
Virginia
Once Upon a Crime
Movie • 1992
Madame de Senneville
The Lady of Monza
Movie • 1969
Sister Francesca Imbersaga
The Peddler and the Lady
Movie • 1943
Elsa Bianchini
The Last Emotion
Movie • 1989
Fellini nel cestino
Movie • 1983
Self
Symphony of Love
Movie • 1970
Principessa Vorokin
Hanno rapito un uomo
Movie • 1938
La granduchessa Sonia
Don't Sting the Mosquito
Movie • 1967
Marchioness Filangeri
Marcella
Movie • 1937
Marcella
I figli del marchese Lucera
Movie • 1939
Giannina
Il romanzo di un giovane povero
Movie • 1942
Margherita Laroque
Tonight I'll Throw Me
Movie • 1967
The Off-Road Girl
Movie • 1973
Silvia Marino
Danger: Diabolik
Movie • 1968
Lady Clark
The Beautiful Summer
Movie • 1974
The Princess
Hector the Mighty
Movie • 1972
Ecuba
Lady Caroline Lamb
Movie • 1972
Castle Keep
Movie • 1969
Red Queen
The Sleazy Uncle
Movie • 1989
passante
Juliet of the Spirits
Movie • 1965
Giulietta's mother
Footprints on the Moon
Movie • 1975
Boutique Owner
Fellini dice...
Movie • 2006
Self
The House by the Edge of the Lake
Movie • 1979
Kira - The Witch
Fellini: A Director’s Notebook
Movie • 1969
Self
Who Is Happier Than I?
Movie • 1938
Rina
Double Cross
Movie • 1951
Clara Vanzetti
Vivere!
Movie • 1936
Paola
32nd of December
Movie • 1988
Carlotta
Uno contro l'altro, praticamente amici
Movie • 1981
signora Colombo
Claretta
Movie • 1984
Giuseppina Petacci
Pardon, Are You for or Against?
Movie • 1966
Agnese Frustalupi
Ehrengard
Movie • 1982
contessa von Gassner
Me, Me, Me... and the Others
Movie • 1966
Luigia, Peppino's Sister-in-law
Pronto... c'è una certa Giuliana per te
Movie • 1967
Aunt Amelia
Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom
Movie • 1976
Signora Castelli
First Love
Movie • 1978
Lucy
This Is the Night
Movie • 1977
Una storia d'amore
Movie • 1970
Marco's Mother
Un caso d'incoscienza
Movie • 1985
120 Days of Sodom Literally
Movie • 2025
Madame Castelli
Bel Ami
TV • 1979
Mrs. Walter
Villa Arzilla
TV • 1990
Vittoria Gransasso
Morte a passo di valzer
TV • 1979
Lady Mary Cork
Professione vacanze
TV • 1987
Madre di Giangi
The Far Pavilions
TV • 1984
Mrs. Chiverton
Cinecittà Cinecittà
TV • 1985
Mansion Owner
Anna Karenina
TV • 1974
Principessa Scerbatzkaja