Place of Birth:
Rome - Lazio - Italy
Date of Birth:
3/14/1915
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.
8½
My Friends Act III
Phantom of Death
The Night of Varennes
Story of a Cloistered Nun
The Tiger and the Pussycat
The House of Doves
Once Upon a Crime
The Lady of Monza
The Peddler and the Lady
The Last Emotion
Fellini nel cestino
Symphony of Love
Hanno rapito un uomo
Don't Sting the Mosquito
Marcella
I figli del marchese Lucera
Il romanzo di un giovane povero
Stasera mi butto
La ragazza fuoristrada
Danger: Diabolik
La bellissima estate
Hector the Mighty
Lady Caroline Lamb
Castle Keep
The Sleazy Uncle
Juliet of the Spirits
Footprints on the Moon
Fellini dice...
The House by the Edge of the Lake
Fellini: A Director’s Notebook
Chi è più felice di me!
Double Cross
Vivere!
32nd of December
Uno contro l'altro, praticamente amici
Claretta
Pardon, Are You for or Against?
Ehrengard
Me, Me, Me... and the Others
Pronto... c'è una certa Giuliana per te
Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom
First Love
This Is the Night
Una storia d'amore
Un caso d'incoscienza