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

• 1992Once Upon a Crime — Madame de Senneville
• Villa Arzilla — Vittoria Gransasso
• 1989The Last Emotion
• 1989The Sleazy Uncle — passante
• 198832nd of December — Carlotta
• 1988Phantom of Death — Robert's Mother
• Professione vacanze — Madre di Giangi
• Cinecittà Cinecittà — Mansion Owner
• 1985My Friends Act III — Amalia Pecci Bonetti
• 1985Un caso d'incoscienza
• 1984Claretta — Giuseppina Petacci
• The Far Pavilions — Mrs. Chiverton
• 1982Ehrengard — contessa von Gassner
• 1982That Night of Varennes — Madame Faustine
• 1981Uno contro l'altro, praticamente amici — signora Colombo
• Bel Ami — Mrs. Walter
• Morte a passo di valzer — Lady Mary Cork
• 1979The House by the Edge of the Lake — Kira - The Witch
• 1978First Love — Lucy
• 1977This Is the Night
• 1976Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom — Signora Castelli
• 1975Footprints on the Moon — Boutique Owner
• Anna Karenina — Principessa Scerbatzkaja
• 1974The Beautiful Summer — The Princess
• 1973Story of a Cloistered Nun — Mother of Carmela
• 1973The Off-Road Girl — Silvia Marino
• 1972Hector the Mighty — Ecuba
• 1972Lady Caroline Lamb
• 1972The House of Doves — Virginia
• 1970Jet Set Swingers — Marco's Mother
• 1970Symphony of Love — Principessa Vorokin
• 1969Castle Keep — Red Queen
• 1969The Lady of Monza — Sister Francesca Imbersaga
• 1968Danger: Diabolik — Lady Clark
• 1967Don't Sting the Mosquito — Marchioness Filangeri
• 1967Hello... There's a Certain Giuliana for You — Aunt Amelia
• 1967The Tiger and the Pussycat — Della
• 1967Tonight I'll Throw Me
• 1966Me, Me, Me... and the Others — Luigia, Peppino's Sister-in-law
• 1966Pardon, Are You for or Against? — Agnese Frustalupi
• 1965Juliet of the Spirits — Giulietta's mother
• 19638½ — Mysterious Lady
• 1951Double Cross — Clara Vanzetti
• 1943Dente per dente — Isabella
• 1943The Peddler and the Lady — Elsa Bianchini
• 1942Il romanzo di un giovane povero — Margherita Laroque
• 1939I figli del marchese Lucera — Giannina
• 1938Hanno rapito un uomo — La granduchessa Sonia
• 1938Who Is Happier Than I? — Rina
• 1937Marcella — Marcella
• 1936Vivere! — Paola

Appearances as themselves (3)

• 2006Fellini dice... — Self
• 1983Fellini nel cestino — Self
• 1969Fellini: A Director’s Notebook — Self