Lea Massari
Anna Maria Massetani better known as Lea Massari (30 June 1933 — 23 June 2025) was an Italian actress. When she was 22, she changed her name to Lea Massari after the death of her fiancé Leo. She studied architecture in Switzerland. Massari became a celebrity in art cinema for two roles, the missing girl Anna in Michelangelo Antonioni's L'avventura (1960), and as Clara, the mother of a sexually precocious 14-year-old boy named Laurent (Benoît Ferreux) in Louis Malle's Murmur of the Heart (1971). She worked in both Italian and French Cinema. Her career includes Sergio Leone's debut Il Colosso di Rodi, and international commercial films such as Les choses de la vie. She was a member of the jury at the Cannes Film Festival in 1975. She won Nastro d'Argento as Best Supporting Actress for her role in Francesco Rosi's Christ Stopped at Eboli.
61 acting credits
Acting · 61
Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
1975
Midi Première
1975
Spécial cinéma
1974
Midi trente
1972
Murmur of the Heart
1971
L'Avventura
1960
Indian Summer
1972
Made in Italy
1965
The Night Caller
1975
The Colossus of Rhodes
1961
A Dog Called... Vengeance
1977
The Things of Life
1970
And Hope to Die
1972
Anna Karenina
1974
The Camp Followers
1965
Allonsanfan
1974
The Four Days of Naples
1962
The Brothers Karamazov
1969
Antonio Gramsci: The Days of Prison
1977
The Meetings of Anna
1978
Christ Stopped at Eboli
1979
Violette & Francois
1977
Forbidden
1955
Resurrection
1958
The Seventh Target
1984
A Difficult Life
1961
From a Roman Balcony
1960
Paris Pick-Up
1962
The Silent One
1973
Impossible Object
1973
Garden of Delights
1967
Weeping for a Bandit
1964
Bloody Murder
1974
Devil's Ransom
1971
The Probability Factor
1976
Chi dice donna, dice donna
1976
The Unvanquished
1964
Céleste
1970
Stream Line
1976
Conquered City
1962
The Woman in Blue
1973
The Son
1973
Journey of Love
1990
Secrets Secrets
1985
Sarah
1983
Sale rêveur
1978
I Want Him Dead
1968
Monica Vitti, une étoile dans la nuit
2017
Il était une fois Sergio Leone
2014
Volver a vivir
1968
Le Divorcement
1979
Faces of Love
1977
Una donna spezzata
1988
La Flambeuse
1981
Morte di un bandito
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Dreams Die at Dawn
1961
I sogni nel cassetto
1957
The Misanthrope
1967
Return to Lisca Bianca Island
1983
Edipo Re
1977
Paolo e Francesca
1971