
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