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.
Filmography (61)
Monica Vitti, une étoile dans la nuit
Il était une fois Sergio Leone
Journey of Love- Una donna spezzata
Secrets Secrets
The Seventh Target
Sarah
Return to Lisca Bianca Island
La Flambeuse
Le Divorcement
Christ Stopped at Eboli- Sale rêveur
The Meetings of Anna
Antonio Gramsci: The Days of Prison
Violette & Francois
Faces of Love
A Dog Called... Vengeance
Edipo Re
Stream Line
Chi dice donna, dice donna
The Probability Factor
Midi Première
The Night Caller
Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
Spécial cinéma
Allonsanfan
Anna Karenina
Bloody Murder
The Silent One
The Son
The Woman in Blue
Impossible Object
Indian Summer
And Hope to Die
Midi trente
Paolo e Francesca
Devil's Ransom
Murmur of the Heart
The Things of Life
Céleste
The Brothers Karamazov
Volver a vivir
I Want Him Dead
Garden of Delights- The Misanthrope
The Camp Followers
Made in Italy
The Unvanquished
Weeping for a Bandit
The Four Days of Naples
Paris Pick-Up
Conquered City
Dreams Die at Dawn
A Difficult Life
The Colossus of Rhodes
L'Avventura
From a Roman Balcony
Resurrection
I sogni nel cassetto
Forbidden- Morte di un bandito