Known For
Acting
Born
Jun 30, 1933
Died
Jun 23, 2025
Place of Birth
Roma, Lazio, Italy
Credits
61 titles
Lea Massari
Biography
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.
Known For
Filmography
Monica Vitti, une étoile dans la nuit
Self (archive footage)
Il était une fois Sergio Leone
Self
Journey of Love
Zaira
Una donna spezzata
Secrets Secrets
Marta
The Seventh Target
Nelly
Return to Lisca Bianca Island
Anna (voice) (archive footage)
Sarah
Carla Angelli
La Flambeuse
Louise
Le Divorcement
Rosa
Christ Stopped at Eboli
Luisa Levi
The Meetings of Anna
Anna's mother
Sale rêveur
Joséphe
Edipo Re
Iocasta
A Dog Called... Vengeance
Muriel
Faces of Love
Cecilia
Antonio Gramsci: The Days of Prison
Tania
Violette & Francois
Cécile Levene
Stream Line
Amanda Treves
The Probability Factor
Gloria
Chi dice donna, dice donna
Gilbert
The Night Caller
Norah Elmer
Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
Self
Midi Première
Self
Anna Karenina
Anna Karenina
Spécial cinéma
Self
Allonsanfan
Charlotte
Bloody Murder
Helene Noblet
Impossible Object
Hippolyta
The Son
Maria
The Silent One
Maria
The Woman in Blue
Aurélie
Indian Summer
Monica
And Hope to Die
Sugar
Midi trente
Self
Paolo e Francesca
Devil's Ransom
Britt
Murmur of the Heart
Clara Chevalier
Céleste
Hélène
The Things of Life
Catherine Bérard
The Brothers Karamazov
Agrafena Aleksàndrovna
I Want Him Dead
Aloma
Volver a vivir
María
Garden of Delights
The Misanthrope
Célimène
Made in Italy
Monica (segment "1 'Usi e costumi', episode 3")
The Camp Followers
Toula
The Unvanquished
Dominique Servet
Weeping for a Bandit
María Jerónima
Conquered City
Lelia Mendores