- Known For
- Acting
- Born
- June 30, 1933
- Place of Birth
- Roma, Lazio, Italy
- Died
- June 23, 2025
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
movieMonica Vitti, une étoile dans la nuit
2017 · Self (archive footage)
movieIl était une fois Sergio Leone
2014 · Self
movieJourney of Love
1990 · Zaira
Una donna spezzata
movieUna donna spezzata
1988 · , Writer
movieSecrets Secrets
1985 · Marta
movieThe Seventh Target
1984 · Nelly
movieReturn to Lisca Bianca Island
1983 · Anna (voice) (archive footage)
movieSarah
1983 · Carla Angelli
movieLa Flambeuse
1981 · Louise
movieLe Divorcement
1979 · Rosa
movieChrist Stopped at Eboli
1979 · Luisa Levi
movieThe Meetings of Anna
1978 · Anna's mother
Sale rêveur
movieSale rêveur
1978 · Joséphe
movieEdipo Re
1977 · Iocasta
movieA Dog Called... Vengeance
1977 · Muriel
movieFaces of Love
1977 · Cecilia
movieAntonio Gramsci: The Days of Prison
1977 · Tania
movieViolette & Francois
1977 · Cécile Levene
movieStream Line
1976 · Amanda Treves
movieThe Probability Factor
1976 · Gloria
movieChi dice donna, dice donna
1976 · Gilbert
movieThe Night Caller
1975 · Norah Elmer
tvLes Rendez-vous du dimanche
1975 · Self
tvMidi Première
1975 · Self
tvAnna Karenina
1974 · Anna Karenina
tvSpécial cinéma
1974 · Self
movieAllonsanfan
1974 · Charlotte
movieBloody Murder
1974 · Helene Noblet
movieImpossible Object
1973 · Hippolyta
movieThe Son
1973 · Maria
movieThe Silent One
1973 · Maria
movieThe Woman in Blue
1973 · Aurélie
movieIndian Summer
1972 · Monica
movieAnd Hope to Die
1972 · Sugar
tvMidi trente
1972 · Self
moviePaolo e Francesca
1971
movieDevil's Ransom
1971 · Britt
movieMurmur of the Heart
1971 · Clara Chevalier
movieCéleste
1970 · Hélène
movieThe Things of Life
1970 · Catherine Bérard
tvThe Brothers Karamazov
1969 · Agrafena Aleksàndrovna
movieI Want Him Dead
1968 · Aloma
movieVolver a vivir
1968 · María
movieGarden of Delights
1967
The Misanthrope
movieThe Misanthrope
1967 · Célimène
movieMade in Italy
1965 · Monica (segment "1 'Usi e costumi', episode 3")
movieThe Camp Followers
1965 · Toula
movieThe Unvanquished
1964 · Dominique Servet
movieWeeping for a Bandit
1964 · María Jerónima
movieConquered City
1962 · Lelia Mendores
movieThe Four Days of Naples
1962 · Maria
movieParis Pick-Up
1962 · Marthe Dravet
movieA Difficult Life
1961 · Elena Pavinato
movieDreams Die at Dawn
1961 · Anna Miklos
movieThe Colossus of Rhodes
1961 · Diala
movieFrom a Roman Balcony
1960 · Freya
movieL'Avventura
1960 · Anna
movieResurrection
1958 · Maria Pawlowa
movieI sogni nel cassetto
1957 · Lucia Moretti
movieForbidden
1955 · Agnese Barras
Morte di un bandito
movieMorte di un bandito
— · Santa