Lea Massari
Acting
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
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movieMonica Vitti, une étoile dans la nuit
2017
Self (archive footage)
movieReturn to Lisca Bianca Island
1983
Anna (voice) (archive footage)
movieSarah
1983
Carla Angelli
movieLa Flambeuse
1981
Louise
movieChrist Stopped at Eboli
1979
Luisa Levi
movieThe Meetings of Anna
1978
Anna's mother
movieEdipo Re
1977
Iocasta
movieFaces of Love
1977
Cecilia
movieViolette & Francois
1977
Cécile Levene
movieStream Line
1976
Amanda Treves
movieThe Night Caller
1975
Norah Elmer
tvAnna Karenina
1974
Anna Karenina
movieAllonsanfan
1974
Charlotte
movieBloody Murder
1974
Helene Noblet
movieImpossible Object
1973
Hippolyta
movieThe Son
1973
Maria
movieThe Woman in Blue
1973
Aurélie
movieIndian Summer
1972
Monica
movieMurmur of the Heart
1971
Clara Chevalier
movieCéleste
1970
Hélène
movieThe Things of Life
1970
Catherine Bérard
tvThe Brothers Karamazov
1969
Agrafena Aleksàndrovna
movieMade in Italy
1965
Monica (segment "1 'Usi e costumi', episode 3")
movieThe Unvanquished
1964
Dominique Servet
movieWeeping for a Bandit
1964
María Jerónima
movieConquered City
1962
Lelia Mendores
movieParis Pick-Up
1962
Marthe Dravet
movieA Difficult Life
1961
Elena Pavinato
movieDreams Die at Dawn
1961
Anna Miklos
movieResurrection
1958
Maria Pawlowa
movieI sogni nel cassetto
1957
Lucia Moretti
movieForbidden
1955
Agnese Barras