
Lea Massari
Born June 30, 1933 · Roma, Lazio, Italy
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.
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Indian Summer

The Night Caller

L'Avventura

And Hope to Die

I Want Him Dead

The Four Days of Naples

The Meetings of Anna

A Difficult Life

Stream Line

The Seventh Target

Christ Stopped at Eboli

The Camp Followers

Chi dice donna, dice donna

The Probability Factor

Weeping for a Bandit

Allonsanfan

The Woman in Blue

Conquered City

Secrets Secrets

Made in Italy

The Silent One

Faces of Love

Il était une fois Sergio Leone

Monica Vitti, une étoile dans la nuit

Bloody Murder

Impossible Object

Paris Pick-Up

Return to Lisca Bianca Island

Journey of Love

Garden of Delights

A Dog Called... Vengeance

From a Roman Balcony

Devil's Ransom

Sarah

Resurrection

The Unvanquished

Edipo Re

Violette & Francois

Antonio Gramsci: The Days of Prison

I sogni nel cassetto

Dreams Die at Dawn

Volver a vivir

Céleste

Forbidden

The Son

Paolo e Francesca

Le Divorcement










