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Lea Massari

Lea Massari

Actor · Born 1933-06-30 · Roma, Lazio, Italy

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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.

Movies & TV Shows

  1. L'Avventura (1960) — Anna
  2. The Night Caller (1975) — Norah Elmer
  3. The Things of Life (1970) — Catherine Bérard
  4. Murmur of the Heart (1971) — Clara Chevalier
  5. The Colossus of Rhodes (1961) — Diala
  6. Indian Summer (1972) — Monica
  7. A Difficult Life (1961) — Elena Pavinato
  8. Christ Stopped at Eboli (1979) — Luisa Levi
  9. The Meetings of Anna (1978) — Anna's mother
  10. The Seventh Target (1984) — Nelly
  11. The Four Days of Naples (1962) — Maria
  12. The Silent One (1973) — Maria
  13. Allonsanfan (1974) — Charlotte
  14. The Camp Followers (1965) — Toula
  15. The Unvanquished (1964) — Dominique Servet
  16. And Hope to Die (1972) — Sugar
  17. I Want Him Dead (1968) — Aloma
  18. Made in Italy (1965) — Monica (segment "1 'Usi e costumi', episode 3")
  19. Garden of Delights (1967)
  20. A Dog Called... Vengeance (1977) — Muriel
  21. From a Roman Balcony (1960) — Freya
  22. The Probability Factor (1976) — Gloria
  23. Violette & Francois (1977) — Cécile Levene
  24. Paris Pick-Up (1962) — Marthe Dravet
  25. Impossible Object (1973) — Hippolyta
  26. Bloody Murder (1974) — Helene Noblet
  27. The Woman in Blue (1973) — Aurélie
  28. Weeping for a Bandit (1964) — María Jerónima
  29. Secrets Secrets (1985) — Marta
  30. Antonio Gramsci: The Days of Prison (1977) — Tania
  31. Faces of Love (1977) — Cecilia
  32. The Brothers Karamazov (1969) — Agrafena Aleksàndrovna
  33. The Son (1973) — Maria
  34. Chi dice donna, dice donna (1976) — Gilbert
  35. Conquered City (1962) — Lelia Mendores
  36. Sarah (1983) — Carla Angelli
  37. Return to Lisca Bianca Island (1983) — Anna (voice) (archive footage)
  38. Devil's Ransom (1971) — Britt
  39. I sogni nel cassetto (1957) — Lucia Moretti
  40. Forbidden (1955) — Agnese Barras