Lea Massari
Acting
Born: 1933-06-30 in Roma, Lazio, Italy
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
Midi Première
Self
Spécial cinéma
Self
Midi trente
Self
Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
Self
Murmur of the Heart
Clara Chevalier
The Night Caller
Norah Elmer
Conquered City
Lelia Mendores
L'Avventura
Anna
Indian Summer
Monica
Io, Gigliola
Secrets Secrets
Marta
The Things of Life
Catherine Bérard
The Colossus of Rhodes
Diala
Faces of Love
Cecilia
I Want Him Dead
Aloma
The Brothers Karamazov
Agrafena Aleksàndrovna
The Camp Followers
Toula
The Seventh Target
Nelly
Sarah
Carla Angelli
Made in Italy
Monica (segment "1 'Usi e costumi', episode 3")
Anna Karenina
Anna Karenina
The Four Days of Naples
Maria
Impossible Object
Hippolyta
The Meetings of Anna
Anna's mother
Resurrection
Maria Pawlowa
The Silent One
Maria
Paris Pick-Up
Marthe Dravet
Christ Stopped at Eboli
Luisa Levi
A Difficult Life
Elena Pavinato
The Unvanquished
Dominique Servet
And Hope to Die
Sugar
From a Roman Balcony
Freya
A Dog Called... Vengeance
Muriel
Devil's Ransom
Britt
Journey of Love
Zaira
The Son
Maria
The Woman in Blue
Aurélie
Allonsanfan
Charlotte
Bloody Murder
Helene Noblet