Lea Massari
Acting
1933-06-30 · 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.
Filmography(61)
movieMonica Vitti, une étoile dans la nuit
as Self (archive footage) · 2017 · 8.0
movieIl était une fois Sergio Leone
as Self · 2014 · 0.0
movieJourney of Love
as Zaira · 1990 · 10.0
movieUna donna spezzata
as · 1988 · 9.0
movieSecrets Secrets
as Marta · 1985 · 7.3
movieThe Seventh Target
as Nelly · 1984 · 5.9
movieReturn to Lisca Bianca Island
as Anna (voice) (archive footage) · 1983 · 4.9
movieSarah
as Carla Angelli · 1983 · 6.0
movieLa Flambeuse
as Louise · 1981 · 4.0
movieLe Divorcement
as Rosa · 1979 · 8.0
movieChrist Stopped at Eboli
as Luisa Levi · 1979 · 7.2
movieThe Meetings of Anna
as Anna's mother · 1978 · 7.0
movieSale rêveur
as Joséphe · 1978 · 9.0
movieEdipo Re
as Iocasta · 1977 · 0.0
movieA Dog Called... Vengeance
as Muriel · 1977 · 5.5
movieFaces of Love
as Cecilia · 1977 · 6.1
movieAntonio Gramsci: The Days of Prison
as Tania · 1977 · 6.9
movieViolette & Francois
as Cécile Levene · 1977 · 6.2
movieStream Line
as Amanda Treves · 1976 · 7.0
movieThe Probability Factor
as Gloria · 1976 · 4.0
movieChi dice donna, dice donna
as Gilbert · 1976 · 6.3
movieThe Night Caller
as Norah Elmer · 1975 · 7.2
tvLes Rendez-vous du dimanche
as Self · 1975 · 6.0
tvMidi Première
as Self · 1975 · 9.0