Lea Massari
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- June 30, 1933
- Died
- June 23, 2025 (aged 91)
- Birthplace
- 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.
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Filmography
Morte di un bandito
Movie · as Santa
Monica Vitti, une étoile dans la nuit
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Il était une fois Sergio Leone
Movie · as Self
Journey of Love
Movie · as Zaira
Una donna spezzata
TV · 2 eps
Secrets Secrets
Movie · as Marta
The Seventh Target
Movie · as Nelly
Sarah
Movie · as Carla Angelli
Return to Lisca Bianca Island
Movie · as Anna (voice) (archive footage)
La Flambeuse
Movie · as Louise
Christ Stopped at Eboli
Movie · as Luisa Levi
Le Divorcement
Movie · as Rosa
The Meetings of Anna
Movie · as Anna's mother
Sale rêveur
Movie · as Joséphe
A Dog Called... Vengeance
Movie · as Muriel
Faces of Love
Movie · as Cecilia
Antonio Gramsci: The Days of Prison
Movie · as Tania
Edipo Re
Movie · as Iocasta
Violette & Francois
Movie · as Cécile Levene
The Probability Factor
Movie · as Gloria
Chi dice donna, dice donna
Movie · as Gilbert
Stream Line
Movie · as Amanda Treves
The Night Caller
Movie · as Norah Elmer
Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
TV · as Self · 2 eps
Midi Première
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Allonsanfan
Movie · as Charlotte
Bloody Murder
Movie · as Helene Noblet
Anna Karenina
TV · as Anna Karenina · 6 eps
Spécial cinéma
TV · as Self · 1 ep
The Silent One
Movie · as Maria
The Woman in Blue
Movie · as Aurélie
Impossible Object
Movie · as Hippolyta
The Son
Movie · as Maria
And Hope to Die
Movie · as Sugar
Indian Summer
Movie · as Monica
Midi trente
TV · as Self · 2 eps
Devil's Ransom
Movie · as Britt
Murmur of the Heart
Movie · as Clara Chevalier
Paolo e Francesca
Movie
The Things of Life
Movie · as Catherine Bérard
Céleste
Movie · as Hélène
The Brothers Karamazov
TV · as Agrafena Aleksàndrovna · 7 eps
I Want Him Dead
Movie · as Aloma
Volver a vivir
Movie · as María
Garden of Delights
Movie
The Misanthrope
Movie · as Célimène
Io, Gigliola
TV · 1 ep
Made in Italy
Movie · as Monica (segment "1 'Usi e costumi', episode 3")
The Camp Followers
Movie · as Toula
The Unvanquished
Movie · as Dominique Servet
Weeping for a Bandit
Movie · as María Jerónima
The Four Days of Naples
Movie · as Maria
Paris Pick-Up
Movie · as Marthe Dravet
Conquered City
Movie · as Lelia Mendores
The Colossus of Rhodes
Movie · as Diala
A Difficult Life
Movie · as Elena Pavinato
Dreams Die at Dawn
Movie · as Anna Miklos
L'Avventura
Movie · as Anna
From a Roman Balcony
Movie · as Freya
Resurrection
Movie · as Maria Pawlowa
I sogni nel cassetto
Movie · as Lucia Moretti
Forbidden
Movie · as Agnese Barras