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