Lea Massari
ActingAlso Known As
Léa Massari, Anna Maria Massatani, Леа Массари
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
(55 total)
L'Avventura
as Anna
The Night Caller
as Norah Elmer
The Things of Life
as Catherine Bérard
The Colossus of Rhodes
as Diala
Murmur of the Heart
as Clara Chevalier
Indian Summer
as Monica
A Difficult Life
as Elena Pavinato
Christ Stopped at Eboli
as Luisa Levi
The Meetings of Anna
as Anna's mother
The Seventh Target
as Nelly
The Four Days of Naples
as Maria
The Silent One
as Maria
Allonsanfan
as Charlotte
The Camp Followers
as Toula
The Unvanquished
as Dominique Servet
And Hope to Die
as Sugar
Made in Italy
as Monica (segment "1 'Usi e costumi', episode 3")
I Want Him Dead
as Aloma
A Dog Called... Vengeance
as Muriel
From a Roman Balcony
as Freya
TV Shows
(6 total)
The Brothers Karamazov
as Agrafena Aleksàndrovna
Anna Karenina
as Anna Karenina
Midi Première
as Self
Spécial cinéma
as Self