Lea Massari
Acting • Born 1933-06-30 – Died 2025-06-23
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.
Filmography
61 credits
Resurrection
Movie • 1958
Maria Pawlowa
The Things of Life
Movie • 1970
Catherine Bérard
Devil's Ransom
Movie • 1971
Britt
L'Avventura
Movie • 1960
Anna
The Night Caller
Movie • 1975
Norah Elmer
Christ Stopped at Eboli
Movie • 1979
Luisa Levi
Murmur of the Heart
Movie • 1971
Clara Chevalier
The Colossus of Rhodes
Movie • 1961
Diala
The Four Days of Naples
Movie • 1962
Maria
Made in Italy
Movie • 1965
Monica (segment "1 'Usi e costumi', episode 3")
Allonsanfan
Movie • 1974
Charlotte
The Camp Followers
Movie • 1965
Toula
The Silent One
Movie • 1973
Maria
The Seventh Target
Movie • 1984
Nelly
A Difficult Life
Movie • 1961
Elena Pavinato
And Hope to Die
Movie • 1972
Sugar
Monica Vitti, une étoile dans la nuit
Movie • 2017
Self (archive footage)
The Meetings of Anna
Movie • 1978
Anna's mother
Garden of Delights
Movie • 1967
The Probability Factor
Movie • 1976
Gloria
I Want Him Dead
Movie • 1968
Aloma
Paris Pick-Up
Movie • 1962
Marthe Dravet
The Woman in Blue
Movie • 1973
Aurélie
A Dog Called... Vengeance
Movie • 1977
Muriel
The Misanthrope
Movie • 1967
Célimène
The Unvanquished
Movie • 1964
Dominique Servet
Impossible Object
Movie • 1973
Hippolyta
The Son
Movie • 1973
Maria
Dreams Die at Dawn
Movie • 1961
Anna Miklos
I sogni nel cassetto
Movie • 1957
Lucia Moretti
From a Roman Balcony
Movie • 1960
Freya
Chi dice donna, dice donna
Movie • 1976
Gilbert
Faces of Love
Movie • 1977
Cecilia
Journey of Love
Movie • 1990
Zaira
Forbidden
Movie • 1955
Agnese Barras
Secrets Secrets
Movie • 1985
Marta
Conquered City
Movie • 1962
Lelia Mendores
Antonio Gramsci: The Days of Prison
Movie • 1977
Tania
Weeping for a Bandit
Movie • 1964
María Jerónima
Edipo Re
Movie • 1977
Iocasta
Paolo e Francesca
Movie • 1971
Sale rêveur
Movie • 1978
Joséphe
Le Divorcement
Movie • 1979
Rosa
La Flambeuse
Movie • 1981
Louise
Sarah
Movie • 1983
Carla Angelli
Céleste
Movie • 1970
Hélène
Indian Summer
Movie • 1972
Monica
Bloody Murder
Movie • 1974
Helene Noblet
Return to Lisca Bianca Island
Movie • 1983
Anna (voice) (archive footage)
Il était une fois Sergio Leone
Movie • 2014
Self
Stream Line
Movie • 1976
Amanda Treves
Volver a vivir
Movie • 1968
María
Una donna spezzata
Movie • 1988
Violette & Francois
Movie • 1977
Cécile Levene
Morte di un bandito
Movie
Santa
Anna Karenina
TV • 1974
Anna Karenina
The Brothers Karamazov
TV • 1969
Agrafena Aleksàndrovna
Spécial cinéma
TV • 1974
Self
Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
TV • 1975
Self
Midi trente
TV • 1972
Self
Midi Première
TV • 1975
Self