Lea Massari
Known for: Acting
Born: June 30, 1933
Died: June 23, 2025
Place of birth: 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.
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Filmography
55 movies · 7 TV shows, newest first
8.0
Monica Vitti, une étoile dans la nuit
2017
5.0
Il était une fois Sergio Leone
2014
10.0
Journey of Love
19909.0
Una donna spezzata
1988
7.3
Secrets Secrets
1985
6.0
The Seventh Target
1984
4.9
Return to Lisca Bianca Island
1983
6.0
Sarah
1983
4.0
La Flambeuse
1981
8.0
Le Divorcement
1979
7.2
Christ Stopped at Eboli
1979
7.0
The Meetings of Anna
19789.0
Sale rêveur
1978
NR
Edipo Re
1977
5.5
A Dog Called... Vengeance
1977
6.1
Faces of Love
1977
6.9
Antonio Gramsci: The Days of Prison
1977
6.1
Violette & Francois
1977
7.0
Stream Line
1976
4.0
The Probability Factor
1976
6.3
Chi dice donna, dice donna
1976
7.2
The Night Caller
1975
6.0
Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
1975
9.0
Midi Première
1975
5.8
Anna Karenina
1974
9.5
Spécial cinéma
1974
6.9
Allonsanfan
1974
5.2
Bloody Murder
1974
4.7
Impossible Object
1973
5.5
The Son
1973
7.3
The Silent One
1973
5.4
The Woman in Blue
1973
7.5
Indian Summer
1972
6.4
And Hope to Die
1972
6.0
Midi trente
1972
10.0
Paolo e Francesca
1971
7.0
Devil's Ransom
1971
7.0
Murmur of the Heart
1971
7.0
Céleste
1970
7.1
The Things of Life
1970
9.7
The Brothers Karamazov
1969
6.3
I Want Him Dead
1968
9.0
Volver a vivir
1968
5.9
Garden of Delights
1967NR
The Misanthrope
1967
NR
Io, Gigliola
1966
6.1
Made in Italy
1965
6.7
The Camp Followers
1965
6.6
The Unvanquished
1964
5.8
Weeping for a Bandit
1964
5.5
Conquered City
1962
7.6
The Four Days of Naples
1962
6.5
Paris Pick-Up
1962
8.0
A Difficult Life
1961
10.0
Dreams Die at Dawn
1961
5.9
The Colossus of Rhodes
1961
6.6
From a Roman Balcony
1960
7.5
L'Avventura
1960
8.0
Resurrection
1958
8.0
I sogni nel cassetto
1957
7.0
Forbidden
195510.0
Morte di un bandito
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