Lea Massari

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.

Known For

Spécial cinéma

Midi Première

Les Rendez-vous du dimanche

Murmur of the Heart

L'Avventura

Indian Summer

The Night Caller

The Things of Life

All Movies (55)

• Monica Vitti, une étoile dans la nuit2017 · as Self (archive footage)
• Il était une fois Sergio Leone2014 · as Self
• Journey of Love1990 · as Zaira
• Una donna spezzata1988
• Secrets Secrets1985 · as Marta
• The Seventh Target1984 · as Nelly
• Return to Lisca Bianca Island1983 · as Anna (voice) (archive footage)
• Sarah1983 · as Carla Angelli
• La Flambeuse1981 · as Louise
• Le Divorcement1979 · as Rosa
• Christ Stopped at Eboli1979 · as Luisa Levi
• The Meetings of Anna1978 · as Anna's mother
• Sale rêveur1978 · as Joséphe
• Edipo Re1977 · as Iocasta
• A Dog Called... Vengeance1977 · as Muriel
• Faces of Love1977 · as Cecilia
• Antonio Gramsci: The Days of Prison1977 · as Tania
• Violette & Francois1977 · as Cécile Levene
• Stream Line1976 · as Amanda Treves
• The Probability Factor1976 · as Gloria
• Chi dice donna, dice donna1976 · as Gilbert
• The Night Caller1975 · as Norah Elmer
• Allonsanfan1974 · as Charlotte
• Bloody Murder1974 · as Helene Noblet
• Impossible Object1973 · as Hippolyta
• The Son1973 · as Maria
• The Silent One1973 · as Maria
• The Woman in Blue1973 · as Aurélie
• Indian Summer1972 · as Monica
• And Hope to Die1972 · as Sugar
• Paolo e Francesca1971
• Devil's Ransom1971 · as Britt
• Murmur of the Heart1971 · as Clara Chevalier
• Céleste1970 · as Hélène
• The Things of Life1970 · as Catherine Bérard
• I Want Him Dead1968 · as Aloma
• Volver a vivir1968 · as María
• Garden of Delights1967
• The Misanthrope1967 · as Célimène
• Made in Italy1965 · as Monica (segment "1 'Usi e costumi', episode 3")
• The Camp Followers1965 · as Toula
• The Unvanquished1964 · as Dominique Servet
• Weeping for a Bandit1964 · as María Jerónima
• Conquered City1962 · as Lelia Mendores
• The Four Days of Naples1962 · as Maria
• Paris Pick-Up1962 · as Marthe Dravet
• A Difficult Life1961 · as Elena Pavinato
• Dreams Die at Dawn1961 · as Anna Miklos
• The Colossus of Rhodes1961 · as Diala
• From a Roman Balcony1960 · as Freya
• L'Avventura1960 · as Anna
• Resurrection1958 · as Maria Pawlowa
• I sogni nel cassetto1957 · as Lucia Moretti
• Forbidden1955 · as Agnese Barras
• Morte di un bandito— · as Santa

All TV Shows (6)

• Les Rendez-vous du dimanche1975 · as Self
• Midi Première1975 · as Self
• Anna Karenina1974 · as Anna Karenina
• Spécial cinéma1974 · as Self
• Midi trente1972 · as Self
• The Brothers Karamazov1969 · as Agrafena Aleksàndrovna