Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthdate
1933-06-30
Day of Death
2025-06-23
Place of Birth
Roma, Lazio, Italy
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.
Filmography (54)
Monica Vitti, une étoile dans la nuit
2017
Il était une fois Sergio Leone
2014
Journey of Love
1990Una donna spezzata
1988
Secrets Secrets
1985
The Seventh Target
1984
Return to Lisca Bianca Island
1983
Sarah
1983
La Flambeuse
1981
Le Divorcement
1979
Christ Stopped at Eboli
1979
The Meetings of Anna
1978Sale rêveur
1978
Edipo Re
1977
