Lea Massari
Actor
- Born
- June 30, 1933 · Roma, Lazio, Italy
- Died
- June 23, 2025 (age 91)
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
L'Avventura
September 14, 1960
The Night Caller
April 9, 1975
The Things of Life
March 13, 1970
The Colossus of Rhodes
June 15, 1961
Murmur of the Heart
April 27, 1971
Indian Summer
October 18, 1972
A Difficult Life
December 19, 1961
Christ Stopped at Eboli
February 23, 1979
The Meetings of Anna
October 8, 1978
The Seventh Target
December 19, 1984
The Silent One
February 10, 1973
The Four Days of Naples
November 16, 1962
Acting54
- 2017Monica Vitti, une étoile dans la nuit as Self (archive footage)
- 2014Il était une fois Sergio Leone as Self
- 1990Journey of Love as Zaira
- 1985Secrets Secrets as Marta
- 1984The Seventh Target as Nelly
- 1983Return to Lisca Bianca Island as Anna (voice) (archive footage)
- 1983Sarah as Carla Angelli
- 1981La Flambeuse as Louise
- 1979Le Divorcement as Rosa
- 1979Christ Stopped at Eboli