Lea Massari
ActingAnna 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
Murmur of the Heart
Clara Chevalier
L'Avventura
Anna
Indian Summer
Monica
The Colossus of Rhodes
Diala
Allonsanfan
Charlotte
The Night Caller
Norah Elmer
The Things of Life
Catherine Bérard
A Dog Called... Vengeance
Muriel
The Silent One
Maria
The Seventh Target
Nelly
Filmography — Acting
Murmur of the Heart
Clara Chevalier
L'Avventura
Anna
Indian Summer
Monica
The Colossus of Rhodes
Diala
Allonsanfan
Charlotte
The Night Caller
Norah Elmer
The Things of Life
Catherine Bérard
A Dog Called... Vengeance
Muriel
The Silent One
Maria
The Seventh Target
Nelly
Christ Stopped at Eboli
Luisa Levi
The Meetings of Anna
Anna's mother
The Camp Followers
Toula
I Want Him Dead
Aloma
Made in Italy
Monica (segment "1 'Usi e costumi', episode 3")
Resurrection
Maria Pawlowa
And Hope to Die
Sugar
The Unvanquished
Dominique Servet
Paris Pick-Up
Marthe Dravet
Bloody Murder
Helene Noblet
Faces of Love
Cecilia
Stream Line
Amanda Treves
Chi dice donna, dice donna
Gilbert
The Son
Maria
Devil's Ransom
Britt
Conquered City
Lelia Mendores
The Woman in Blue
Aurélie
Weeping for a Bandit
María Jerónima
Impossible Object
Hippolyta
Céleste
Hélène
Le Divorcement
Rosa
The Probability Factor
Gloria
The Four Days of Naples
Maria
Journey of Love
Zaira
A Difficult Life
Elena Pavinato
Violette & Francois
Cécile Levene
Secrets Secrets
Marta
Return to Lisca Bianca Island
Anna (voice) (archive footage)
Garden of Delights
From a Roman Balcony
Freya
Volver a vivir
María
Forbidden
Agnese Barras
Antonio Gramsci: The Days of Prison
Tania
Edipo Re
Iocasta
Sarah
Carla Angelli
La Flambeuse
Louise
I sogni nel cassetto
Lucia Moretti
Sale rêveur
Joséphe
Una donna spezzata
Dreams Die at Dawn
Anna Miklos
Monica Vitti, une étoile dans la nuit
Self (archive footage)
Il était une fois Sergio Leone
Self
The Misanthrope
Célimène
Morte di un bandito
Santa
