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Lea Massari

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: Acting

Born: Roma, Lazio, Italy, 1933-06-30

Died: 2025-06-23

Film

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1955	Forbidden	Agnese Barras	65
2	1957	I sogni nel cassetto	Lucia Moretti	75
3	1958	Resurrection	Maria Pawlowa	60
4	1960	L'Avventura	Anna	75
5	1960	From a Roman Balcony	Freya	65
6	1961	The Colossus of Rhodes	Diala	60
7	1961	Dreams Die at Dawn	Anna Miklos	0
8	1961	A Difficult Life	Elena Pavinato	81
9	1962	Paris Pick-Up	Marthe Dravet	60
10	1962	The Four Days of Naples	Maria	75
11	1962	Conquered City	Lelia Mendores	43
12	1964	Weeping for a Bandit	María Jerónima	51
13	1964	The Unvanquished	Dominique Servet	66
14	1965	The Camp Followers	Toula	68
15	1965	Made in Italy	Monica (segment "1 'Usi e costumi', episode 3")	60
16	1967	The Misanthrope	Célimène	0
17	1967	Garden of Delights		56
18	1968	Volver a vivir	María	0
19	1968	I Want Him Dead	Aloma	61
20	1970	The Things of Life	Catherine Bérard	71
21	1970	Céleste	Hélène	0
22	1971	Murmur of the Heart	Clara Chevalier	70
23	1971	Devil's Ransom	Britt	60
24	1971	Paolo e Francesca		0
25	1972	And Hope to Die	Sugar	63
26	1972	Indian Summer	Monica	75
27	1973	The Woman in Blue	Aurélie	52
28	1973	The Silent One	Maria	72
29	1973	The Son	Maria	51
30	1973	Impossible Object	Hippolyta	49
31	1974	Bloody Murder	Helene Noblet	52
32	1974	Allonsanfan	Charlotte	67
33	1975	The Night Caller	Norah Elmer	72
34	1976	Chi dice donna, dice donna	Gilbert	57
35	1976	The Probability Factor	Gloria	36
36	1976	Stream Line	Amanda Treves	0
37	1977	Antonio Gramsci: The Days of Prison		66
38	1977	Violette & Francois	Cécile Levene	61
39	1977	Faces of Love	Cecilia	58
40	1977	A Dog Called... Vengeance	Muriel	56
41	1977	Edipo Re	Iocasta	0
42	1978	Sale rêveur	Joséphe	0
43	1978	The Meetings of Anna	Anna's mother	72
44	1979	Christ Stopped at Eboli	Luisa Levi	71
45	1979	Le divorcement	Rosa	60
46	1981	La Flambeuse	Louise	10
47	1983	Sarah	Carla Angelli	53
48	1983	Return to Lisca Bianca Island	Anna (voice) (archive footage)	49
49	1984	The Seventh Target	Nelly	58
50	1985	Secrets Secrets	Marta	69
51	1988	Una donna spezzata		0
52	1990	Journey of Love	Zaira	0
53	2014	Il était une fois Sergio Leone	Self	0
54	2017	Monica Vitti, une étoile dans la nuit	Self (archive footage)	80
55	2017	Archaeology of a Set: Return to Lisca Bianca	Anna (archive footage) (uncredited)	0

Television

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1969	The Brothers Karamazov	Agrafena Aleksàndrovna	90
2	1972	Midi trente	Self	60
3	1974	Spécial cinéma	Self	0
4	1974	Anna Karenina	Anna Karenina	25
5	1975	Midi Première	Self	100
6	1975	Les Rendez-vous du dimanche	Self	60