Lea Massari

Known for ActingBorn 1933-06-30Died 2025-06-23Roma, Lazio, Italy

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.Read more

Movies & web series

Journey of Love

Paolo e Francesca

Dreams Die at Dawn

Spécial cinéma

The Brothers Karamazov

Sale rêveur

Midi Première

Volver a vivir

Monica Vitti, une étoile dans la nuit

Le Divorcement

A Difficult Life

Resurrection

I sogni nel cassetto

Indian Summer

The Four Days of Naples

L'Avventura

Secrets Secrets

The Silent One

Christ Stopped at Eboli

The Night Caller

The Things of Life

The Meetings of Anna

Stream Line

Devil's Ransom

Murmur of the Heart

Céleste

Antonio Gramsci: The Days of Prison

Allonsanfan

Forbidden

The Camp Followers

Paris Pick-Up

The Unvanquished

From a Roman Balcony

And Hope to Die

I Want Him Dead

Chi dice donna, dice donna

Faces of Love

Violette & Francois

The Seventh Target

Sarah

Made in Italy

Les Rendez-vous du dimanche

Midi trente

Conquered City

Garden of Delights

Anna Karenina

The Colossus of Rhodes

Weeping for a Bandit