Lea Massari
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- 30 Jun 1933
- Died
- 23 Jun 2025 (aged 91)
- Birthplace
- Roma, 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.
Known for
L'Avventura196085Pop Score out of 100
The Night Caller197569Pop Score out of 100
The Things of Life197071Pop Score out of 100
The Colossus of Rhodes196160Pop Score out of 100
Murmur of the Heart197181Pop Score out of 100
Indian Summer197269Pop Score out of 100
A Difficult Life196173Pop Score out of 100
Christ Stopped at Eboli19797.2out of 10 on TMDB
Filmography
- TBAMorte di un banditoas Santa
- 2017Monica Vitti, une étoile dans la nuitas Self (archive footage)
- 2014Il était une fois Sergio Leoneas Self
- 1990Journey of Loveas Zaira
- 1988Una donna spezzataActor · Writer
- 1985Secrets Secrets