Lea Massari
Born in Roma, Lazio, Italy — Jun 30 1933• Died Jun 23 2025
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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 inc…
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Midi Première
Self
Midi trente
Self
L'Avventura
Anna
Murmur of the Heart
Clara Chevalier
The Colossus of Rhodes
Diala
Indian Summer
Monica
The Seventh Target
Nelly
Christ Stopped at Eboli
Luisa Levi
Anna Karenina
Anna Karenina
And Hope to Die
Sugar
A Dog Called... Vengeance
Muriel
The Things of Life
Catherine Bérard
The Silent One
Maria
Conquered City
Lelia Mendores
The Brothers Karamazov
Agrafena Aleksàndrovna
Paris Pick-Up
Marthe Dravet
The Unvanquished
Dominique Servet
The Probability Factor
Gloria
The Night Caller
Norah Elmer
The Meetings of Anna
Anna's mother
Allonsanfan
Charlotte
I Want Him Dead
Aloma
Edipo Re
Iocasta
Sarah
Carla Angelli
Impossible Object
Hippolyta
Secrets Secrets
Marta
Bloody Murder
Helene Noblet
The Camp Followers
Toula
Made in Italy
Monica (segment "1 'Usi e costumi', episode 3")
Forbidden
Agnese Barras
Resurrection
Maria Pawlowa
Céleste
Hélène
Stream Line
Amanda Treves
Volver a vivir
María
The Woman in Blue
Aurélie
Le Divorcement
Rosa
The Four Days of Naples
Maria
Faces of Love
Cecilia
From a Roman Balcony
Freya
Antonio Gramsci: The Days of Prison
Tania
La Flambeuse
Louise
Weeping for a Bandit
María Jerónima
Violette & Francois
Cécile Levene
Devil's Ransom
Britt
Garden of Delights
Journey of Love
Zaira
Sale rêveur
Joséphe
Una donna spezzata
Return to Lisca Bianca Island
Anna (voice) (archive footage)
A Difficult Life
Elena Pavinato
The Misanthrope
Célimène
The Son
Maria
Chi dice donna, dice donna
Gilbert
I sogni nel cassetto
Lucia Moretti
Monica Vitti, une étoile dans la nuit
Self (archive footage)
Il était une fois Sergio Leone
Self
Morte di un bandito
Santa
Dreams Die at Dawn
Anna Miklos
Paolo e Francesca