
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.
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Films
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TV Shows
Known For
56 Credits
Spécial cinéma
as Self
1974

Midi Première
as Self
1975

Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
as Self
1975

Sarah
as Carla Angelli
1983

Murmur of the Heart
as Clara Chevalier
1971

Faces of Love
as Cecilia
1977

The Night Caller
as Norah Elmer
1975

L'Avventura
as Anna
1960

The Colossus of Rhodes
as Diala
1961

The Brothers Karamazov
as Agrafena Aleksàndrovna
1969

Secrets Secrets
as Marta
1985

The Things of Life
as Catherine Bérard
1970