Acting · Roma, Lazio, Italy · Born June 30, 1933
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.
MovieMonica Vitti, une étoile dans la nuit
2017
as Self (archive footage)
MovieIl était une fois Sergio Leone
2014
as Self
MovieJourney of Love
1990
as Zaira
Una donna spezzata
1988
MovieSecrets Secrets
1985
as Marta
MovieThe Seventh Target
1984
as Nelly
MovieReturn to Lisca Bianca Island
1983
as Anna (voice) (archive footage)
MovieSarah
1983
as Carla Angelli
MovieLa Flambeuse
1981
as Louise
MovieLe Divorcement
1979
as Rosa
MovieChrist Stopped at Eboli
1979
as Luisa Levi
MovieThe Meetings of Anna
1978
as Anna's mother
Sale rêveur
1978
as Joséphe
MovieEdipo Re
1977
as Iocasta
MovieA Dog Called... Vengeance
1977
as Muriel
MovieFaces of Love
1977
as Cecilia
MovieAntonio Gramsci: The Days of Prison
1977
as Tania
MovieViolette & Francois
1977
as Cécile Levene
MovieStream Line
1976
as Amanda Treves
MovieThe Probability Factor
1976
as Gloria
MovieChi dice donna, dice donna
1976
as Gilbert
MovieThe Night Caller
1975
as Norah Elmer
TVLes Rendez-vous du dimanche
1975
as Self
TVMidi Première
1975
as Self
TVAnna Karenina
1974
as Anna Karenina
TVSpécial cinéma
1974
as Self
MovieAllonsanfan
1974
as Charlotte
MovieBloody Murder
1974
as Helene Noblet
MovieImpossible Object
1973
as Hippolyta
MovieThe Son
1973
as Maria
MovieThe Silent One
1973
as Maria
MovieThe Woman in Blue
1973
as Aurélie
MovieIndian Summer
1972
as Monica
MovieAnd Hope to Die
1972
as Sugar
TVMidi trente
1972
as Self
MoviePaolo e Francesca
1971
MovieDevil's Ransom
1971
as Britt
MovieMurmur of the Heart
1971
as Clara Chevalier
MovieCéleste
1970
as Hélène
MovieThe Things of Life
1970
as Catherine Bérard
TVThe Brothers Karamazov
1969
as Agrafena Aleksàndrovna
MovieI Want Him Dead
1968
as Aloma
MovieVolver a vivir
1968
as María
MovieGarden of Delights
1967
The Misanthrope
1967
as Célimène
MovieMade in Italy
1965
as Monica (segment "1 'Usi e costumi', episode 3")
MovieThe Camp Followers
1965
as Toula
MovieThe Unvanquished
1964
as Dominique Servet
MovieWeeping for a Bandit
1964
as María Jerónima
MovieConquered City
1962
as Lelia Mendores
MovieThe Four Days of Naples
1962
as Maria
MovieParis Pick-Up
1962
as Marthe Dravet
MovieA Difficult Life
1961
as Elena Pavinato
MovieDreams Die at Dawn
1961
as Anna Miklos
MovieThe Colossus of Rhodes
1961
as Diala
MovieFrom a Roman Balcony
1960
as Freya
MovieL'Avventura
1960
as Anna
MovieResurrection
1958
as Maria Pawlowa
MovieI sogni nel cassetto
1957
as Lucia Moretti
MovieForbidden
1955
as Agnese Barras
Morte di un bandito
as Santa
