Lea Massari
Acting
Born June 30, 1933 · Roma, Lazio, Italy
Biography
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…
Known For · 40 titles
Spécial cinéma
Midi Première
Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
Midi trente
Murmur of the Heart
The Colossus of Rhodes
L'Avventura
Conquered City
Anna Karenina
Indian Summer
The Night Caller
The Things of Life
The Meetings of Anna
The Brothers Karamazov
The Seventh Target
I Want Him Dead
Secrets Secrets
And Hope to Die
Violette & Francois
Faces of Love
Made in Italy
Return to Lisca Bianca Island
Sale rêveur
The Camp Followers
A Difficult Life
Il était une fois Sergio Leone
A Dog Called... Vengeance
Christ Stopped at Eboli
The Unvanquished
Weeping for a Bandit
Paris Pick-Up
Impossible Object
The Silent One
Morte di un bandito
Sarah
Paolo e Francesca
Allonsanfan
From a Roman Balcony
The Probability Factor
The Son