Lea Massari

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Female

Birthday

1933-06-30 (92 years old)

Deathday

2025-06-23

Place of Birth

Roma, Lazio, Italy

Lea Massari

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 Rodi, and international commercial films such as ...

Acting

1958

Resurrection

as Maria Pawlowa

1970

The Things of Life

as Catherine Bérard

1971

1960

1975

The Night Caller

as Norah Elmer

1979

1971

Murmur of the Heart

as Clara Chevalier

1965

Made in Italy

as Monica (segment "1 'Usi e costumi', episode 3")

1974

Allonsanfan

as Charlotte

1965

1973

1984

1961

A Difficult Life

as Elena Pavinato

1972

2017

1978

The Meetings of Anna

as Anna's mother

1968

1962

Paris Pick-Up

as Marthe Dravet

1973

1967

The Misanthrope

as Célimène

1964

The Unvanquished

as Dominique Servet

1973

Impossible Object

as Hippolyta

1973

The Son

as Maria

1961

Dreams Die at Dawn

as Anna Miklos

1957

I sogni nel cassetto

as Lucia Moretti

1977

Faces of Love

as Cecilia

1990

1955

Forbidden

as Agnese Barras

1985

1962

Conquered City

as Lelia Mendores

1964

Weeping for a Bandit

as María Jerónima

1977

Edipo Re

as Iocasta

1978

Sale rêveur

as Joséphe

1979

1981

La Flambeuse

as Louise

1983

Sarah

as Carla Angelli

1970

Céleste

as Hélène

1972

Indian Summer

as Monica

2017

Archaeology of a Set: Return to Lisca Bianca

as Anna (archive footage) (uncredited)

1974

Bloody Murder

as Helene Noblet

1983

Return to Lisca Bianca Island

as Anna (voice) (archive footage)

1976

Stream Line

as Amanda Treves

1968

1977

Violette & Francois

as Cécile Levene

Production

1988

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