
Acting
Community Rating
6.1
TMDB estimate
Born
June 30, 1933
Died
June 23, 2025 (age 91)
Born in
Roma, Lazio, Italy
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.

Monica Vitti, une étoile dans la nuit
Self (archive footage)
2017

Il était une fois Sergio Leone
Self
2014
Morte di un bandito
Santa

Journey of Love
Zaira
1990
Una donna spezzata
1988

Secrets Secrets
Marta
1985

The Seventh Target
Nelly
1984

Return to Lisca Bianca Island
Anna (voice) (archive footage)
1983

Sarah
Carla Angelli
1983

La Flambeuse
Louise
1981

Le Divorcement
Rosa
1979

Christ Stopped at Eboli
Luisa Levi
1979

The Meetings of Anna
Anna's mother
1978
Sale rêveur
Joséphe
1978

Edipo Re
Iocasta
1977

A Dog Called... Vengeance
Muriel
1977

Faces of Love
Cecilia
1977

Antonio Gramsci: The Days of Prison
Tania
1977

Violette & Francois
Cécile Levene
1977

Stream Line
Amanda Treves
1976