Person
Lea Massari
Born 30 June 1933 Died 23 June 2025, aged 91 Roma, Lazio, Italy TMDB ↗
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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Movie credits
Morte di un bandito
Age: 57 Journey of Love
1990Una donna spezzata
1988
Age: 51 Secrets Secrets
1985
Age: 51 The Seventh Target
1984
Age: 50 Return to Lisca Bianca Island
1983
Age: 49 Sarah
1983
Age: 47 La Flambeuse
1981
Age: 46 Le Divorcement
1979
Age: 45 Christ Stopped at Eboli
1979
Age: 45 The Meetings of Anna
1978Sale rêveur
1978
Age: 44 Edipo Re
1977
Age: 44 A Dog Called... Vengeance
1977
Age: 44 Faces of Love
1977
Age: 44 Antonio Gramsci: The Days of Prison
1977
Age: 43 Violette & Francois
1977
Age: 42 Stream Line
1976
Age: 42 The Probability Factor
1976
Age: 42 Chi dice donna, dice donna
1976
Age: 41 The Night Caller
1975
Age: 41 Allonsanfan
1974
Age: 40 Bloody Murder
1974
Age: 39 Impossible Object
1973
Age: 39 The Son
1973
Age: 39 The Silent One
1973
Age: 39 The Woman in Blue
1973
Age: 39 Indian Summer
1972
Age: 39 And Hope to Die
1972
Age: 38 Paolo e Francesca
1971
Age: 37 Devil's Ransom
1971
Age: 37 Murmur of the Heart
1971
Age: 37 Céleste
1970
Age: 36 The Things of Life
1970
Age: 34 I Want Him Dead
1968
Age: 34 Volver a vivir
1968
Age: 34 Garden of Delights
1967The Misanthrope
1967
Age: 32 Made in Italy
1965
Age: 32 The Camp Followers
1965
Age: 31 The Unvanquished
1964
Age: 31 Weeping for a Bandit
1964
Age: 29 Conquered City
1962
Age: 29 The Four Days of Naples
1962
Age: 28 Paris Pick-Up
1962
Age: 28 A Difficult Life
1961
Age: 28 Dreams Die at Dawn
1961
Age: 27 The Colossus of Rhodes
1961
Age: 27 From a Roman Balcony
1960
Age: 27 L'Avventura
1960
Age: 25 Resurrection
1958
Age: 24 I sogni nel cassetto
1957
Age: 22 
