Lea Massari
Acting
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
as Self (archive footage)
Age 83 (now 91)
Return to Lisca Bianca Island
as Anna (voice) (archive footage)
Age 50 (now 91)
Antonio Gramsci: The Days of Prison
as Tania
Age 44 (now 91)
Made in Italy
as Monica (segment "1 'Usi e costumi', episode 3")
Age 32 (now 91)
The Brothers Karamazov
as Agrafena Aleksàndrovna
Age 36 (now 91)Gathering insights...
Also Known As
Léa Massari, Anna Maria Massatani, Леа Массари
IMDB
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