Lea Massari
Birthday
1933/06/30
Day of death
2025/06/23 (92 years old)
Gender
Female
Place of Birth
Roma, Lazio, Italy
Also know as
Léa Massari, Anna Maria Massatani, Леа Массари
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). ...Read more
Acting
(1958) Resurrection
as Maria Pawlowa
(1970) The Things of Life
as Catherine Bérard
(1971) Devil's Ransom
as Britt
(1960) L'Avventura
as Anna
(1975) The Night Caller
as Norah Elmer
(1979) Christ Stopped at Eboli
as Luisa Levi
(1971) Murmur of the Heart
as Clara Chevalier
(1961) The Colossus of Rhodes
as Diala
(1962) The Four Days of Naples
as Maria
(1965) Made in Italy
as Monica (segment "1 'Usi e costumi', episode 3")
(1974) Allonsanfan
as Charlotte
(1965) The Camp Followers
as Toula
(1973) The Silent One
as Maria
(1984) The Seventh Target
as Nelly
(1961) A Difficult Life
as Elena Pavinato
(1972) And Hope to Die
as Sugar
(2017) Monica Vitti, une étoile dans la nuit
as Self (archive footage)
(1978) The Meetings of Anna
as Anna's mother
(1967) Garden of Delights
as ---
(1976) The Probability Factor
as Gloria
(1968) I Want Him Dead
as Aloma
(1962) Paris Pick-Up
as Marthe Dravet
(1973) The Woman in Blue
as Aurélie
(1977) A Dog Called... Vengeance
as Muriel
(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
(1960) From a Roman Balcony
as Freya
(1976) Chi dice donna, dice donna
as Gilbert
(1977) Faces of Love
as Cecilia
(1990) Journey of Love
as Zaira
(1955) Forbidden
as Agnese Barras
(1985) Secrets Secrets
as Marta
(1962) Conquered City
as Lelia Mendores
(1977) Antonio Gramsci: The Days of Prison
as Tania
(1964) Weeping for a Bandit
as María Jerónima
(1977) Edipo Re
as Iocasta
(1971) Paolo e Francesca
as ---
(1978) Sale rêveur
as Joséphe
(1979) Le divorcement
as Rosa
(1981) La Flambeuse
as Louise
(1983) Sarah
as Carla Angelli
(1970) Céleste
as Hélène
(1972) Indian Summer
as Monica
(1974) Bloody Murder
as Helene Noblet
(1983) Return to Lisca Bianca Island
as Anna (voice) (archive footage)
(2014) Il était une fois Sergio Leone
as Self
(1976) Stream Line
as Amanda Treves
(1968) Volver a vivir
as María
(1988) Una donna spezzata
as ---
(1977) Violette & Francois
as Cécile Levene
(1974) Anna Karenina
as Anna Karenina
(1969) The Brothers Karamazov
as Agrafena Aleksàndrovna
(1974) Spécial cinéma
as Self
(1975) Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
as Self
(1972) Midi trente
as Self
(1975) Midi Première
as Self