
Known for
Acting
Born
June 30, 1933
Birthplace
Roma, Lazio, Italy
Died
June 23, 2025 (aged 91)
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...
TBA
as Santa
2017
as Self (archive footage)
2014
1990
as Zaira
1988
Writer
1985
as Marta
1984
as Nelly
1983
as Anna (voice) (archive footage)
1983
as Carla Angelli
1981
as Louise
1979
as Rosa
1979
as Luisa Levi
1978
as Anna's mother
1978
as Joséphe
1977
as Iocasta
1977
as Muriel
1977
as Cecilia
1977
1977
as Cécile Levene
1976
as Amanda Treves
1976
as Gloria
1976
as Gilbert
1975
as Norah Elmer
1975
1975