

Lea Massari
Acting
June 30, 1933
Roma, Lazio, Italy
June 23, 2025
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.
The Filmography


Return to Lisca Bianca Island

Sarah

La Flambeuse

Le divorcement

Christ Stopped at Eboli

A Dog Called... Vengeance

Faces of Love

Violette & Francois

The Probability Factor

Chi dice donna, dice donna

The Night Caller

Allonsanfan

Bloody Murder

Impossible Object

The Son

The Silent One

The Woman in Blue

Indian Summer
