Lea Massari
Birthday: 1933-06-30 | Place of Birth: Rome, ItalyAnna Maria Massetani better known as Lea Massari (born 30 June 1933) is 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 become 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 both in 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 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.
Known For
Acting
Role
as Anna (voice) (archive footage)
as Anna (archive footage) (uncredited)
as Zaira
as Marta
as Nelly
as Carla Angelli
as Louise
as Luisa Levi
as Rosa
as Anna's mother
as Joséphe
as Cecilia
as Cécile Levene
as Iocasta
as Amanda Treves
as Gilbert
as Gloria
as Norah Elmer
as Anna Karenina
as Charlotte
as Helene Noblet
as Aurélie
as Hippolyta
as Maria
as Maria
as Monica
as Sugar
as Clara Chevalier
