Acting credits
57
Established
Large and steady acting portfolio.
Actor
Lea Massari
Acting
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Movies: 52Series: 5
TMDB ID: 20882
IMDb ID: nm0557159
Known for: Acting
Born: June 30, 1933
Died: June 23, 2025
Age: 91
Place of birth: Roma, Lazio, Italy
Gender: Female
Adult content flag: No
Career span: 1955 - 2017
Years active: 63
Average TMDB rating: 6.95
Wikidata: Q289020
Also known 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). 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.
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Movies
Movies
Movie credits linked with Lea Massari.
8.0
Monica Vitti, une étoile dans la nuit
as Self (archive footage)
2017 Movie
Il était une fois Sergio Leone
as Self
2014 Movie
Journey of Love
as Zaira
1990 Movie
6.9
Secrets Secrets
as Marta
1985 Movie
5.8
The Seventh Target
as Nelly
1984 Movie
4.9
Return to Lisca Bianca Island
as Anna (voice) (archive footage)
1983 Movie
5.3
Sarah
as Carla Angelli
1983 Movie
1.0
La Flambeuse
as Louise
1981 Movie
6.0
Le Divorcement
as Rosa
1979 Movie
7.1
Christ Stopped at Eboli
as Luisa Levi
1979 Movie
6.9
The Meetings of Anna
as Anna's mother
1978 Movie
Sale rêveur
as Joséphe
1978 Movie
Edipo Re
as Iocasta
1977 Movie
5.4
A Dog Called... Vengeance
as Muriel
1977 Movie
5.8
Faces of Love
as Cecilia
1977 Movie
6.6
Antonio Gramsci: The Days of Prison
as Tania
1977 Movie
6.1
Violette & Francois
as Cécile Levene
1977 Movie
Stream Line
as Amanda Treves
1976 Movie
3.4
The Probability Factor
as Gloria
1976 Movie
5.7
Chi dice donna, dice donna
as Gilbert
1976 Movie
7.2
The Night Caller
as Norah Elmer
1975 Movie
6.8
Allonsanfan
as Charlotte
1974 Movie
4.8
Bloody Murder
as Helene Noblet
1974 Movie
4.3
Impossible Object
as Hippolyta
1973 Movie
Series
Series
Series credits linked with Lea Massari.
