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Lea Massari
ActorBorn June 30, 1933 (91 years)
Anna 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
Filmography
| 2017 | Archaeology of a Set: Return to Lisca Bianca · as Anna (archive Footage) (uncredited) |
| 1990 | Viaggio d'amore · as Zaira |
| 1985 | Segreti segreti · as Marta |
| 1984 | La 7ème cible · as Nelly |
| 1979 | Christ Stopped at Eboli · as Luisa Levi |
| 1978 | Meetings with Anna · as Anna's Mother |
| 1977 | A Dog Called... Vengeance · as Muriel |
| 1977 | Faces of Love · as Cecilia |
| 1977 | Violette & François · as Mère De François |
| 1977 | |
| 1976 | The Probability Factor · as Gloria |
| 1976 | Chi dice donna dice donna · as Gilbert |
| 1975 | The Night Caller · as Norah Elmer |
| 1974 | Anna Karenina (TV Series) · as Anna Karenina |
| 1974 | Allonsanfan · as Charlotte |
| 1974 | Bloody Murder · as Helene Noblet |
| 1973 | Story of a Love Story · as Hippolyta |
| 1973 | The Son · as Maria |
| 1973 | Escape to Nowhere · as Maria |
| 1973 | The Woman in Blue · as Aurélie |
| 1972 | Indian Summer · as Monica |
| 1972 | ...And Hope to Die · as Sugar |
| 1971 | |
| 1971 | Devil's Ransom · as Britt |
| 1971 | Murmur of the Heart · as Clara Chevalier |
| 1970 | The Things of Life · as Catherine Bérard |
| 1969 | I fratelli Karamazov (TV Series) · as Agrafena Aleksàndrovna |
| 1968 | I Want Him Dead · as Aloma |
| 1968 | Volver a vivir · as María |
| 1967 | |
| 1967 | The fiancés (TV Series) · as La Signora Di Monza |
| 1965 | Made in Italy · as Monica (segment "1 'usi E Costumi', Episode 3") |
| 1965 | The Camp Followers · as Toula |
| 1964 | The Unvanquished · as Dominique Servet |
| 1964 | Weeping for a Bandit · as María Jerónima |
| 1962 | Conquered City · as Lelia Mendores |
| 1962 | The Four Days of Naples · as Maria |
| 1962 | Paris Pick-Up · as Marthe Dravet |
| 1961 | A Difficult Life · as Elena Pavinato |
| 1961 | The Colossus of Rhodes · as Diala |
| 1960 | From a Roman Balcony · as Freya |
| 1960 | L'Avventura · as Anna |
| 1958 | Auferstehung · as Maria Pawlowa |
| 1958 | Capitan Fracassa (TV Series) · as Isabella |
| 1957 | I sogni nel cassetto · as Lucia Moretti |
| 1955 | Forbidden · as Agnese Barras |