Lea Massari

Personal Info

Known For Actor

Gender Female

Birthday 1933-06-30 (91 years old)

Place of Birth Rome, Italy

Also Known As Léa Massari, Anna Maria Massatani, Леа Массари

Lea Massari

Biography

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

Actor

2017
Archeologia del set: Ritorno a Lisca Bianca

as Anna (archive footage) (uncredited)

2017
Monica Vitti, une étoile dans la nuit

as Self (archive footage)

1990
1985
1984
1983
Return to Lisca Bianca Island

as Anna (voice) (archive footage)

1983
Sarah

as Carla Angelli

1981
La Flambeuse

as Louise

1979
1979
1978
The Meetings of Anna

as Anna's mother

1978
Sale rêveur

as Joséphe

1977
Edipo Re

as Iocasta

1977
Location Hunting

as Cecilia

1976
Stream Line

as Amanda Treves

1975
The Night Caller

as Norah Elmer

1975
1974
Allonsanfan

as Charlotte

1974
Bloody Murder

as Helene Noblet

1974
Anna Karenina

as Anna Karenina

1974
1973
The Son

as Maria

1973
1973
The Woman in Blue

as Aurélie

1972
Indian Summer

as Monica

1972
1972
Midi trente

as Self

1971
1971
Murmur of the Heart

as Clara Chevalier

1970
The Things of Life

as Catherine Bérard

1969
The Brothers Karamazov

as Agrafena Aleksàndrovna

1968
1968
Volver a vivir

as María

1967
The Misanthrope

as Célimène

1965
Made in Italy

as Monica (segment "1 'Usi e costumi', episode 3")

1965
1964
The Unvanquished

as Dominique Servet

1964
Weeping for a Bandit

as María Jerónima

1962
Conquered City

as Lelia Mendores

1962
Paris Pick-Up

as Marthe Dravet

1961
A Difficult Life

as Elena Pavinato

1961
Dreams Die at Dawn

as Anna Miklos

1960
L'Avventura

as Anna

1958
Resurrection

as Maria Pawlowa

1957
I sogni nel cassetto

as Lucia Moretti

1955
Forbidden

as Agnese Barras

Writer

1988