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.
Movie | Il était une fois Sergio Leone | Self | 2014-10-19 |
Movie | Una donna spezzata | 1988-08-06 | |
Movie | Secrets Secrets | Marta | 1985-03-15 |
Movie | The Seventh Target | Nelly | 1984-12-19 |
Movie | Sarah | Carla Angelli | 1983-04-27 |
Movie | Return to Lisca Bianca Island | Anna (voice) (archive footage) | 1983-10-28 |
Movie | La Flambeuse | Louise | 1981-05-13 |
Movie | Christ Stopped at Eboli | Luisa Levi | 1979-02-23 |
Movie | Le divorcement | Rosa | 1979-08-22 |
Movie | Sale rêveur | Joséphe | 1978-04-04 |
Movie | The Meetings of Anna | Anna's mother | 1978-10-08 |
Movie | Antonio Gramsci: The Days of Prison | 1977-02-06 | |
Movie | Location Hunting | Cecilia | 1977-11-16 |
Movie | A Dog Called... Vengeance | Muriel | 1977-12-02 |
Movie | Chi dice donna, dice donna | Gilbert | 1976-02-11 |
Movie | The Undertaker Parlor Computer | Gloria | 1976-04-07 |
Movie | Stream Line | Amanda Treves | 1976-05-06 |
Movie | The Night Caller | Norah Elmer | 1975-04-09 |
Movie | Bloody Murder | Helene Noblet | 1974-03-06 |
Movie | Allonsanfan | Charlotte | 1974-09-06 |
Series | Anna Karenina | Anna Karenina | 1974-11-10 |
Movie | The Woman in Blue | Aurélie | 1973-01-14 |
Movie | The Silent One | Maria | 1973-02-10 |
Movie | The Son | Maria | 1973-03-30 |
Movie | Story of a Love Story | Woman | 1973-05-24 |
Movie | And Hope to Die | Sugar | 1972-09-15 |
Movie | Indian Summer | Monica | 1972-10-18 |
Movie | Paolo e Francesca | 1971-11-02 | |
Movie | Murmur of the Heart | Clara Chevalier | 1971-04-27 |
Movie | Devil's Ransom | Britt | 1971-06-18 |
Movie | The Things of Life | Catherine Bérard | 1970-03-13 |
Movie | Céleste | 1970-12-10 | |
Series | The Brothers Karamazov | Agrafena Aleksàndrovna | 1969-11-16 |
Movie | Volver a vivir | María | 1968-02-12 |
Movie | I Want Him Dead | Aloma | 1968-06-15 |
Movie | Garden of Delights | 1967-12-29 | |
Movie | Made in Italy | Monica (segment "1 'Usi e costumi', episode 3") | 1965-12-22 |
Movie | The Camp Followers | Toula | 1965-07-17 |
Movie | Weeping for a Bandit | María Jerónima | 1964-08-31 |
Movie | The Unvanquished | Dominique Servet | 1964-09-25 |
Movie | Conquered City | Lelia Mendores | 1962-12-05 |
Movie | Paris Pick-Up | Marthe Dravet | 1962-05-04 |
Movie | The Four Days of Naples | Maria | 1962-11-16 |
Movie | Dreams Die at Dawn | Anna Miklos | 1961-12-01 |
Movie | The Colossus of Rhodes | Diala | 1961-06-15 |
Movie | A Difficult Life | Elena Pavinato | 1961-12-19 |
Movie | L'Avventura | Anna | 1960-09-14 |
Movie | From a Roman Balcony | Freya | 1960-10-29 |
Movie | Resurrection | Maria Pawlowa | 1958-10-21 |
Movie | I sogni nel cassetto | Lucia Moretti | 1957-09-01 |
Movie | Forbidden | Agnese Barras | 1955-09-23 |