1933-06-30 Rome, Italy
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.
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Monica Vitti, une étoile dans la nuit | Self (archive footage) | 2017-02-10 |
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Il était une fois Sergio Leone | Self | 2014-10-19 |
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Viaggio d'amore | Zaira | 1990-12-07 |
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Una donna spezzata | 1988-08-06 | |
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Segreti segreti | Marta | 1985-03-15 |
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La 7ème cible | Nelly | 1984-12-19 |
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Sarah | Carla Angelli | 1983-04-27 |
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Ritorno a Lisca Bianca | Anna (voice) (archive footage) | 1983-10-27 |
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La Flambeuse | Louise | 1981-05-13 |
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Le divorcement | Rosa | 1979-08-22 |
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Cristo si è fermato a Eboli | Luisa Levi | 1979-02-23 |
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Sale rêveur | Joséphe | 1978-04-04 |
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Les Rendez-vous d'Anna | Anna's mother | 1978-10-08 |
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Antonio Gramsci - i giorni del carcere | 1977-02-06 | |
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Repérages | Cecilia | 1977-11-16 |
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El Perro | Muriel | 1977-12-02 |
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Edipo Re | Iocasta | 1977-12-11 |
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Chi dice donna, dice donna | Gilbert | 1976-02-11 |
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L'Ordinateur des pompes funèbres | Gloria | 1976-04-07 |
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La linea del fiume | Amanda Treves | 1976-05-06 |
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Peur sur la ville | Norah Elmer | 1975-04-09 |
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...La Main à couper | Helene Noblet | 1974-03-06 |
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Allonsanfàn | Charlotte | 1974-09-06 |
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Le Fils | Maria | 1973-03-30 |
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Le Silencieux | Maria | 1973-02-10 |
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Story of a Love Story | Woman | 1973-05-24 |
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La Femme en bleu | Aurélie | 1973-01-14 |
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La prima notte di quiete | Monica | 1972-10-18 |
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La Course du lièvre à travers les champs | Sugar | 1972-09-15 |
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Le Souffle au cœur | Clara Chevalier | 1971-04-27 |
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Senza via d'uscita | Britt | 1971-06-18 |
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Paolo e Francesca | 1971-11-02 | |
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Les Choses de la vie | Catherine Bérard | 1970-03-13 |
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Céleste | 1970-12-10 | |
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Lo voglio morto | Aloma | 1968-06-15 |
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Volver a vivir | María | 1968-02-12 |
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Il giardino delle delizie | 1967-12-29 | |
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Il Misantropo | Célimène | 1967-01-01 |
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Made in Italy | Monica (segment "1 'Usi e costumi', episode 3") | 1965-12-22 |
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Le soldatesse | Toula | 1965-07-17 |
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Llanto por un bandido | María Jerónima | 1964-08-31 |
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L'Insoumis | Dominique Servet | 1964-09-25 |
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La città prigioniera | Lelia Mendores | 1962-12-05 |
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Le quattro giornate di Napoli | Maria | 1962-11-16 |
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Le monte-charge | Marthe Dravet | 1962-05-04 |
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I sogni muoiono all'alba | Anna Miklos | 1961-12-01 |
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Il colosso di Rodi | Diala | 1961-06-15 |
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Una vita difficile | Elena Pavinato | 1961-12-19 |
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L'avventura | Anna | 1960-09-14 |
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La giornata balorda | Freya | 1960-10-29 |
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Auferstehung | Maria Pawlowa | 1958-10-21 |
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I sogni nel cassetto | Lucia Moretti | 1957-09-01 |
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Proibito | Agnese Barras | 1955-09-23 |
