1933-06-30 Roma, Lazio, Italy
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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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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Ritorno a Lisca Bianca | Anna (voice) (archive footage) | 1983-10-28 |
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Sarah | Carla Angelli | 1983-04-27 |
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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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Repérages | Cecilia | 1977-11-16 |
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El Perro | Muriel | 1977-12-02 |
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Violette et François | Cécile Levene | 1977-03-17 |
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Antonio Gramsci - i giorni del carcere | Tania | 1977-09-22 |
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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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La linea del fiume | Amanda Treves | 1976-05-06 |
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L'Ordinateur des pompes funèbres | Gloria | 1976-04-07 |
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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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L'Impossible Objet | Hippolyta | 1973-05-24 |
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La Femme en bleu | Aurélie | 1973-01-14 |
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Le Silencieux | Maria | 1973-02-10 |
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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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Senza via d'uscita | Britt | 1971-06-18 |
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Le Souffle au cœur | Clara Chevalier | 1971-04-27 |
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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 | Hélène | 1970-12-10 |
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Volver a vivir | María | 1968-02-12 |
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Lo voglio morto | Aloma | 1968-06-15 |
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Il Misantropo | Célimène | 1967-01-01 |
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Il giardino delle delizie | 1967-12-29 | |
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Le soldatesse | Toula | 1965-07-17 |
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Made in Italy | Monica (segment "1 'Usi e costumi', episode 3") | 1965-12-22 |
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L'Insoumis | Dominique Servet | 1964-09-25 |
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Llanto por un bandido | María Jerónima | 1964-08-31 |
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Le Monte-charge | Marthe Dravet | 1962-05-04 |
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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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Il colosso di Rodi | Diala | 1961-06-15 |
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Una vita difficile | Elena Pavinato | 1961-12-19 |
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I sogni muoiono all'alba | Anna Miklos | 1961-12-01 |
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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 |
