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Lea Massari
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.
As actor
Monica Vitti, une étoile dans la nuit
Il était une fois Sergio Leone
Journey of Love
Una donna spezzata
Secrets Secrets
The Seventh Target
Sarah
Return to Lisca Bianca Island
La Flambeuse
Christ Stopped at Eboli
Le Divorcement
The Meetings of Anna
Sale rêveur
A Dog Called... Vengeance
Faces of Love
Antonio Gramsci: The Days of Prison
Edipo Re
Violette & Francois
The Probability Factor
Chi dice donna, dice donna
Stream Line
The Night Caller
Allonsanfan
Bloody Murder
The Silent One
The Woman in Blue
Impossible Object
The Son
And Hope to Die
Indian Summer