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Lea Massari
Known for: ActingAnna 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.
Filmography 15
Murmur of the Heart
as Clara Chevalier 
L'Avventura
as Anna 
The Things of Life
as Catherine Bérard 
The Colossus of Rhodes
as Diala 
Indian Summer
as Monica 
The Night Caller
as Norah Elmer 
A Dog Called... Vengeance
as Muriel 
The Brothers Karamazov
as Agrafena Aleksàndrovna 
I Want Him Dead
as Aloma 
And Hope to Die
as Sugar 
The Meetings of Anna
as Anna's mother 
The Camp Followers
as Toula 
Christ Stopped at Eboli
as Luisa Levi 
Allonsanfan
as Charlotte 
Weeping for a Bandit
as María Jerónima