
Lahir 30 Jun 1933 · 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.

Viaggio d'amore
1990

Segreti segreti
1985

La 7ème cible
1984

Sarah
1983

Ritorno a Lisca Bianca
1983

La Flambeuse
1981

Cristo si è fermato a Eboli
1979

Le Divorcement
1979

Les Rendez-vous d'Anna
1978

Repérages
1977

El Perro
1977

Violette et François
1977

Antonio Gramsci - i giorni del carcere
1977

L'Ordinateur des pompes funèbres
1976

Chi dice donna, dice donna
1976

La linea del fiume
1976

Peur sur la ville
1975

Anna Karenina
1974

Allonsanfàn
1974

...La Main à couper
1974

Le Silencieux
1973

La Femme en bleu
1973

L'Impossible Objet
1973

Le Fils
1973

La prima notte di quiete
1972

La Course du lièvre à travers les champs
1972

Le Souffle au cœur
1971

Paolo e Francesca
1971

Senza via d'uscita
1971

Les Choses de la vie
1970

Céleste
1970

I fratelli Karamazov
1969

Lo voglio morto
1968

Volver a vivir
1968

Il giardino delle delizie
1967

Le soldatesse
1965

Made in Italy
1965

L'Insoumis
1964

Llanto por un bandido
1964

La città prigioniera
1962

Le quattro giornate di Napoli
1962

Le Monte-charge
1962

Il colosso di Rodi
1961

Una vita difficile
1961

I sogni muoiono all'alba
1961

L'avventura
1960

La giornata balorda
1960

Auferstehung
1958

I sogni nel cassetto
1957

Proibito
1955