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Lea Massari
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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…
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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
as Self (archive footage)
Il était une fois Sergio Leone
as Self
Journey of Love
as Zaira
Secrets Secrets
as Marta
The Seventh Target
as Nelly
Return to Lisca Bianca Island
as Anna (voice) (archive footage)
Sarah
as Carla Angelli
La Flambeuse
as Louise
Le Divorcement
as Rosa
Christ Stopped at Eboli
as Luisa Levi
The Meetings of Anna
as Anna's mother
No Poster
Sale rêveur
as Joséphe
Edipo Re
as Iocasta
A Dog Called... Vengeance
as Muriel
Faces of Love
as Cecilia
Antonio Gramsci: The Days of Prison
as Tania
Violette & Francois
as Cécile Levene
Stream Line
as Amanda Treves
The Probability Factor
as Gloria
Chi dice donna, dice donna
as Gilbert
The Night Caller
as Norah Elmer
Allonsanfan
as Charlotte
Bloody Murder
as Helene Noblet
Impossible Object
as Hippolyta
The Son
as Maria
The Silent One
as Maria
The Woman in Blue
as Aurélie
Indian Summer
as Monica
And Hope to Die
as Sugar
Paolo e Francesca
Devil's Ransom
as Britt
Murmur of the Heart
as Clara Chevalier
Céleste
as Hélène
The Things of Life
as Catherine Bérard
I Want Him Dead
as Aloma
Volver a vivir
as María
Garden of Delights
No Poster
The Misanthrope
as Célimène
Made in Italy
as Monica (segment "1 'Usi e costumi', episode 3")
The Camp Followers
as Toula
The Unvanquished
as Dominique Servet
Weeping for a Bandit
as María Jerónima
Conquered City
as Lelia Mendores
The Four Days of Naples
as Maria
Paris Pick-Up
as Marthe Dravet
A Difficult Life
as Elena Pavinato
Dreams Die at Dawn
as Anna Miklos
The Colossus of Rhodes
as Diala
From a Roman Balcony
as Freya
L'Avventura
as Anna
Resurrection
as Maria Pawlowa
I sogni nel cassetto
as Lucia Moretti
Forbidden
as Agnese Barras
No Poster
Morte di un bandito
as Santa