Lea Massari
1933-06-30 ( 91 years old ) in Rome, Italy

Anna Maria Massetani better known as Lea Massari (born 30 June 1933) is 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 become 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 both in 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 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.

Movies

Sarah 1983-04-27
La Flambeuse 1981-05-13
Le divorcement 1979-08-22
Sale rêveur 1978-04-04
Edipo Re 1977-12-11
Faces of Love 1977-11-16
Stream Line 1976-05-06
Allonsanfan 1974-09-06
Bloody Murder 1974-03-06
The Son 1973-03-30
The Silent One 1973-02-10
Indian Summer 1972-10-18
Devil's Ransom 1971-06-18
Céleste 1970-12-10
Volver a vivir 1968-02-12
Made in Italy 1965-12-22
Conquered City 1962-12-05
Paris Pick-Up 1962-05-04
L'Avventura 1960-09-14
Resurrection 1958-10-21
Forbidden 1955-09-23