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Lea Massari

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.

19 movies
RankingYear
The Adventure
  9.45
1. The Adventure (1960)
Murmur of the Heart
  7.60
2. Murmur of the Heart (1971)
Christ Stopped at Eboli
  7.44
3. Christ Stopped at Eboli (1979)
The Professor
  7.10
4. The Professor (1972)
A Difficult Life
  7.09
5. A Difficult Life (1961)
The Four Days of Naples
  6.91
6. The Four Days of Naples (1962)
The Meetings of Anna
  6.72
7. The Meetings of Anna (1978)
Women at War
  6.53
8. Women at War (1965)
The Unvanquished
  6.41
9. The Unvanquished (1964)
From a Roman Balcony
  6.24
10. From a Roman Balcony (1960)
Allonsanfan
  6.06
11. Allonsanfan (1974)
The Silent One
  5.90
12. The Silent One (1973)
Weeping for a Bandit
  5.65
13. Weeping for a Bandit (1964)
Violette & François
  5.64
14. Violette & François (1977)
The Colossus of Rhodes
  5.63
15. The Colossus of Rhodes (1961)
And Hope to Die
  5.63
16. And Hope to Die (1972)
The Woman in Blue
  5.62
17. The Woman in Blue (1973)
The Seventh Target
  5.56
18. The Seventh Target (1984)
Made in Italy
  4.56
19. Made in Italy (1965)