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.
The Colossus of Rhodes
Monica Vitti, une étoile dans la nuit
Made in Italy
A Difficult Life
Resurrection
The Things of Life
Devil's Ransom
L'Avventura
The Night Caller
Christ Stopped at Eboli
Murmur of the Heart
Indian Summer
Allonsanfan
The Four Days of Naples
The Seventh Target
The Silent One
The Undertaker Parlor Computer
The Camp Followers
The Meetings of Anna
Garden of Delights
