
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.

Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
TV • 1975

Spécial cinéma
TV • 1974

Midi Première
TV • 1975

Murmur of the Heart
MOVIE • 1971

L'Avventura
MOVIE • 1960

Faces of Love
MOVIE • 1977

The Things of Life
MOVIE • 1970

The Seventh Target
MOVIE • 1984

Indian Summer
MOVIE • 1972

Anna Karenina
TV • 1974

The Silent One
MOVIE • 1973

Conquered City
MOVIE • 1962

Allonsanfan
MOVIE • 1974

A Dog Called... Vengeance
MOVIE • 1977

Made in Italy
MOVIE • 1965

Sarah
MOVIE • 1983

The Brothers Karamazov
TV • 1969

The Night Caller
MOVIE • 1975