
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.

as Self (archive footage)

as Zaira

as Marta

as Nelly

as Anna (voice) (archive footage)

as Carla Angelli

as Louise

as Rosa

as Luisa Levi

as Anna's mother

as Joséphe

as Iocasta

as Muriel

as Cecilia

as Cécile Levene

as Amanda Treves

as Gloria

as Gilbert

as Norah Elmer

as Charlotte

as Helene Noblet

as Hippolyta

as Maria

as Maria

as Aurélie

as Monica

as Sugar

as Britt

as Clara Chevalier

as Hélène

as Catherine Bérard

as Aloma

as María

as Célimène

as Monica (segment "1 'Usi e costumi', episode 3")

as Toula

as Dominique Servet

as María Jerónima

as Lelia Mendores

as Maria

as Marthe Dravet

as Elena Pavinato

as Anna Miklos

as Diala

as Freya

as Anna

as Maria Pawlowa

as Lucia Moretti

as Agnese Barras

as Santa