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Lea Massari

Film Actress | * 06/30/1933 (90) | Rome (Italy)
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Lea Massari (born Anna Maria Massetani; 30 June 1933) is an Italian actress and singer. Massari was born in Rome, Italy, as Anna Maria Massetani, but changed her name to Lea Massari when she was 22, after the death of her fiancé Leo. She studied architecture in Switzerland. Massari became known 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). Massari worked in both Italian and French cinema. Her career includes Sergio Leone's debut The Colossus of Rhodes (Il Colosso di Rodi, 1961) and international commercial films such as The Things of Life (Les choses de la vie, 1970). Massari was a member of the jury at the Cannes Film Festival in 1975. Massari won the Nastro d'Argento for Best Supporting Actress award for her appearance in Francesco Rosi's ()
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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.

Most frequent genres for this person: Drama | Comedies | Thriller

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Claudia and Anna join Anna's lover, Sandro, on a boat trip to a remote volcanic island. When Anna goes missing, a search is launched. In the meantime, Sandro and Claudia become involved in a romance d ...

L'Avventura

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1960 | 3.8/5 | 2h 24min
Drama, Mystery
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Silvio refuses to fight for the fascists and joins the resistance with Elena. After the war, his vitriolic newspaper articles cause him to be sentenced to imprisonment. ...

A Difficult Life

Certification unknown

1961 | 4.1/5 | 1h 58min
Comedy
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This loosely plotted coming-of-age tale follows the life of 15-year-old Laurent Chevalier as he stumbles his way over the burgeoning swell of adolescence in 1950s France. After having his first sexual ...

Murmur of the Heart

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1971 | 3.6/5 | 1h 58min
Comedy, Drama
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In Italy, the gambler and professor of poetry Daniele Dominici arrives in the seaside town of Rimini and is hired to teach for four months in the local high school replacing another teacher. His relat ...

Indian Summer

Certification unknown

1972 | 3.8/5 | 2h 12min
Drama
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Movies with Lea Massari as Actress(46)

as Zaira1990 Journey of Love
1988 Una donna spezzata
as Marta1985 Segreti segreti
as Nelly1984 The Seventh Target
as Anna (voice) (archive footage)1983 Ritorno a Lisca Bianca
as Carla Angelli1983 Sarah
as Louise1981 La Flambeuse
as Luisa Levi1979 Christ Stopped at Eboli
as Joséphe1978 Sale rêveur
as Anna's mother1978 The Meetings of Anna
as Muriel1977 A Dog Called... Vengeance
1977 Antonio Gramsci: The Days of Prison
as Cecilia1977 Location Hunting
as Gloria1976 The Undertaker Parlor Computer
as Amanda Treves1976 Stream Line
as Gilbert1976 Chi dice donna, dice donna
as Norah Elmer1975 Fear Over the City
as Charlotte1974 Allonsanfan
as Helene Noblet1974 Bloody Murder
as Aurélie1973 The Woman in Blue
as Woman1973 Story of a Love Story
as Maria1973 The Son
as Maria1973 The Silent One
as Monica1972 Indian Summer
as Sugar1972 And Hope to Die
as Britt1971 Devil's Ransom
as Clara Chevalier1971 Murmur of the Heart
as Catherine Bérard1970 The Things of Life
as María1968 Volver a vivir
as Aloma1968 I Want Him Dead
1967 Garden of Delights
as Toula1965 The Camp Followers
as Monica (segment "1 'Usi e costumi', episode 3")1965 Made in Italy
as Dominique Servet1964 The Unvanquished
as María Jerónima1964 Weeping for a Bandit
as Maria1962 The Four Days of Naples
as Marthe Dravet1962 Paris Pick-Up
as Lelia Mendores1962 Conquered City
as Diala1961 The Colossus of Rhodes
as Elena Pavinato1961 A Difficult Life
as Anna Miklos1961 I sogni muoiono all'alba
as Freya1960 From a Roman Balcony
as Anna1960 L'Avventura
as Maria Pawlowa1958 Resurrection
as Lucia Moretti1957 I sogni nel cassetto
as Agnese Barras1955 Forbidden

TV Shows/Series with Lea Massari as Actress(5)

as herself1975 Midi Première
as herself1975 Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
as Anna Karenina1974 Anna Karenina
as herself1972 Midi trente
as Agrafena Aleksàndrovna1969 The Brothers Karamazov

Movies with Lea Massari as Crew(1)

Writing/Writer1988 Una donna spezzata

Full Name: Lea Massari
Citizenship: Italy
Born: Friday, 06/30 1933 (June) in Rome (Italy) (current age: 90 years + 300 days)
Zodiac sign: Cancer (Chinese zodiac sign: Rooster)
Languages: Italian (IT)
Other names for Lea Massari (nicknames, foreign languages etc.):
"Léa Massari"
"Anna Maria Massatani"
"Леа Массари"
Lea Massari frequently works together with these people:
Piero Piccioni (7x, Crew)
Michelangelo Antonioni (6x, Crew)
Nanni Loy (6x, Crew)
Gérard Rinaldi (5x, Actor)
Valerio Zurlini (5x, Crew)
Sandro Bolchi (5x, Crew)
Renato Castellani (4x, Crew)
Cesare Seccia (4x, Crew)
Claude Pinoteau (4x, Crew)
Aldo Scavarda (4x, Crew)
Alain Cavalier (4x, Crew)
Jean-Loup Dabadie (4x, Crew)
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WatchPlayStream ID: PEOPLE:7863, Added: 05/06/2018, Last updated: 04/13/2024