Lea Massari
Gender: Female
Born: 30th June 1933 (currently 78 years old)
Movies: Murmur of the Heart, A Difficult Life, Allonsanfàn, Il Colosso di Rodi, The Four Days of Naples, Weeping for a Bandit, La prima notte di quiete, The Woman in Blue, Missing Without Leave, Christ Stopped at Eboli, L'avventura, Le soldatesse, Les rendez-vous d'Anna, Conquered City
Anna Maria Massetani better known as Lea Massari (born 30 June 1933) is an Italian actress.
She was born Anna Maria Massetani in Rome, but 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.
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