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Italian actress and singer (born 1933)

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Lea Massari
Massari in the movie L'Avventura (1960)
Born	Anna Maria Massetani (1933-06-30) 30 June 1933 (age 91) Rome, Kingdom of Italy
Occupations	Actress singer
Years active	1954–1990
Spouse	Carlo Bianchini (m. 1963; div. 2004)

Anna Maria Massetani (born 30 June 1933), known professionally as Lea Massari, is an Italian actress and singer.

Massetani was born in Rome and studied architecture in Switzerland. She adopted her stage name at the age of 22, after the sudden death of her fiancé Leo.

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 Christ Stopped at Eboli (Cristo si è fermato a Eboli, 1979), .

Partial filmography

Proibito (1955) – Agnese Barras
Dreams in a Drawer (1957) – Lucia Moretti
Resurrection (1958) – Marja Pawlowna
L'avventura (1960) – Anna
From a Roman Balcony (1960) – Freja
Il Colosso di Rodi (1961) – Diala
A Difficult Life (1961) – Elena Pavinato
Morte di un bandito (1961) – Santa
Dreams Die at Dawn (1961) – Anna Miklos
Le Monte-charge (1962) – Marthe Dravet
The Four Days of Naples (1962) – Maria (uncredited)
The Captive City (1962) – Lelia Mendores
Weeping for a Bandit (1964) – María Jerónima
L'Insoumis (1964) – Dominique Servet
La coda del diavolo (1964)
Le Soldatesse (1965) – Toula Demantritza
Made in Italy (1965) – Monica (segment "1 'Usi e costumi', episode 3")
Il giardino delle delizie (1967) – Carlo's mistress
Volver a vivir (1968) – María
I Want Him Dead (1968) – Aloma
Les Choses de la vie (1970) – Catherine Bérard
Céleste (1970) – Hélène
Senza via d'uscita (1970) – Britt
Murmur of the Heart (1971) – Clara Chevalier
Paolo e Francesca (1971)
And Hope to Die (1972) – Sugar
Indian Summer (1972) – Monica
La Femme en bleu (1973) – Aurélie
Le Silencieux [fr] (1973) – Maria Menela
Le Fils [fr] (1973) – Maria
Story of a Love Story (1973) – Woman
La Main à couper [fr] (1974) – Hélène Noblet
Allonsanfàn (1974) – Charlotte
Peur sur la ville (1975) – Nora Elmer
Chi dice donna dice donna (1976) – Gilbert (segment "Papa e maman")
L'Ordinateur des pompes funèbres [fr] (1976) – Gloria
La linea del fiume (1976) – Amanda Treves
Violette et François [fr] (1977) – Mère de François
Repérages (1977) – Cecilia
El perro (1977) – Muriel
Antonio Gramsci: The Days of Prison (1977) – Tania
Dirty Dreamer (1978) – Joséphe
Les Rendez-vous d'Anna (1978) – La mère d'Anna
Christ Stopped at Eboli (1979) – Luisa Levi
Le Divorcement (1979) – Rosa
La Flambeuse (1981) – Louise
Sarah [fr] (1983) – Carla Angelli
La Septième Cible [fr] (1984) – Nelly
Segreti segreti (1984) – Marta, Laura's Mother
Viaggio d'amore (1990) – Zaira (final film role)

References

Gosetti, Giorgio (29 June 2024). "Lea Massari, il compleanno di un'antidiva ribelle" (in Italian). ANSA. Retrieved 15 July 2024.
Monahan, Mark (9 March 2002). "Film-makers on film: Wes Anderson". The Daily Telegraph. London. Retrieved 27 November 2009.
"The Colossus of Rhodes". The Sydney Morning Herald. 23 October 2006. Retrieved 27 November 2009.
"Cannes Film Festival Goes on Despite Bombing ". St. Petersburg Times. 10 May 1975. Retrieved 27 November 2009.

External links

Lea Massari at IMDb

v t e Nastro d'Argento Award for Best Supporting Actress
1946–1970	Anna Magnani (1946) Ave Ninchi (1947) Vivi Gioi (1948) Giulietta Masina (1949) Giulietta Masina (1951) Elisa Cegani (1954) Tina Pica (1955) Valentina Cortese (1956) Marisa Merlini (1957) Franca Marzi (1958) Dorian Gray (1959) Cristina Gaioni (1960) Didi Perego (1961) Monica Vitti (1962) Regina Bianchi (1963) Sandra Milo (1964) Tecla Scarano (1965) Sandra Milo (1966) Olga Villi (1967) Maria Grazia Buccella (1968) Pupella Maggio (1969) Not awarded (1970)
1971–1990	Francesca Romana Coluzzi (1971) Marina Berti / Silvana Mangano (1972) Lea Massari (1973) Adriana Asti (1974) Giovanna Ralli (1975) Maria Teresa Albani (1976) Adriana Asti (1977) Virna Lisi (1978) Lea Massari (1979) Stefania Sandrelli (1980) Ida Di Benedetto (1981) Claudia Cardinale (1982) Virna Lisi (1983) Monica Scattini (1984) Marina Confalone (1985) Isa Danieli (1986) Ottavia Piccolo (1987) Elena Sofia Ricci (1988) Stefania Sandrelli (1989) Nancy Brilli (1990)
1991–2010	Zoe Incrocci (1991) Ilaria Occhini (1992) Paola Quattrini (1993) Milena Vukotic (1994) Virna Lisi (1995) Regina Bianchi (1996) Lucia Poli (1997) Mimma De Rosalia / Maria Aliotta / Annamaria Confalone / Adele Aliotta / Francesca Di Cesare / Eleonora Teriaca / Concetta Alfano / Antonia Uzzo (1998) Stefania Sandrelli (1999) Marina Massironi (2000) Stefania Sandrelli (2001) Margherita Buy / Virna Lisi / Sandra Ceccarelli (2002) Monica Bellucci (2003) Margherita Buy (2004) Giovanna Mezzogiorno (2005) Angela Finocchiaro (2006) Ambra Angiolini (2007) Sabrina Ferilli (2008) Francesca Neri (2009) Isabella Ragonese / Elena Sofia Ricci / Lunetta Savino (2010)
2011–present	Carolina Crescentini (2011) Michela Cescon (2012) Sabrina Ferilli (2013) Paola Minaccioni (2014) Micaela Ramazzotti (2015) Greta Scarano (2016) Sabrina Ferilli / Carla Signoris (2017) Kasia Smutniak (2018) Marina Confalone (2019) Valeria Golino (2020) Sara Serraiocco (2021) Luisa Ranieri (2022) Barbora Bobuľová (2023) Isabella Rossellini (2024)

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