Lea Massari

Lea Massari

Birth name: Anna Maria Massetani
Born: June 30, 1933
Age: 91
Birthplace: Rome, Italy
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Biography

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

She was born Anna Maria Massetani in Rome, but changed her name to Lea Massari when she was 22, after the death of her fiancé Leo. She studied architecture in Switzerland.

Massari become 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).

She worked both in 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).

She was member of the jury at the Cannes Film Festival in 1975.

After appearing in Francesco Rosi's Christ Stopped at Eboli (Cristo si è fermato a Eboli, 1979), she won the Nastro d'Argento Best supporting Actress award.

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Filmography

  • Dreams in a Drawer (1957)
  • From a Roman Balcony (1960)
  • L'avventura (1960)
  • A Difficult Life (1961)
  • Il Colosso di Rodi (1961)
  • The Four Days of Naples (1962)
  • L'Insoumis (1964)
  • Weeping for a Bandit (1964)
  • Des Filles pour l'armée (1965)
  • Les Choses de la vie (1970)
  • Murmur of the Heart (1971)
  • And Hope to Die (1972)
  • La prima notte di quiete (1972)
  • La Femme en bleu (1973)
  • Le Fils (fr) (1973)
  • Le Silencieux (fr) (1973)
  • Allonsanfàn (1974)
  • La Main à couper (fr) (1974)
  • Peur sur la ville (1975)
  • L'Ordinateur des pompes funèbres (fr) (1976)
  • Violette et François (fr) (1977)
  • Repérages (1977)
  • Antonio Gramsci: The Days of Prison (1977)
  • Dirty Dreamer (1978)
  • Les Rendez-vous d'Anna (1978)
  • Le Divorcement (1979)
  • El perro (1979)
  • Christ Stopped at Eboli (1979)
  • La Flambeuse (1981)
  • Sarah (fr) (1983)
  • La Septième Cible (fr) (1984)
  • Segreti segreti (1984)

[ Source: Wikipedia ]


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