Lea Massari

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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).^[1]

She worked both in Italian and French Cinema. Her career includes Sergio Leone's debut Il Colosso di Rodi,^[2] and international commercial films such as Les choses de la vie.

She was member of the jury at the Cannes Film Festival in 1975.^[3]

She won Nastro d'Argento as Best Supporting Actress for her role in Francesco Rosi's Francesco Rosi Christ Stopped at Eboli.

Filmography

• 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)
• Des Filles pour l'armée (1965)
• Les Choses de la vie (1970)
• Céleste (1970)
• Murmur of the Heart (1971)
• La Course du lièvre à travers les champs (1972)
• La prima notte di quiete (1972)
• Allonsanfàn (1973)
• La Femme en bleu (1973)
• Le Fils (1973)
• Le Silencieux (1973)
• La Main à couper (1974)
• Peur sur la ville (1975)
• L'Ordinateur des pompes funèbres (1976)
• Violette et François (1977)
• Repérages (1977)
• Sale rêveur (1978)
• Les Rendez-vous d'Anna (1978)
• Le Divorcement (1979)
• Christ Stopped at Eboli (1979)
• La Flambeuse (1981)
• Sarah (1983)
• La 7ème cible (1984)

References

1. ^ "Film-makers on film: Wes Anderson". The Daily Telegraph. 9 March 2002. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/3574345/Film-makers-on-film-Wes-Anderson.html. Retrieved 27 November 2009. 
2. ^ "The Colossus of Rhodes". The Sydney Morning Herald. 23 October 2006. http://www.smh.com.au/news/tv-reviews/the-colossus-of-rhodes/2006/10/20/1160851117267.html. Retrieved 27 November 2009. 
3. ^ "Cannes Film Festival Goes On Despite Bombing .". St. Petersburg Times. 10 May 1975. http://news.google.ca/newspapers?id=XN8NAAAAIBAJ&sjid=d3kDAAAAIBAJ&pg=7358,789320&dq=lea-massari&hl=en. Retrieved 27 November 2009. 

External links

• Lea Massari at the Internet Movie Database

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