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Birth name Anna Maria MassetaniNationality ItalieBirth 30 june 1933 (91 years) at Rome (
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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 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. Biography
Née Anna Maria Massetani, elle choisit son nom de scène en hommage à son fiancé, Leo Massari, mort lorsqu'elle n'avait que 22 ans. Dans la lignée d'Anna Magnani, Gina Lollobrigida, Sophia Loren et Claudia Cardinale, elle tourne une cinquantaine de films des années 1950 à 1980, essentiellement en Italie et en France sous la direction de réalisateurs de renom comme Michelangelo Antonioni, Sergio Leone, Dino Risi, Silvano Agosti, Claude Sautet, Claude Pinoteau, Pierre Granier-Deferre, Henri Verneuil ou encore Louis Malle pour lequel elle joue le rôle d'une mère incestueuse dans Le Souffle au cœur (1971).
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