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Lea Massari
3 films · 183 frames · top-billed in 2 · 1960–1979
Born 30 June 1933 · Roma, Lazio, Italy · died 23 June 2025
Anna Maria Massetani better known as Lea Massari was an Italian actress. When she was 22, she changed her name to Lea Massari after the death of her fiancé Leo. She studied architecture in Switzerland. Massari became 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 in both 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 a 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.
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 3 films · 183 frames · top-billed in 2 · 1960–1979
- David di Donatello Award for Lifetime Achievement
- Nastro d'Argento for Best Actress
- Nastro d'Argento for Best Supporting Actress
How their films are shot
Measured across 183 frames from the 3 films we hold. This is the look of the work Lea takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 3 films we hold, 68% of their frames are day, 66% natural — the look of the work Lea takes.
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Films in the library
Every poster opens that film — stills, cinematography notes and colour palette.
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