Asia Argento

Also Known As: Asia Aria Maria Vittoria Rossa Argento, 아시아 아르젠토, Азия Ардженто, アーシア・アルジェント, آسیا آرجنتو

Biography: Asia Argento (born Aria Maria Vittoria Rossa Argento; 20 September 1975) is an Italian actress, singer, model, and director. Her mother is actress Daria di Nicolodi and her father is Dario de Argento, an Italian film director, producer and screenwriter, well known for his work in the Italian giallo genre and for his influence on modern horror and slasher movies. Her maternal great-grandfather was composer Alfredo Casella. Asia Argento started acting at the age of nine, playing a small role in a film by Sergio Citti. She also had a small part in Demons 2, a 1986 film written and produced by her father, at the age of 10, as well as its unofficial sequel, La Chiesa (The Church), when she was 14, and Trauma (1993), when she was 18. She received the David di Donatello (Italy's version of the Academy Award) for Best Actress in 1994 for her performance in Perdiamoci di vista, and again in 1996 for Compagna di viaggio, which also earned her a Grolla d'oro award. In 1998, Argento began appearing in English-language movies, such as B. Monkey and New Rose Hotel. Argento has proven her ability to work in multiple languages, adding French, with a role as Charlotte de Sauve in 1994's La Reine Margot. That same year, she made her first foray into directing, calling the shots behind the short films Prospettive and A ritroso. In 1996, she directed a documentary on her father, and in 1998 a second one on Abel Ferrara, which won her the Rome Film Festival Award. Argento directed and wrote her first movie, Scarlet Diva (2000), which her father co-produced. In 2002, she portrayed Russian undercover spy Yelena in the action film XXX alongside Vin Diesel. In 2004 she directed her second film The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things, based on a book by JT LeRoy, the pen name of Laura Albert, this time in the United States. Description above from the Wikipedia article Asia Argento, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Department: Acting

Place of Birth: Rome, Lazio, Italy

Birthday: September 20, 1975

Adult: No

Gender: Female

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Known For:

Last Days
Interstate
The Phantom of the Opera
Marie Antoinette
The Last Mistress
B. Monkey
New Rose Hotel
Land of the Dead
Scarlet Diva
xXx
Diamond 13
Transylvania
The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things
On War
Demons 2
The Church
The Keeper
Boarding Gate
The Mother of Tears
Trauma
Close Up
The Stendhal Syndrome
Go Go Tales
Queens of Drama
Love Bites
Palombella Rossa
Cavalli
Viola Kisses Everybody
Perdiamoci di vista
Cindy, the Doll Is Mine
Baciato dalla fortuna
Your Tongue On My Heart
Bits & Pieces
Drifters
Islands
Do Not Disturb
Close Friends
Dracula 3D
Qui staremo benissimo
Firmeza
The Voice Thief
Traveling Companion
The Making of Marie Antoinette
Obsessive Rythms
The Red Siren
Zoo
Condannato a nozze
Tiens ferme ta couronne
Padre Pio
Vera
Shongram
Dario Argento: An Eye for Horror
Dario Argento: Panico
Live Freaky! Die Freaky!
American Nails
Stronger Than the Devil
From My House in Da House: A History of Rome
Deep Argento
Queen Margot
Agony (L'esecutore)
The Book of Joy
Guillaume Depardieu, The Story Of An Enfant Terrible
Milady
The World of Dario Argento 3: Museum of Horrors
Abel/Asia
Agony
Nice to Meet You, Please Don't Love Me!
Friendly Fire
Alien Crystal Palace
The Making of Last Days
Abel Ferrara: Not Guilty
The Making of 'Mother of Tears'
Don't Bother to Knock
Frida. Viva la Vida
Ginostra
ÆLEKTRA
DeGenerazione
DeGenerazione
DeGenerazione
Two Masters' Eyes
Dark Glasses
Sans soleil
Schirkoa: In Lies We Trust
Let Her Kill You
Shadow
Roadrunner: A Film About Anthony Bourdain
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