Asia Argento
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.
Known for
ActingBirthday
September 20, 1975Gender
FemaleKnown Movie Credits
100Place of birth
Rome, Lazio, ItalyAlso known as
Asia Aria Maria Vittoria Rossa Argento, 아시아 아르젠토, Азия Ардженто, アーシア・アルジェントCast credits
Last Days
AsiaMarie Antoinette
Comtesse du BarryThe Last Mistress
VelliniB. Monkey
BeatriceThe Phantom of the Opera
Christine DaaéNew Rose Hotel
SandiiDiamond 13
CalhouneLand of the Dead
SlackxXx
YelenaScarlet Diva
Anna BattistaTransylvania
ZingarinaThe Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things
SarahOn War
UmaDemons 2
Ingrid HallerThe Church
LotteThe Keeper
GinaBoarding Gate
SandraThe Mother of Tears
Sarah MandyTrauma
Aura PetrescuThe Stendhal Syndrome
Det. Anna ManniGo Go Tales
MonroeCrew credits
Scarlet Diva
Director, WriterThe Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things
Screenplay, DirectorYour Tongue On My Heart
Director, ScreenplayMisunderstood
DirectorDeGenerazione
Director, Assistant Director, Screenplay, StoryAbel/Asia
DirectorParts Unknown: Hong Kong
DirectorMarilyn Manson: Lest We Forget
DirectorÆLEKTRA
Director, WriterDon't Bother To Knock
Director, EditorDark Glasses
Associate ProducerLa Scomparsa
Director42 One Dream Rush
Director