Asia Argento

Known for ActingBorn 1975-09-20 (age 50)Rome, Lazio, Italy

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.Read more

Movies & web series

Death Has No Master

Close Up

Baku, I Love You

Rodolfo Valentino - La leggenda

Nice to Meet You, Please Don't Love Me!

Abel/Asia

Citizen Rose

Marilyn Manson: Lest We Forget

Abel Ferrara: Not Guilty

Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown

Buona la prima!

Queens of Drama

X Factor

The World of Dario Argento 3: Museum of Horrors

Money Road - Ogni tentazione ha un prezzo

Dario Argento: Panico

Queen Margot

Palombella rossa

Mafiosa

The Story

Leçon de Cinéma

Vera

Two Masters' Eyes

Les Misérables

Sogni e bisogni

Dario Argento: An Eye for Horror

Marie Antoinette

Frida. Viva la Vida

Fading Gigolo

Your Tongue On My Heart

Eurotrash

Misunderstood

Let Her Kill You

Land of the Dead

Stronger Than the Devil

Traveling Companion

From My House in Da House: A History of Rome

Era di marzo

Get Help

Perdiamoci di vista

xXx

The Church

Demons 2

The Cult of JT LeRoy

Schirkoa: In Lies We Trust

Drifters

The Last Mistress

The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things