Asia Argento
Acting
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.
Born: September 20, 1975
Place of Birth: Rome, Lazio, Italy
Known For
Filmography
as Mater
as Self
as Benedetta Fabiani
as Magalie Charmer
as Self
as Anna
as Mermaid (voice)
as Santina
as Costanza
as Tall Man
as Anne
as Asia
as Rita
as Léa
as Self - Actor (archive footage)
as Narrator (voice)
as Sarah
as Sybille
as Self
as Isidora
as Natacha Rambova
as Margo
as Naya
as Lucy
as Monica
as Self (archive footage)
as Madre
as Betty
as Beatrice Plana
as Anna Rosi
as Martina
as Calhoune
as Uma
as Self - Judge
as Sarah Mandy
as Sandra
as Vellini
as Monroe
as Suggeritrice
as Charly
as Herself
as Grand Dame
as Zingarina
as Comtesse du Barry
as Habagail Folger (voice)
as Cindy Sherman / The model
as Slack
as Asia
as Gina
as Self
as Herself
as Sally La Chèvre
as Herself
as The Nun
as Anita
as Yelena
as Self
as Violaine Charlier
as Éponine Thénardier
as Anna Battista
as Beatrice
as Sandii
as Christine Daaé
as Viola
as Self
as Cora
as Det. Anna Manni
as Alessia (segment "Consegna a domicilio")
as Se stessa (segment "Prospettive")
as Lorna (segment "Squeak!")
as Charlotte de Sauve
as Arianna Zorzi
as Olivia
as Aura Petrescu
as Simona
as Valentina Apicella
as Lotte
as Martina
as Ingrid Haller
as Self