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.
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Known for
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Yelena
X Factor
Self - Judge
Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown
Self
The Church
Lotte
Marie Antoinette
Comtesse du Barry
Fading Gigolo
Costanza
La Storia
Santina
Mafiosa
Charly
Drifters
Beatrice Plana
On War
Uma
Buona la prima!
Suggeritrice
Les Misérables
Éponine Thénardier
Land of the Dead
Slack
Queen Margot
Charlotte de Sauve
Scarlet Diva
Anna Battista
Citizen Rose
Self
DeGenerazione
Se stessa (segment "Prospettive")
DeGenerazione
Alessia (segment "Consegna a domicilio")
DeGenerazione
Lorna (segment "Squeak!")
The Red Siren
Anita
Dark Glasses
Rita
Palombella rossa
Valentina Apicella
Milady
Sally La Chèvre
Close Up
Self (archive footage)
New Rose Hotel
Sandii
Padre Pio
Tall Man
Diamond 13
Calhoune
Cavalli
Madre
The Last Mistress
Vellini
Zoo
Martina
The Stendhal Syndrome
Det. Anna Manni
Love Bites
Violaine Charlier
Last Days
Asia
The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things
Sarah
Deep Argento
Without Sun
Léa
Trauma
Aura Petrescu
Demons 2
Ingrid Haller
The Cult of JT LeRoy
Self
The Phantom of the Opera
Christine Daaé
Dracula 3D
Lucy
American Nails
Sogni e bisogni
Go Go Tales
Monroe
Bits & Pieces
Let Her Kill You
Anne
Ginostra
The Nun
Abel/Asia
Self
Sangue caldo
Anna Rosi
Dario Argento: Panico
Self
Boarding Gate
Sandra
Schirkoa: In Lies We Trust
Mermaid (voice)
B. Monkey
Beatrice
Interstate
Anna
Queens of Drama
Magalie Charmer
Do Not Disturb
Monica
Nice to Meet You, Please Don't Love Me!
Herself
Transylvania
Zingarina
The Mother of Tears
Sarah Mandy
Abel Ferrara: Not Guilty
Cindy, the Doll Is Mine
Cindy Sherman / The model
Condemned to Be Wed
Olivia
Get Help
Benedetta Fabiani
Baku, I Love You
Asia (segment "Aziya")
Agony
Isidora
Friendly Fire
Grand Dame
Money Road - Ogni tentazione ha un prezzo
Viola Kisses Everybody
Viola
The Keeper
Gina
Vera
Asia
Obsessive Rhythms
Margo
Baciato dalla fortuna
Betty
Shongram
Sarah
Two Masters' Eyes
Rodolfo Valentino - La leggenda
Natacha Rambova
Tiens ferme ta couronne
Don't Bother to Knock
Herself
From My House in Da House: A History of Rome
Self
The Making of Last Days
Herself
Live Freaky! Die Freaky!
Habagail Folger (voice)
The Making of Marie Antoinette
Self
Perdiamoci di vista
Arianna Zorzi
Shadow
Dario Argento: An Eye for Horror
Self
The World of Dario Argento 3: Museum of Horrors
Herself
Close Friends
Simona
How Dark My Love
Self
Frida. Viva la Vida
Narrator (voice)
The Book of Joy
Mater
The Voice Thief
Naya
Islands
Martina
Alien Crystal Palace
Sybille
Guillaume Depardieu, The Story Of An Enfant Terrible
Self
Stronger Than the Devil
ÆLEKTRA
Your Tongue On My Heart
The Making of 'Mother of Tears'
Self
Traveling Companion
Cora
Firmeza
Asia
Qui staremo benissimo
Kidney
The Late Late Show with Craig Kilborn
Self
Leçon de Cinéma
Self
Domenica In
Self
phoenix der tag
Self