Asia Argento
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- September 20, 1975 (age 51)
- Birthplace
- Rome, Lazio, Italy
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.
Known For
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Filmography
Tiens ferme ta couronne
Movie
American Nails
Movie
A Mother For An Hour
Movie · as Daria
Death Has No Master
Movie · as Caro
Stronger Than the Devil
Movie · as Mila
Armony
Movie
Things That Happen
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Making Marie Antoinette
Movie · as Self
Qui staremo benissimo
Movie · as Kidney
The Book of Joy
Movie · as Mater
Get Help
Movie · as Benedetta Fabiani
How Dark My Love
Movie · as Self
Money Road - Ogni tentazione ha un prezzo
TV · 6 eps
R.I.P. - Roast-in-Peace
TV · 1 ep
Interstate
Movie · as Anna
Queens of Drama
Movie · as Magalie Charmer
Dario Argento: Panico
Movie · as Self
Schirkoa: In Lies We Trust
Movie · as Mermaid (voice)
The Story
TV · as Santina · 8 eps
Vera
Movie · as Asia
Deep Argento
Movie
Let Her Kill You
Movie · as Anne
Fading Gigolo
TV · as Costanza · 6 eps
Padre Pio
Movie · as Tall Man
Dark Glasses
Movie · as Rita
From My House in Da House: A History of Rome
Movie · as Self
Without Sun
Movie · as Léa
Shongram
Movie · as Sarah
Frida - Viva la vida
Movie · as Narrator (voice)
Alien Crystal Palace
Movie · as Sybille
Citizen Rose
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Guillaume Depardieu, The Story Of An Enfant Terrible
Movie · as Self
Agony
Movie · as Isidora
Shadow
Movie
Baku, I Love You
Movie · as Asia (segment "Aziya")
Obsessive Rhythms
Movie · as Margo
The Cult of JT LeRoy
Movie · as Self
Rodolfo Valentino - La leggenda
TV · as Natacha Rambova · 2 eps
The Voice Thief
Movie · as Naya
Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Close Up
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Do Not Disturb
Movie · as Monica
Dracula 3D
Movie · as Lucy
Firmeza
Movie · as Asia
Baciato dalla fortuna
Movie · as Betty
Drifters
Movie · as Beatrice Plana
Islands
Movie · as Martina
Cavalli
Movie · as Madre
Sangue caldo
TV · as Anna Rosi · 6 eps
Diamond 13
Movie · as Calhoune
On War
Movie · as Uma
Go Go Tales
Movie · as Monroe
The Making of 'Mother of Tears'
Movie · as Self
X Factor
TV · as Self - Judge · 7 eps
The Last Mistress
Movie · as Vellini
Boarding Gate
Movie · as Sandra
The Mother of Tears
Movie · as Sarah Mandy
The Making of Marie Antoinette
Movie · as Self
Buona la prima!
TV · as Suggeritrice · 1 ep
Marie Antoinette
Movie · as Comtesse du Barry
Transylvania
Movie · as Zingarina
Live Freaky! Die Freaky!
Movie · as Habagail Folger (voice)
Friendly Fire
Movie · as Grand Dame
Don't Bother to Knock
Movie · as Herself
Mafiosa
TV · as Charly · 8 eps
Last Days
Movie · as Asia
Land of the Dead
Movie · as Slack
Cindy, the Doll Is Mine
Movie · as Cindy Sherman / The model
Dream of the Dead
Movie · as Self
The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things
Movie · as Sarah
The Keeper
Movie · as Gina
Milady
Movie · as Sally La Chèvre
Nice to Meet You, Please Don't Love Me!
Movie · as Self
The Making of Last Days
Movie · as Self
Leçon de Cinéma
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Abel Ferrara: Not Guilty
Movie
Ginostra
Movie · as The Nun
Two Masters' Eyes
Movie
xXx
Movie · as Yelena
The Red Siren
Movie · as Anita
Love Bites
Movie · as Violaine Charlier
Dario Argento: An Eye for Horror
Movie · as Self
phoenix der tag
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Scarlet Diva
Movie · as Anna Battista
Les Misérables
TV · as Éponine Thénardier · 4 eps
B. Monkey
Movie · as Beatrice
New Rose Hotel
Movie · as Sandii
Your Tongue On My Heart
Movie
The Late Late Show with Craig Kilborn
TV · as Self · 1 ep
The Phantom of the Opera
Movie · as Christine Daaé
Viola Kisses Everybody
Movie · as Viola
Abel/Asia
Movie · as Self
The World of Dario Argento 3: Museum of Horrors
Movie · as Self
The Stendhal Syndrome
Movie · as Det. Anna Manni
Bits & Pieces
Movie
Traveling Companion
Movie · as Cora
Perdiamoci di vista
Movie · as Arianna Zorzi
Queen Margot
Movie · as Charlotte de Sauve
DeGenerazione
Movie · as Alessia (segment "Consegna a domicilio"), Se stessa (segment "Prospettive"), Lorna (segment "Squeak!")
Trauma
Movie · as Aura Petrescu
Condemned to Be Wed
Movie · as Olivia
Eurotrash
TV · 1 ep
Close Friends
Movie · as Simona
The Church
Movie · as Lotte
Palombella rossa
Movie · as Valentina Apicella
Zoo
Movie · as Martina
Demons 2
Movie · as Ingrid Haller
Sogni e bisogni
TV · 11 eps
Domenica In
TV · as Self · 1 ep