Asia Argento

Acting · 2.8 popularity

Age

Movies

Born: September 20, 1975
From: 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.

Works

88 films

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20026.0

Marie Antoinette

20066.7

Land of the Dead

20056.3

Dracula 3D

20123.5

Queen Margot

19947.2

Dark Glasses

20224.7

Drifters

20115.8

Scarlet Diva

20004.7

Last Days

20055.6

The Church

19896.1

The Stendhal Syndrome

19965.5

Demons 2

19866.1

The Last Mistress

20075.8

Trauma

19935.8

Go Go Tales

20085.7

The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things

20045.8

New Rose Hotel

19995.3

The Phantom of the Opera

19984.7

DeGenerazione

19945.9

Shadow

2017

Boarding Gate

20075.0

The Keeper

20044.5

Shongram

2019

Let Her Kill You

20236.1

Padre Pio

20235.0

Palombella rossa

19897.2

Cavalli

20114.0

B. Monkey

19995.8

Milady

20044.0

Tiens ferme ta couronne

2026

The Making of Marie Antoinette

20075.0

Stronger Than the Devil

20266.0

Armony

2026

Queens of Drama

20247.4

The Cult of JT LeRoy

20145.8

The Red Siren

20025.3

Zoo

19885.3

Schirkoa: In Lies We Trust

20245.7

Interstate

20245.0

Bits & Pieces

19965.0

Close Up

20129.5

Diamond 13

20095.2

Do Not Disturb

20124.3

Dario Argento: Panico

20246.9

Death Has No Master

2027

Qui staremo benissimo

2025

Abel/Asia

19989.0

Vera

20236.8

On War

20084.9

Ginostra

20034.4

Live Freaky! Die Freaky!

20064.1

The World of Dario Argento 3: Museum of Horrors

19977.5

American Nails

2026

Transylvania

20065.6

Two Masters' Eyes

20037.0

Love Bites

20014.8

Deep Argento

20233.0

The Mother of Tears

20074.5

Alien Crystal Palace

20182.7

Baku, I Love You

20159.0

Perdiamoci di vista

19946.1

Baciato dalla fortuna

20114.9

The Book of Joy

2025

Agony

20172.8

Close Friends

19925.4

Frida. Viva la Vida

20196.5

Condemned to Be Wed

19934.5

Friendly Fire

20063.5

Get Help

20255.9

Dario Argento: An Eye for Horror

20016.8

Without Sun

20214.0

Viola Kisses Everybody

19985.3

Cindy, the Doll Is Mine

20055.1

Obsessive Rhythms

20145.3

Firmeza

2012

Abel Ferrara: Not Guilty

20038.0

How Dark My Love

2025

The Making of Last Days

2004

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

20049.0

Don't Bother to Knock

2006

Your Tongue On My Heart

19996.5

The Making of 'Mother of Tears'

20084.0

Traveling Companion

19966.3

Islands

20115.7

The Voice Thief

20134.7

Guillaume Depardieu, The Story Of An Enfant Terrible

2017

From My House in Da House: A History of Rome

20216.0

Things That Happen

20263.0