Asia Argento

Acting · 3.1 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

Drifters

20115.8

Stronger Than the Devil

20265.2

Dracula 3D

20123.5

Queen Margot

19947.2

The Stendhal Syndrome

19965.5

The Last Mistress

20075.8

Dark Glasses

20224.7

The Church

19896.1

Shadow

2017

Scarlet Diva

20004.7

Trauma

19935.8

Demons 2

19866.1

Last Days

20055.6

The Phantom of the Opera

19984.7

New Rose Hotel

19995.3

Milady

20044.0

Boarding Gate

20075.0

Go Go Tales

20085.7

Padre Pio

20235.0

DeGenerazione

19945.9

The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things

20045.8

B. Monkey

19995.8

The Red Siren

20025.3

The Keeper

20044.5

Tiens ferme ta couronne

2026

Palombella rossa

19897.2

Do Not Disturb

20124.3

Zoo

19885.3

Shongram

2019

Diamond 13

20095.2

Abel/Asia

19989.0

Let Her Kill You

20236.1

Interstate

20245.0

Close Up

20129.5

Queens of Drama

20247.4

The Making of Marie Antoinette

20075.0

The Mother of Tears

20074.5

Baku, I Love You

20159.0

Schirkoa: In Lies We Trust

20245.7

Cavalli

20114.0

Bits & Pieces

19965.0

Live Freaky! Die Freaky!

20064.1

Ginostra

20034.4

The Cult of JT LeRoy

20145.8

Dario Argento: Panico

20246.9

Love Bites

20014.8

Death Has No Master

2027

Qui staremo benissimo

2025

On War

20084.9

Armony

2026

Two Masters' Eyes

20037.0

American Nails

2026

Alien Crystal Palace

20182.7

Friendly Fire

20063.5

Condemned to Be Wed

19934.5

The World of Dario Argento 3: Museum of Horrors

19977.5

Get Help

20255.9

Vera

20236.8

Transylvania

20065.6

Close Friends

19925.4

Frida. Viva la Vida

20196.5

Without Sun

20214.0

Baciato dalla fortuna

20114.9

The Book of Joy

2025

Viola Kisses Everybody

19985.3

Dario Argento: An Eye for Horror

20016.8

Deep Argento

20233.0

Perdiamoci di vista

19946.1

Agony

20172.8

Your Tongue On My Heart

19996.5

Abel Ferrara: Not Guilty

20038.0

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

20049.0

Obsessive Rhythms

20145.3

Don't Bother to Knock

2006

The Making of Last Days

2004

Cindy, the Doll Is Mine

20055.1

How Dark My Love

2025

Traveling Companion

19966.3

From My House in Da House: A History of Rome

20216.0

Firmeza

2012

Islands

20115.7

The Making of 'Mother of Tears'

20084.0

The Voice Thief

20134.7

Guillaume Depardieu, The Story Of An Enfant Terrible

2017

Things That Happen

20263.0