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,[9] 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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Asia Argento Biography / Wiki
| Name | Asia Argento |
| Also Know | Asia Aria Maria Vittoria Rossa Argento, 아시아 아르ì í† , ÐÐ·Ð¸Ñ Ðрдженто |
| Gender | Female |
| Known For | Acting |
| Place of Birth | Rome, Lazio, Italy |
| Date of Birth | 1975-09-20 |
| Age(as in 2022) | 47 |
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Asia Argento Acting Movies
| Movie Name | Character | Release Date | Overview |
| The Last Mistress | Vellini | 2007-01-01 | Secrets, rumors and betrayals surround the upcoming marriage between a young dissolute man and virtuous woman of the French aristocracy…. |
| B. Monkey | Beatrice | 1998-11-07 | When wistful introvert Alan Furnace meets quick-witted bombshell Beatrice, he has no idea of her secret life as “B. Monkey” — the top thief-for-hire … |
| Scarlet Diva | Anna Battista | 2000-05-26 | A young Italian actress embarks on a self-destructive spree of sex, drugs and other excess while doing some soul searching to find the path for redemp… |
| Transylvania | Zingarina | 2006-09-09 | Zingarina arrives in Transylavania, accompanied by her close friend Marie and her guide and interpreter Luminitsa. She is not there only to visit this… |
| The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things | Sarah | 2004-09-15 | Young Jeremiah lives in a stable environment with loving foster parents until the day his troubled mother, Sarah, returns to claim him. Jeremiah becom… |
| On War | Uma | 2008-10-01 | Bertrand (Mathieu Amalric), a film director, is conducting research for his latest film, and asks a funeral director if he can stay back at his funera… |
| Boarding Gate | Sandra | 2007-08-22 | A sordid and complex series of events unfolds when an ex-prostitute becomes involved with a couple in Hong Kong…. |
| The Mother of Tears | Sarah Mandy | 2007-09-06 | An ancient urn is found in a cemetery outside Rome. Once opened, it triggers a series of violent incidents: robberies, rapes and murders increase dram… |
| The Stendhal Syndrome | Det. Anna Manni | 1996-01-26 | A young policewoman slowly goes insane while tracking down an elusive serial rapist/killer through Italy when she herself becomes a victim of the brut… |
| Viola bacia tutti | Viola | 1998-01-23 | Three deadbeat friends see their motorhome holiday trip hijacked by Viola, a beautiful girl on the run from the police after a robbery…. |
| Your Tongue On My Heart | 1999-08-12 | An experimental Super 8 short film directed by and starring Asia Argento, which premiered at the Locarno International Film Festival…. | |
| Cindy, the Doll Is Mine | Cindy Sherman / The model | 2005-10-01 | Cindy, the doll is mine is a short film by French director Bertrand Bonello. It stars Italian actress Asia Argento in the double role of photographer … |
| Islands | Martina | 2011-05-10 | Ivan is an undocumented immigrant from Eastern Europe who is in Italy looking for work to support himself and his father, who has a gambling addiction… |
| Do not disturb | Monica | 2012-10-03 | In this lively French remake of Humpday, best buds reunite and revive their friendship on a questionable dare. Can two straight guys really make a gay… |
| Close Friends | Simona | 1992-05-16 | Fifteen-year-old Sabrina has lived with her father since he split with her mother. As the film unfolds it gradually becomes clear that Sabrina is a vi… |
| Firmeza | Asia | 2012-12-13 | Short film by Asia Argento depicting an ayahuasca ceremony…. |
| The Voice Thief | 2013-09-12 | When an opera singer loses her voice, her husband embarks on an odyssey through different underworlds to recover it through supernatural means…. | |
| Traveling Companion | Cora | 1996-05-26 | In Rome, Cora is a waitress at a club, walks people’s dogs, sleeps with various men, kips with pals, and has a salty tongue…. |
| Obsessive Rythms | Margo | 2014-01-08 | On the night of New Year’s Eve, a small group penetrates into the room of an old hotel in ruins. Carmine, the oldest of the group, poses a challenge t… |
| Zoo | Martina | 1988-11-17 | Martina lives in the Rome’s zoo, because her father is the guardian. She becomes friend with a young Slavic escaped from a gypsy camp. When the police… |
| Abel/Asia | Herself | 1998-01-01 | Behind the scenes mini-doc from Asia Argento on Abel Ferrara during the filming of New Rose Hotel…. |
| Agony | Isidora | 2017-10-05 | A discontented New York family woman is unexpectedly called to Tuscany to execute her estranged mother’s will. There, she must decipher visions of her… |
| Nice to Meet You, Please Don’t Love Me! | Herself | 2004-03-01 | A documentary on Asia Argento, made during the making of “the Heart is Deceitful Above All Things.” Cinema has always been a part of her life, so much… |
| Don’t Bother To Knock | Herself | 2006-10-17 | Actress and director Asia Argento created this mesmerising series of film shorts exclusively for SHOWstudio over the course of October 2006. The vigne… |
| Frida: Viva la vida | Narrator (voice) | 2019-11-25 | The two sides of Frida Kahlo’s spirit: on one side the revolutionary, pioneering artist of contemporary feminism and on the other, the human being, vi… |
| ÆLEKTRA | 2020-07-07 | A fashion film written & directed by Asia Argento for Antonio Grimaldi Couture Collection A/W 2020/21…. | |
| Sans soleil | Léa | 2021-10-20 | A few years from now, the sun is on the verge of exploding and spatial shock waves flow the Earth. Most humans suffer auditory pain and Cyril’s mother… |
| Seule | Anne | 2022-10-26 | … |
| Shadow | A teen girl gets lost in a deep forest, she appears to be in danger and frantically tries to find a way out. A monologizing voice-over enters, that o… | ||
| The Phantom of the Opera | Christine Daaé | 1998-11-20 | Gory remake of the Gaston Leroux classic story, only this time, the phantom is not disfigured, but a man who was raised by rats deep under the Paris O… |
| xXx | Yelena | 2002-08-09 | Xander Cage is your standard adrenaline junkie with no fear and a lousy attitude. When the US Government “recruits” him to go on a mission, he’s not e… |
| The Keeper | Gina | 2004-05-14 | When an apparently exemplary cop abducts and secretly imprisons a beautiful dancer, a deadly battle of wills between captor and captive ensues…. |
| Trauma | Aura Petrescu | 1993-03-12 | An anorexic young woman escapes from a psychiatric clinic and meets a young man who wants to help. She is caught and returned to her parents, who are … |
| Love Bites | Violaine Charlier | 2001-03-21 | Antoine is a social wannabe who drops an elusive aristocrat’s name to get into an exclusive party. The name – Jordan – gets him whisked by two burly b… |
| Perdiamoci di vista | Arianna | 1994-01-27 | Comic tale of a cynical TV star’s slow-combustion romance with a young paraplegic…. |
| Baciato dalla fortuna | Betty | 2011-09-30 | Gaetano is a divorced traffic cop in a relationship with a beautiful and exuberant woman, for whom he happily provides standards of living well above … |
| Dracula 3D | Lucy | 2012-11-09 | When Englishman Jonathan Harker visits the exotic castle of Count Dracula, he is entranced by the mysterious aristocrat. But upon learning that the co… |
| The Red Siren | Anita | 2002-01-01 | Nearly 13, Alice rebels, telling the Paris police that her mother is a murderer. Alice has no evidence; her mother, Eva, rich and powerful, avoids cha… |
| Shongram | Sarah | 2019-04-18 | Shongram (struggle) is a romantic drama set during the 1971 liberation struggle of Bangladesh. A British Bengali on his death bed is interviewed by a… |
| Milady | Sally La Chèvre | 2004-01-06 | Milady De Winter, a beautiful femme fatale without scruples, plays with the feelings of her suitors. And sometimes very dangerously…. |
| Bits & Pieces | 1996-02-02 | Dive into the Eternal City – see Rome like you’ve never seen it before. Storefront robberies, bizarre murders, career dreamers, and cameos from It… | |
| Live Freaky! Die Freaky! | Habagail Folger (voice) | 2006-01-31 | In a distant future, a cult forms around the Manson Family, when Charles Manson is mistaken for the messiah. Meanwhile, in 1969, Manson convinces his … |
| The Making of ‘Mother of Tears’ | Self | 2008-09-23 | Behind the scenes documentary on the making of the film…. |
| Dark Glasses | Rita | 2022-02-24 | Diana, a high-class prostitute trying to escape from a serial killer, suffers a car accident that leaves her blind and kills the family of Chin, a ten… |
| Schirkoa | Lies (voice) | An intellectually confused bag-head gets elected as a senator in the dystopian city of Schirkoa where the perceived perfection and sleaze turns him in… | |
| Interstate | … | ||
| Last Days | Asia | 2005-06-12 | The life and struggles of a notorious rock musician seeping into a pit of loneliness whose everyday life involves friends and family seeking financial… |
| New Rose Hotel | Sandii | 1999-03-19 | A corporate raider and his henchman use a chanteuse to lure a scientific genius away from his employer and family…. |
| Diamond 13 | Calhoune | 2009-06-21 | A cop goes up against his lifelong friend, who has become one of the city’s biggest drug traffickers…. |
| Friendly Fire | 2006-09-26 | A surreal fantasy on the themes of love and friendship, set to the music and songs of the Sean Lennon album “Friendly Fire”…. | |
| Abel Ferrara: Not Guilty | 2003-09-12 | Intimate portrait of Abel Ferrara: the result is an eccentric road movie, with the restless film maker as a charming, shabby guide around New York by … | |
| Parts Unknown: Hong Kong | Herself | 2018-06-03 | Anthony Bourdain experiences Hong Kong through the eyes and lens of legendary cinematographer and longtime Hong Kong resident Christopher Doyle…. |
| Two Masters’ Eyes | 2003-04-29 | This documentary features interviews with directors Dario Argento and George Romero, Special Make-Up Effects supervisor Tom Savini, executive producer… | |
| Go Go Tales | Monroe | 2007-05-23 | A financial struggle between owners of a go-go club threatens its future…. |
| Cavalli | Madre | 2011-10-21 | … |
| Alien Crystal Palace | Sybille Atlante | 2018-11-21 | A scientist finds the secret that predispose to the formation of the ideal couple. With this new alchemy, he achieves a pioneering experience: the cre… |
| Tiens ferme ta couronne | … | ||
| Padre Pio | 2022-09-04 | It is the end of World War I and the young Italian soldiers are making their way back to San Giovanni Rotondo, a land of poverty, with a tradition of … | |
| Demons 2 | Ingrid Haller | 1986-10-09 | A group of tenants and visitors are trapped in a 10-story high-rise apartment building infested with demons who proceed to hunt the dwindling humans d… |
| Drifters | Beatrice Plana | 2011-09-09 | A man develops an attraction to the daughter of his father’s fiancee…. |
| Land of the Dead | Slack | 2005-06-18 | The world is full of zombies and the survivors have barricaded themselves inside a walled city to keep out the living dead. As the wealthy hide out in… |
| Palombella Rossa | Valentina Apicella | 1989-09-15 | Michele is a Communist MP who loses his memory in a car crash without anyone noticing. He’s also a water polo player and, during a match ahead of elec… |
| Condannato a nozze | Olivia | 1993-09-24 | A neurotic lawyer is split between the desire to stay faithful to his fiancée and the one to cheat on her. Things take a turn for the literal when on… |
| Vera | 2022-08-31 | Vera lives in the shadow of her famous father. Tired of her superficial life and relationships, she drifts through Roman high society. When she injure… | |
| Marie Antoinette | Madame du Barry | 2006-05-24 | A retelling of France’s iconic but ill-fated queen, Marie Antoinette, from her betrothal and marriage to Louis XVI at 15 to her reign as queen at 19 a… |
| The Church | Lotte | 1989-03-10 | In medieval Europe, crusading knights massacre a village full of suspected devil worshipers and build a large Gothic church above the cursed remains. … |
| Il museo degli orrori di Dario Argento | Herself | 1997-01-01 | Another biographical video of Dario Argento, the Italian film director. Many special effects are covered along with interviews with associates and var… |
| Ginostra | The Nun | 2003-01-29 | An FBI Agent from America and his bride and young child travel to the Sicilian island of Ginostra to solve the murder of a key witness…. |
| Dario Argento: An Eye for Horror | Herself | 2000-01-01 | Documentary that explores Argento’s film career…. |
| DeGenerazione | Alessia (segment “Consegna a domicilio”) | 1994-07-15 | Very rare Italian horror anthology from 1994, starring amongst many others, Asia Argento. This Italian movie is an anthology based with no linking mat… |
| Queen Margot | Charlotte de Sauve | 1994-05-13 | Paris, Kingdom of France, August 18, 1572. To avoid the outbreak of a religious war, the Catholic princess Marguerite de Valois, sister of the feeble … |
| The Making of Last Days | Herself | 2004-01-01 | Behind-the-scenes documentary of Gus Van Sant’s “Last Days.”… |
| Sogni e bisogni | Gloria | 1985-10-06 | … |
| The Making of Marie Antoinette | Self | 2007-07-02 | A behind-the-scenes look at the making of Sofia Coppola’s Marie Antoinette (2006)…. |
| Roadrunner: A Film About Anthony Bourdain | Self – Actor (archive footage) | 2021-07-16 | An intimate, behind-the-scenes look at how an anonymous chef became a world-renowned cultural icon. This unflinching look at Anthony Bourdain reverber… |
| DeGenerazione | Se stessa (segment “Prospettive”) | 1994-07-15 | Very rare Italian horror anthology from 1994, starring amongst many others, Asia Argento. This Italian movie is an anthology based with no linking mat… |
| DeGenerazione | Lorna (segment “Squeak!”) | 1994-07-15 | Very rare Italian horror anthology from 1994, starring amongst many others, Asia Argento. This Italian movie is an anthology based with no linking mat… |
Asia Argento Directing Movies
| Movie Name | Job | Release Date | Overview |
| Scarlet Diva | Director | 2000-05-26 | A young Italian actress embarks on a self-destructive spree of sex, drugs and other excess while doing some soul searching to find the path for redemp… |
| Your Tongue On My Heart | Director | 1999-08-12 | An experimental Super 8 short film directed by and starring Asia Argento, which premiered at the Locarno International Film Festival…. |
| 42 One Dream Rush | Director | 2010-09-15 | An omnibus of 42 short films by auteur directors based on Dreams…. |
| Firmeza | Director | 2012-12-13 | Short film by Asia Argento depicting an ayahuasca ceremony…. |
| Misunderstood | Director | 2014-06-05 | Rome, 1984, Aria is nine-year-old girl. On the verge of divorce, Aria’s infantile and selfish parents are too preoccupied with their careers and extra… |
| DeGenerazione | Director | 1994-07-15 | Very rare Italian horror anthology from 1994, starring amongst many others, Asia Argento. This Italian movie is an anthology based with no linking mat… |
| Abel/Asia | Director | 1998-01-01 | Behind the scenes mini-doc from Asia Argento on Abel Ferrara during the filming of New Rose Hotel…. |
| Era di marzo | Director | 2017-06-09 | After years spent under the yoke of her violent and mafioso husband, Nunzia flees to Switzerland in search of shelter. Along the way, she crosses path… |
| Parts Unknown: Hong Kong | Director | 2018-06-03 | Anthony Bourdain experiences Hong Kong through the eyes and lens of legendary cinematographer and longtime Hong Kong resident Christopher Doyle…. |
| Marilyn Manson: Lest We Forget | Director | 2004-09-27 | A collection of Marilyn Manson’s music videos…. |
| The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things | Director | 2004-09-15 | Young Jeremiah lives in a stable environment with loving foster parents until the day his troubled mother, Sarah, returns to claim him. Jeremiah becom… |
| ÆLEKTRA | Director | 2020-07-07 | A fashion film written & directed by Asia Argento for Antonio Grimaldi Couture Collection A/W 2020/21…. |
| Don’t Bother To Knock | Director | 2006-10-17 | Actress and director Asia Argento created this mesmerising series of film shorts exclusively for SHOWstudio over the course of October 2006. The vigne… |
Asia Argento Production Movies
| Movie Name | Job | Release Date | Overview |
| 42 One Dream Rush | Executive Producer | 2010-09-15 | An omnibus of 42 short films by auteur directors based on Dreams…. |
| Dark Glasses | Associate Producer | 2022-02-24 | Diana, a high-class prostitute trying to escape from a serial killer, suffers a car accident that leaves her blind and kills the family of Chin, a ten… |
Writing
| Movie Name | Job | Release Date | Overview |
| Scarlet Diva | Writer | 2000-05-26 | A young Italian actress embarks on a self-destructive spree of sex, drugs and other excess while doing some soul searching to find the path for redemp… |
| The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things | Screenplay | 2004-09-15 | Young Jeremiah lives in a stable environment with loving foster parents until the day his troubled mother, Sarah, returns to claim him. Jeremiah becom… |
| Your Tongue On My Heart | Screenplay | 1999-08-12 | An experimental Super 8 short film directed by and starring Asia Argento, which premiered at the Locarno International Film Festival…. |
| Firmeza | Screenplay | 2012-12-13 | Short film by Asia Argento depicting an ayahuasca ceremony…. |
| Era di marzo | Writer | 2017-06-09 | After years spent under the yoke of her violent and mafioso husband, Nunzia flees to Switzerland in search of shelter. Along the way, she crosses path… |
Other Info
| Movie Name | Job | Release Date | Overview |
| 42 One Dream Rush | Editor | 2010-09-15 | An omnibus of 42 short films by auteur directors based on Dreams…. |
| Don’t Bother To Knock | Editor | 2006-10-17 | Actress and director Asia Argento created this mesmerising series of film shorts exclusively for SHOWstudio over the course of October 2006. The vigne… |
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