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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Asia Argento, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
103 acting credits · 13 directing credits
Acting · 103
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2002
Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown
2013
The Late Late Show with Craig Kilborn
1999
X Factor
2008
Eurotrash
1993
Domenica In
1976
Marie Antoinette
2006
Land of the Dead
2005
phoenix der tag
2001
Mafiosa
2006
Leçon de Cinéma
2004
Queen Margot
1994
Drifters
2011
Les Misérables
2000
Money Road - Ogni tentazione ha un prezzo
2025
The Story
2024
Sogni e bisogni
1985
Buona la prima!
2007
Citizen Rose
2018
The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things
2004
Fading Gigolo
2023
Scarlet Diva
2000
The Church
1989
Demons 2
1986
Close Up
2012
Sangue caldo
2011
Trauma
1993
The Stendhal Syndrome
1996
Dracula 3D
2012
Dark Glasses
2022
The Phantom of the Opera
1998
The Last Mistress
2007
New Rose Hotel
1999
Boarding Gate
2007
B. Monkey
1999
Last Days
2005
DeGenerazione
1994
Rodolfo Valentino - La leggenda
2014
The Keeper
2004
Schirkoa: In Lies We Trust
2024
Let Her Kill You
2023
Go Go Tales
2008
Padre Pio
2023
The Mother of Tears
2007
Do Not Disturb
2012
Diamond 13
2009
Death Has No Master
2026
Stronger Than the Devil
2026
Transylvania
2006
Queens of Drama
2024
The Making of Marie Antoinette
2007
Dario Argento: Panico
2024
The World of Dario Argento 3: Museum of Horrors
1997
The Red Siren
2002
Get Help
2025
On War
2008
Baku, I Love You
2015
Qui staremo benissimo
2025
Interstate
2024
Palombella rossa
1989
Bits & Pieces
1996
Ginostra
2003
Viola Kisses Everybody
1998
Agony
2017
Dario Argento: An Eye for Horror
2001
Love Bites
2001
Friendly Fire
2006
Shongram
2019
Perdiamoci di vista
1994
From My House in Da House: A History of Rome
2021
Frida. Viva la Vida
2019
Close Friends
1992
Milady
2004
Vera
2023
Nice to Meet You, Please Don't Love Me!
2004
Shadow
2017
Traveling Companion
1996
Zoo
1988
Baciato dalla fortuna
2011
Without Sun
2021
Abel Ferrara: Not Guilty
2003
Live Freaky! Die Freaky!
2006
Obsessive Rhythms
2014
Tiens ferme ta couronne
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Cavalli
2011
The Making of Last Days
2004
American Nails
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Alien Crystal Palace
2018
Condemned to Be Wed
1993
The Cult of JT LeRoy
2014
Islands
2011
Guillaume Depardieu, The Story Of An Enfant Terrible
2017
How Dark My Love
2025
Cindy, the Doll Is Mine
2005
The Making of 'Mother of Tears'
2008
Firmeza
2012
Don't Bother to Knock
2006
The Book of Joy
2025
Deep Argento
2023
The Voice Thief
2013
Abel/Asia
1998
Your Tongue On My Heart
1999
Two Masters' Eyes
2003
Directing · 13
The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things
2004
Scarlet Diva
2000
DeGenerazione
1994
42 One Dream Rush
2010
Misunderstood
2014
Delfinasia
2007
Marilyn Manson: Lest We Forget
2004
Firmeza
2012
Don't Bother to Knock
2006
Abel/Asia
1998
Your Tongue On My Heart
1999
Era di marzo
2017
La Scomparsa
2000