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
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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Born
Sep 20, 1975
Rome, Lazio, Italy
Known For
Acting
Movies
93 acting
25 crew
Popularity
2.7
Known For
Marie Antoinette
2006
as Comtesse du Barry
xXx
2002
as Yelena
Land of the Dead
2005
as Slack
The Church
1989
as Lotte
Queen Margot
1994
as Charlotte de Sauve
Last Days
2005
as Asia
The Stendhal Syndrome
1996
as Det. Anna Manni
The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things
2004
as Sarah
The Phantom of the Opera
1998
as Christine Daaé
Dracula 3D
2012
as Lucy
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