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.
Known For
Credits
- 2024 · Queens of Drama as Magalie Charmer
- 2024 · Dario Argento: Panico as Self
- 2024 · Interstate as Anna
- 2024 · The Book of Joy as Mater
- 2024 · Schirkoa: In Lies We Trust as Mermaid (voice)
- 2024 · La Storia as Santina
- 2023 · Fading Gigolo as
- 2023 · Deep Argento as
- 2023 · Padre Pio as Tall Man
- 2023 · Let Her Kill You as Anne
- 2022 · Vera as Asia
- 2022 · Dark Glasses as Rita
- 2021 · From My House in Da House: A History of Rome as Self
- 2021 · Sans soleil as Léa
- 2021 · Roadrunner: A Film About Anthony Bourdain as Self - Actor (archive footage)
- 2020 · ÆLEKTRA as
- 2020 · Agony as
- 2019 · Frida. Viva la Vida as Narrator (voice)
- 2019 · Shongram as Sarah
- 2018 · Alien Crystal Palace as Sybille Atlante
- 2018 · Parts Unknown: Hong Kong as Herself
- 2018 · Citizen Rose as Self
- 2017 · Agony as Isidora
- 2017 · Agony (L'esecutore) as
- 2017 · Guillaume Depardieu, The Story Of An Enfant Terrible as Self
- 2014 · Rodolfo Valentino - La leggenda as Natacha Rambova
- 2014 · Obsessive Rythms as Margo
- 2013 · The Voice Thief as Naya
- 2013 · Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown as Self
- 2012 · Firmeza as Asia
- 2012 · Dracula 3D as Lucy
- 2012 · Do Not Disturb as Monica
- 2012 · Close Up as Self (archive footage)
- 2011 · Cavalli as Madre
- 2011 · Baciato dalla fortuna as Betty
- 2011 · Drifters as Beatrice Plana
- 2011 · Sangue caldo as Anna Rosi
- 2011 · Islands as Martina
- 2009 · Diamond 13 as Calhoune
- 2008 · On War as Uma
- 2008 · The Making of 'Mother of Tears' as Self
- 2008 · X Factor as Self - Judge
- 2007 · The Mother of Tears as Sarah Mandy
- 2007 · Boarding Gate as Sandra
- 2007 · The Making of Marie Antoinette as Self
- 2007 · The Last Mistress as Vellini
- 2007 · Go Go Tales as Monroe
- 2007 · Buona la prima! as Suggeritrice
- 2006 · Mafiosa as Charly
- 2006 · Don't Bother to Knock as Herself
- 2006 · Friendly Fire as Grand Dame
- 2006 · Transylvania as Zingarina
- 2006 · Marie Antoinette as Comtesse du Barry
- 2006 · Live Freaky! Die Freaky! as Habagail Folger (voice)
- 2005 · Cindy, the Doll Is Mine as Cindy Sherman / The model
- 2005 · Land of the Dead as Slack
- 2005 · Last Days as Asia
- 2004 · The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things as Sarah
- 2004 · The Keeper as Gina
- 2004 · Leçon de Cinéma as Self
- 2004 · Nice to Meet You, Please Don't Love Me! as Herself
- 2004 · Milady as Sally La Chèvre
- 2004 · The Making of Last Days as Herself
- 2003 · Abel Ferrara: Not Guilty as
- 2003 · Two Masters' Eyes as
- 2003 · Ginostra as The Nun
- 2002 · The Red Siren as Anita
- 2002 · xXx as Yelena
- 2001 · Phoenix Der Tag as Self
- 2001 · Dario Argento: An Eye for Horror as Self
- 2001 · Love Bites as Violaine Charlier
- 2000 · Les Misérables as Éponine Thénardier
- 2000 · Scarlet Diva as Anna Battista
- 1999 · Your Tongue On My Heart as
- 1999 · B. Monkey as Beatrice
- 1999 · The Late Late Show with Craig Kilborn as Self
- 1999 · New Rose Hotel as Sandii
- 1998 · The Phantom of the Opera as Christine Daaé
- 1998 · Viola bacia tutti as Viola
- 1998 · Abel/Asia as Self
- 1997 · The World of Dario Argento 3: Museum of Horrors as Herself
- 1996 · Traveling Companion as Cora
- 1996 · Bits & Pieces as
- 1996 · The Stendhal Syndrome as Det. Anna Manni
- 1994 · DeGenerazione as Alessia (segment "Consegna a domicilio")
- 1994 · DeGenerazione as Se stessa (segment "Prospettive")
- 1994 · DeGenerazione as Lorna (segment "Squeak!")
- 1994 · Queen Margot as Charlotte de Sauve
- 1994 · Perdiamoci di vista as Arianna
- 1993 · Condannato a nozze as Olivia
- 1993 · Trauma as Aura Petrescu
- 1992 · Close Friends as Simona
- 1989 · Palombella Rossa as Valentina Apicella
- 1989 · The Church as Lotte
- 1986 · Demons 2 as Ingrid Haller
- Future · American Nails as
- Future · Tiens ferme ta couronne as
- Future · Stronger Than the Devil as
- Future · Shadow as
- 1988 · Zoo as Martina
- 1976 · Domenica In as Self
- Future · Qui staremo benissimo as