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Name
Asia Argento

Known For
Acting

Birthday
1975-09-20 (51 years old)

Place of Birth
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.

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Known For

Movies

Tv Shows

2005 Last Days as Asia
2024 Interstate as Anna
1998 The Phantom of the Opera as Christine Daaé
2006 Marie Antoinette as Comtesse du Barry
2007 The Last Mistress as Vellini
1999 B. Monkey as Beatrice
1999 New Rose Hotel as Sandii
2005 Land of the Dead as Slack
2000 Scarlet Diva as Anna Battista
2002 xXx as Yelena
2009 Diamond 13 as Calhoune
2006 Transylvania as Zingarina
2004 The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things as Sarah
2008 On War as Uma
1986 Demons 2 as Ingrid Haller
1989 The Church as Lotte
2004 The Keeper as Gina
2007 Boarding Gate as Sandra
2007 The Mother of Tears as Sarah Mandy
1993 Trauma as Aura Petrescu
2012 Close Up as Self (archive footage)
1996 The Stendhal Syndrome as Det. Anna Manni
2008 Go Go Tales as Monroe
2024 Queens of Drama as Magalie Charmer
2001 Love Bites as Violaine Charlier
1989 Palombella rossa as Valentina Apicella
1998 Viola Kisses Everybody as Viola
1994 Perdiamoci di vista as Arianna Zorzi
2005 Cindy, the Doll Is Mine as Cindy Sherman / The model
2011 Baciato dalla fortuna as Betty
1999 Your Tongue On My Heart
1996 Bits & Pieces
2011 Drifters as Beatrice Plana
2011 Islands as Martina
2012 Do Not Disturb as Monica
1992 Close Friends as Simona
2012 Dracula 3D as Lucy
2025 Qui staremo benissimo as Kidney
2012 Firmeza as Asia
2013 The Voice Thief as Naya
1996 Traveling Companion as Cora
2007 The Making of Marie Antoinette as Self
2014 Obsessive Rhythms as Margo
2002 The Red Siren as Anita
1988 Zoo as Martina
1993 Condemned to Be Wed as Olivia
Soon Tiens ferme ta couronne
2022 Padre Pio as Tall Man
2023 Vera as Asia
2019 Shongram as Sarah
2001 Dario Argento: An Eye for Horror as Self
2024 Dario Argento: Panico as Self
2006 Live Freaky! Die Freaky! as Habagail Folger (voice)
Soon American Nails
2026 Stronger Than the Devil as Mila
2021 From My House in Da House: A History of Rome as Self
2023 Deep Argento
1994 Queen Margot as Charlotte de Sauve
2025 The Book of Joy as Mater
2017 Guillaume Depardieu, The Story Of An Enfant Terrible as Self
2004 Milady as Sally La Chèvre
1997 The World of Dario Argento 3: Museum of Horrors as Self
1998 Abel/Asia as Self
2017 Agony as Isidora
2004 Nice to Meet You, Please Don't Love Me! as Herself
2006 Friendly Fire as Grand Dame
2018 Alien Crystal Palace as Sybille
2004 The Making of Last Days as Herself
2003 Abel Ferrara: Not Guilty
2008 The Making of 'Mother of Tears' as Self
2006 Don't Bother to Knock as Herself
2019 Frida. Viva la Vida as Narrator (voice)
2003 Ginostra as The Nun
1994 DeGenerazione as Alessia (segment "Consegna a domicilio")
1994 DeGenerazione as Se stessa (segment "Prospettive")
1994 DeGenerazione as Lorna (segment "Squeak!")
2003 Two Masters' Eyes
2022 Dark Glasses as Rita
2021 Without Sun as Léa
2024 Schirkoa: In Lies We Trust as Mermaid (voice)
2023 Let Her Kill You as Anne
2017 Shadow
2025 Get Help as Benedetta Fabiani
2025 How Dark My Love as Self
2011 Cavalli as Madre
2015 Baku, I Love You as Asia (segment "Aziya")
2014 The Cult of JT LeRoy as Self
2027 Death Has No Master as Caro
2026 Armony
2026 Things That Happen as Self (archive footage)

1976 Domenica In ( 1 episode ) as Self
2007 Buona la prima! ( 1 episode ) as Suggeritrice
1999 The Late Late Show with Craig Kilborn ( 1 episode ) as Self
2000 Les Misérables ( 4 episodes ) as Éponine Thénardier
2014 Rodolfo Valentino - La leggenda ( 2 episodes ) as Natacha Rambova
2011 Sangue caldo ( 6 episodes ) as Anna Rosi
2024 The Story ( 8 episodes ) as Santina
2008 X Factor ( 7 episodes ) as Self - Judge
2006 Mafiosa ( 8 episodes ) as Charly
2013 Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown ( 1 episode ) as Self
2018 Citizen Rose ( 1 episode ) as Self
2023 Fading Gigolo ( 6 episodes ) as Costanza
2004 Leçon de Cinéma ( 1 episode ) as Self
2001 phoenix der tag ( 1 episode ) as Self
1985 Sogni e bisogni ( 11 episodes )
2025 Money Road - Ogni tentazione ha un prezzo ( 6 episodes )
1993 Eurotrash ( 1 episode )

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