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