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.
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Known For | Acting |
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Most Rating | 17.357 |
Birthday | 1975-09-20 |
Place of Birth | Rome, Lazio, Italy |
Also Known As | Asia Aria Maria Vittoria Rossa Argento, 아시아 아르젠토, Азия Ардженто, アーシア・アルジェント, |
2005
Last Days
5.539/363
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Interstate
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1998
The Phantom of the Opera
4.6/165
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2006
Marie Antoinette
6.7/2701
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Marie Antoinette
2007
The Last Mistress
5.7/61
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The Last Mistress
1999
B. Monkey
5.882/85
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B. Monkey
1999
New Rose Hotel
5.3/124
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2005
Land of the Dead
6.179/1556
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2000
Scarlet Diva
4.9/59
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2002
xXx
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2009
Diamond 13
5.4/55
A cop goes up against his lifelong friend, who has become one of the city's biggest drug traffickers.
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2006
Transylvania
5.5/31
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2004
The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things
5.8/144
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2008
On War
5/24
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1986
Demons 2
6.1/277
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1989
The Church
6/219
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2004
The Keeper
4.6/29
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2007
Boarding Gate
4.935/92
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2007
The Mother of Tears
4.5/417
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1993
Trauma
5.8/208
A young Romanian woman and a recovering drug addict launch an unlikely investigation after her parents are murdered by a vicious serial killer known a...
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Trauma
2012
Close Up
9/1
More than 150 silent short films about singers, actors and directors captured during Press Conferences in Cannes, Venice and Berlin, between 1993 and...
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Close Up
1996
The Stendhal Syndrome
5.5/248
A young policewoman slowly goes insane while tracking down an elusive serial rapist/killer through Italy when she herself becomes a victim of the brut...
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The Stendhal Syndrome
2007
Go Go Tales
5.6/47
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Go Go Tales
2024
Queens of Drama
0/0
It's 2055 and Steevyshady, an obsessive Mimi Madamour stan, tells us of their idol’s mad destiny from the very peak of her career in 2005, all the way...
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2001
Love Bites
4.7/44
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1989
Palombella Rossa
7.184/255
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2011
Cavalli
4.6/8
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1998
Viola bacia tutti
5.3/56
Three deadbeat friends see their motorhome holiday trip hijacked by Viola, a beautiful girl on the run from the police after a robbery.
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Viola bacia tutti
1994
Perdiamoci di vista
6.11/123
Comic tale of a cynical TV star's slow-combustion romance with a young paraplegic.
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Perdiamoci di vista
2005
Cindy, the Doll Is Mine
4.9/8
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Cindy, the Doll Is Mine
2011
Baciato dalla fortuna
4.9/159
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Baciato dalla fortuna
1999
Your Tongue On My Heart
5/1
An experimental Super 8 short film directed by and starring Asia Argento, which premiered at the Locarno International Film Festival.
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1996
Bits & Pieces
4.9/14
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Bits & Pieces
2011
Drifters
6/40
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Drifters
2011
Islands
6.6/5
Ivan is an undocumented immigrant from Eastern Europe who is in Italy looking for work to support himself and his father, who has a gambling addiction...
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Islands
2012
Do Not Disturb
4.3/37
In this lively French remake of Humpday, best buds reunite and revive their friendship on a questionable dare. Can two straight guys really make a gay...
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Do Not Disturb
1992
Close Friends
5.8/17
Fifteen-year-old Sabrina has lived with her father since he split with her mother. As the film unfolds it gradually becomes clear that Sabrina is a vi...
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Close Friends
2012
Dracula 3D
3.4/216
When Englishman Jonathan Harker visits the exotic castle of Count Dracula, he is entranced by the mysterious aristocrat. But upon learning that the co...
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Qui staremo benissimo
0/0
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2012
Firmeza
0/0
Short film by Asia Argento depicting an ayahuasca ceremony.
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Firmeza
2013
The Voice Thief
4.7/12
When an opera singer loses her voice, her husband embarks on an odyssey through different underworlds to recover it through supernatural means.
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The Voice Thief
1996
Traveling Companion
6.3/9
In Rome, Cora is a waitress at a club, walks people's dogs, sleeps with various men, kips with pals, and has a salty tongue.
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2007
The Making of Marie Antoinette
5/3
A behind-the-scenes look at the making of Sofia Coppola's Marie Antoinette (2006).
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The Making of Marie Antoinette
2014
Obsessive Rythms
5.3/3
On the night of New Year's Eve, a small group penetrates into the room of an old hotel in ruins. Carmine, the oldest of the group, poses a challenge t...
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2002
The Red Siren
5.2/20
Nearly 13, Alice rebels, telling the Paris police that her mother is a murderer. Alice has no evidence; her mother, Eva, rich and powerful, avoids cha...
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1988
Zoo
6/2
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Zoo
1993
Condannato a nozze
4.7/5
A neurotic lawyer is split between the desire to stay faithful to his fiancée and the one to cheat on her. Things take a turn for the literal when one...
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Tiens ferme ta couronne
0/0
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2023
Padre Pio
5.4/27
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2022
Vera
6.7/11
Vera lives in the shadow of her famous father. Tired of her superficial life and relationships, she drifts through Roman high society. When she injure...
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Vera
2019
Shongram
0/0
Shongram (struggle) is a romantic drama set during the 1971 liberation struggle of Bangladesh. A British Bengali on his death bed is interviewed by a...
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Shongram
2001
Dario Argento: An Eye for Horror
6.6/14
Documentary that explores Argento's film career.
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Dario Argento: An Eye for Horror
2024
Dario Argento: Panico
0/0
This documentary about the great master of European horror and fantastic films offers an immersive exploration into the life and legacy of the directo...
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Dario Argento: Panico
2006
Live Freaky! Die Freaky!
3.8/8
In a distant future, a cult forms around the Manson Family, when Charles Manson is mistaken for the messiah. Meanwhile, in 1969, Manson convinces his...
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American Nails
0/0
The rise and fall of a modern Phaedra, in a tale set in the gangster world of primal violence, power and revenge. This no-holds-barred retelling of Eu...
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Stronger Than the Devil
0/0
Valentin, a man with a shady past but who is trying to turn over a new leaf, reunites with his estranged son Joseph and his son’s girlfriend Alice aft...
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2021
From My House in Da House: A History of Rome
0/0
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2023
Deep Argento
0/0
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2020
Agony
0/0
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1994
Queen Margot
7.2/363
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2017
Agony (L'esecutore)
0/0
Andrea Ambrose is a young woman living in South Central, Los Angeles. She meets a young prostitute and forms a connection.
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Agony (L'esecutore)
2024
The Book of Joy
0/0
In a dull, desolate town, Joy is an orphan who lives her faith with intensity and almost never leaves her church. Until the day she meets Andriy, a yo...
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2017
Guillaume Depardieu, The Story Of An Enfant Terrible
0/0
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2004
Milady
3.3/3
Milady De Winter, a beautiful femme fatale without scruples, plays with the feelings of her suitors. And sometimes very dangerously.
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Milady
1997
The World of Dario Argento 3: Museum of Horrors
6/1
Documentary about Dario Argento, "Profondo Rosso" shop in Rome, and most important works throughout his career.
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The World of Dario Argento 3: Museum of Horrors
1998
Abel/Asia
0/0
Behind the scenes mini-doc from Asia Argento on Abel Ferrara during the filming of New Rose Hotel.
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Abel/Asia
2017
Agony
4/1
A discontented New York family woman is unexpectedly called to Tuscany to execute her estranged mother's will. There, she must decipher visions of her...
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Agony
2004
Nice to Meet You, Please Don't Love Me!
0/0
A documentary on Asia Argento, made during the making of "the Heart is Deceitful Above All Things." Cinema has always been a part of her life, so much...
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2006
Friendly Fire
5/1
A surreal fantasy on the themes of love and friendship, set to the music and songs of the Sean Lennon album "Friendly Fire".
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Friendly Fire
2018
Alien Crystal Palace
2.8/12
A scientist finds the secret that predispose to the formation of the ideal couple. With this new alchemy, he achieves a pioneering experience: the cre...
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Alien Crystal Palace
2004
The Making of Last Days
0/0
Behind-the-scenes documentary of Gus Van Sant's "Last Days."
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The Making of Last Days
2003
Abel Ferrara: Not Guilty
8/2
Intimate portrait of Abel Ferrara: the result is an eccentric road movie, with the restless film maker as a charming, shabby guide around New York by...
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Abel Ferrara: Not Guilty
2018
Parts Unknown: Hong Kong
9/2
Anthony Bourdain experiences Hong Kong through the eyes and lens of legendary cinematographer and longtime Hong Kong resident Christopher Doyle.
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Parts Unknown: Hong Kong
2008
The Making of 'Mother of Tears'
4/1
Behind the scenes documentary on the making of the film.
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The Making of 'Mother of Tears'
2006
Don't Bother to Knock
0/0
Actress and director Asia Argento created this mesmerising series of film shorts exclusively for SHOWstudio over the course of October 2006. The vigne...
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Don't Bother to Knock
2019
Frida. Viva la Vida
6.7/40
The two sides of Frida Kahlo's spirit: on one side the revolutionary, pioneering artist of contemporary feminism and on the other, the human being, vi...
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Frida. Viva la Vida
2003
Ginostra
4.6/7
An FBI Agent from America and his bride and young child travel to the Sicilian island of Ginostra to solve the murder of a key witness.
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Ginostra
2020
ÆLEKTRA
0/0
A fashion film written & directed by Asia Argento for Antonio Grimaldi Couture Collection A/W 2020/21.
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ÆLEKTRA
1994
DeGenerazione
6.4/5
Horror/sci-fi anthology with a punk streak, co-directed by and starring — among other newcomers — Asia Argento.
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DeGenerazione
1994
DeGenerazione
6.4/5
Horror/sci-fi anthology with a punk streak, co-directed by and starring — among other newcomers — Asia Argento.
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DeGenerazione
1994
DeGenerazione
6.4/5
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DeGenerazione
2003
Two Masters' Eyes
0/0
This documentary features interviews with directors Dario Argento and George Romero, Special Make-Up Effects supervisor Tom Savini, executive producer...
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Two Masters' Eyes
2022
Dark Glasses
4.7/175
Diana, a high-class prostitute trying to escape from a serial killer, suffers a car accident that leaves her blind and kills the family of Chin, a ten...
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Dark Glasses
2021
Sans soleil
6/1
A few years from now, the sun is on the verge of exploding and spatial shock waves flow the Earth. Most humans suffer auditory pain and Cyril's mother...
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Sans soleil
2024
Schirkoa: In Lies We Trust
0/0
In a sophisticated near perfect society, citizens live with paper bags on heads to dissolve differences. Tensions rise when the whispers of a mythical...
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Schirkoa: In Lies We Trust
2023
Let Her Kill You
6.134/146
Alone in the mountains of Switzerland, Anne discovers that her isolated chalet is on surveillance and has been bugged. Caught up by her former life as...
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Shadow
0/0
A teen girl gets lost in a deep forest, she appears to be in danger and frantically tries to find a way out. A monologizing voice-over enters, that o...
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Shadow
2021
Roadrunner: A Film About Anthony Bourdain
6.9/72
An intimate, behind-the-scenes look at how an anonymous chef became a world-renowned cultural icon. This unflinching look at Anthony Bourdain reverber...
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