Asia Argento
Acting • Born 1975-09-20
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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Asia Argento, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Filmography
103 credits
Last Days
Movie • 2005
Asia
Interstate
Movie • 2024
Anna
The Phantom of the Opera
Movie • 1998
Christine Daaé
Marie Antoinette
Movie • 2006
Comtesse du Barry
The Last Mistress
Movie • 2007
Vellini
B. Monkey
Movie • 1999
Beatrice
New Rose Hotel
Movie • 1999
Sandii
Land of the Dead
Movie • 2005
Slack
Scarlet Diva
Movie • 2000
Anna Battista
xXx
Movie • 2002
Yelena
Diamond 13
Movie • 2009
Calhoune
Transylvania
Movie • 2006
Zingarina
The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things
Movie • 2004
Sarah
On War
Movie • 2008
Uma
Demons 2
Movie • 1986
Ingrid Haller
The Church
Movie • 1989
Lotte
The Keeper
Movie • 2004
Gina
Boarding Gate
Movie • 2007
Sandra
The Mother of Tears
Movie • 2007
Sarah Mandy
Trauma
Movie • 1993
Aura Petrescu
Close Up
Movie • 2012
Self (archive footage)
The Stendhal Syndrome
Movie • 1996
Det. Anna Manni
Go Go Tales
Movie • 2008
Monroe
Queens of Drama
Movie • 2024
Magalie Charmer
Love Bites
Movie • 2001
Violaine Charlier
Palombella rossa
Movie • 1989
Valentina Apicella
Viola Kisses Everybody
Movie • 1998
Viola
Perdiamoci di vista
Movie • 1994
Arianna Zorzi
Cindy, the Doll Is Mine
Movie • 2005
Cindy Sherman / The model
Baciato dalla fortuna
Movie • 2011
Betty
Your Tongue On My Heart
Movie • 1999
Bits & Pieces
Movie • 1996
Drifters
Movie • 2011
Beatrice Plana
Islands
Movie • 2011
Martina
Do Not Disturb
Movie • 2012
Monica
Close Friends
Movie • 1992
Simona
Dracula 3D
Movie • 2012
Lucy
Qui staremo benissimo
Movie • 2025
Kidney
Firmeza
Movie • 2012
Asia
The Voice Thief
Movie • 2013
Naya
Traveling Companion
Movie • 1996
Cora
The Making of Marie Antoinette
Movie • 2007
Self
Obsessive Rhythms
Movie • 2014
Margo
The Red Siren
Movie • 2002
Anita
Zoo
Movie • 1988
Martina
Condemned to Be Wed
Movie • 1993
Olivia
Tiens ferme ta couronne
Movie
Padre Pio
Movie • 2023
Tall Man
Vera
Movie • 2023
Asia
Shongram
Movie • 2019
Sarah
Dario Argento: An Eye for Horror
Movie • 2001
Self
Dario Argento: Panico
Movie • 2024
Self
Live Freaky! Die Freaky!
Movie • 2006
Habagail Folger (voice)
American Nails
Movie
Stronger Than the Devil
Movie • 2026
From My House in Da House: A History of Rome
Movie • 2021
Self
Deep Argento
Movie • 2023
Queen Margot
Movie • 1994
Charlotte de Sauve
The Book of Joy
Movie • 2025
Mater
Guillaume Depardieu, The Story Of An Enfant Terrible
Movie • 2017
Self
Milady
Movie • 2004
Sally La Chèvre
The World of Dario Argento 3: Museum of Horrors
Movie • 1997
Herself
Abel/Asia
Movie • 1998
Self
Agony
Movie • 2017
Isidora
Nice to Meet You, Please Don't Love Me!
Movie • 2004
Herself
Friendly Fire
Movie • 2006
Grand Dame
Alien Crystal Palace
Movie • 2018
Sybille
The Making of Last Days
Movie • 2004
Herself
Abel Ferrara: Not Guilty
Movie • 2003
The Making of 'Mother of Tears'
Movie • 2008
Self
Don't Bother to Knock
Movie • 2006
Herself
Frida. Viva la Vida
Movie • 2019
Narrator (voice)
Ginostra
Movie • 2003
The Nun
DeGenerazione
Movie • 1994
Alessia (segment "Consegna a domicilio")
DeGenerazione
Movie • 1994
Se stessa (segment "Prospettive")
DeGenerazione
Movie • 1994
Lorna (segment "Squeak!")
Two Masters' Eyes
Movie • 2003
Dark Glasses
Movie • 2022
Rita
Without Sun
Movie • 2021
Léa
Schirkoa: In Lies We Trust
Movie • 2024
Mermaid (voice)
Let Her Kill You
Movie • 2023
Anne
Shadow
Movie • 2017
Get Help
Movie • 2025
Benedetta Fabiani
How Dark My Love
Movie • 2025
Self
Cavalli
Movie • 2011
Madre
Baku, I Love You
Movie • 2015
Asia (segment "Aziya")
The Cult of JT LeRoy
Movie • 2014
Self
Domenica In
TV • 1976
Self
Buona la prima!
TV • 2007
Suggeritrice
The Late Late Show with Craig Kilborn
TV • 1999
Self
Les Misérables
TV • 2000
Éponine Thénardier
Rodolfo Valentino - La leggenda
TV • 2014
Natacha Rambova
Sangue caldo
TV • 2011
Anna Rosi
La Storia
TV • 2024
Santina
X Factor
TV • 2008
Self - Judge
Mafiosa
TV • 2006
Charly
Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown
TV • 2013
Self
Citizen Rose
TV • 2018
Self
Fading Gigolo
TV • 2023
Costanza
Leçon de Cinéma
TV • 2004
Self
phoenix der tag
TV • 2001
Self
Sogni e bisogni
TV • 1985
Money Road - Ogni tentazione ha un prezzo
TV • 2025