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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Movies (98)
Death Has No Master
2027 · Caro
Making Marie Antoinette
2026 · Self
Armony
2026
Things That Happen
2026 · Self (archive footage)
Stronger Than the Devil
2026 · Mila
The Book of Joy
2025 · Mater
Qui staremo benissimo
2025 · Kidney
How Dark My Love
2025 · Self
Get Help
2025 · Benedetta Fabiani
Queens of Drama
2024 · Magalie Charmer
Dario Argento: Panico
2024 · Self
Interstate
2024 · Anna
Schirkoa: In Lies We Trust
2024 · Mermaid (voice)
Deep Argento
2023
Let Her Kill You
2023 · Anne
Vera
2023 · Asia
Padre Pio
2022 · Tall Man
Dark Glasses
2022 · Rita, Associate Producer
From My House in Da House: A History of Rome
2021 · Self
Without Sun
2021 · Léa
Frida Viva la vida
2019 · Narrator (voice)
Shongram
2019 · Sarah
Alien Crystal Palace
2018 · Sybille
Agony
2017 · Isidora
Era di marzo
2017 · Director, Writer
Guillaume Depardieu, The Story Of An Enfant Terrible
2017 · Self
Shadow
2017
Baku, I Love You
2015 · Asia (segment "Aziya")
The Cult of JT LeRoy
2014 · Self
Misunderstood
2014 · Director, Screenplay
Obsessive Rhythms
2014 · Margo
The Voice Thief
2013 · Naya
Firmeza
2012 · Asia, Screenplay, Director
Dracula 3D
2012 · Lucy
Do Not Disturb
2012 · Monica
Close Up
2012 · Self (archive footage)
Cavalli
2011 · Madre
Baciato dalla fortuna
2011 · Betty
Drifters
2011 · Beatrice Plana
Islands
2011 · Martina
42 One Dream Rush
2010 · Director
Diamond 13
2009 · Calhoune
On War
2008 · Uma
The Making of 'Mother of Tears'
2008 · Self
Go Go Tales
2008 · Monroe
The Mother of Tears
2007 · Sarah Mandy
Boarding Gate
2007 · Sandra
The Making of Marie Antoinette
2007 · Self
The Last Mistress
2007 · Vellini
Delfinasia
2007 · Director
Don't Bother to Knock
2006 · Herself, Director, Editor
Friendly Fire
2006 · Grand Dame
Transylvania
2006 · Zingarina
María Antonieta
2006 · Comtesse du Barry
Live Freaky! Die Freaky!
2006 · Habagail Folger (voice)
Cindy, the Doll Is Mine
2005 · Cindy Sherman / The model
Tierra de los muertos
2005 · Slack
Los últimos días
2005 · Asia
Dream of the Dead
2005 · Self
Marilyn Manson: Lest We Forget
2004 · Director
The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things
2004 · Sarah, Screenplay, Director
The Keeper
2004 · Gina
Nice to Meet You, Please Don't Love Me!
2004 · Self
Milady
2004 · Sally La Chèvre
The Making of Last Days
2004 · Self
Abel Ferrara: Not Guilty
2003
Two Masters' Eyes
2003
Ginostra
2003 · The Nun
The Red Siren
2002 · Anita
xXx - Triple X
2002 · Yelena
Dario Argento: An Eye for Horror
2001 · Self
Love Bites
2001 · Violaine Charlier
Scarlet Diva
2000 · Anna Battista, Writer, Director
La Scomparsa
2000 · Director
Your Tongue On My Heart
1999 · Screenplay, Director
B. Monkey
1999 · Beatrice
New Rose Hotel
1999 · Sandii
The Phantom of the Opera
1998 · Christine Daaé
Viola Kisses Everybody
1998 · Viola
Abel/Asia
1998 · Self, Director
The World of Dario Argento 3: Museum of Horrors
1997 · Self
Traveling Companion
1996 · Cora
Bits & Pieces
1996
The Stendhal Syndrome
1996 · Det. Anna Manni
DeGenerazione
1994 · Se stessa (segment "Prospettive"), Alessia (segment "Consegna a domicilio"), Lorna (segment "Squeak!"), Director, Assistant Director, Story, Screenplay
Queen Margot
1994 · Charlotte de Sauve
Perdiamoci di vista
1994 · Arianna Zorzi
Condemned to Be Wed
1993 · Olivia
Trauma
1993 · Aura Petrescu
Close Friends
1992 · Simona
Palombella rossa
1989 · Valentina Apicella
The Church
1989 · Lotte
Zoo
1988 · Martina
Demons 2
1986 · Ingrid Haller
Tiens ferme ta couronne
American Nails
A Mother For An Hour
· Daria
Gia: The Shadow of Beauty
· Executive Producer
TV shows (18)
R.I.P. - Roast-in-Peace
2025
Money Road - Ogni tentazione ha un prezzo
2025
The Story
2024 · Santina
Fading Gigolo
2023 · Costanza
Citizen Rose
2018 · Self
Rodolfo Valentino - La leggenda
2014 · Natacha Rambova
Anthony Bourdain: Lo desconocido
2013 · Self
Sangue caldo
2011 · Anna Rosi
X Factor
2008 · Self - Judge
Buona la prima!
2007 · Suggeritrice
Mafiosa
2006 · Charly
Leçon de Cinéma
2004 · Self
phoenix der tag
2001 · Self
Les Misérables
2000 · Éponine Thénardier
The Late Late Show with Craig Kilborn
1999 · Self
Eurotrash
1993
Sogni e bisogni
1985
Domenica In
1976 · Self