Italian actress Asia Argento She was born into a family of actors and filmmakers, and is one of the most sought-after actresses of the moment.
Daughter of director Dario Argento, Asia Aria Maria Vittoria Rossa Argento He was born in Rome on September 20, 1975. His mother is the actress Daria Nicolodi
Asia debuted as an actress when when she was just nine years old in “Sogni e bisogni“by Sergio Citti (1985). In 1988, he got the main role in Cristina Comencini’s first film, Zoo (1989) and was part of the cast of La Iglesia (1989), directed by Michele Soavi.
The following year, she played Nanni Moretti’s daughter in Red Lob (1989) (also directed by Nanni Moretti). Went with Close Friends (1992), written and directed by Michele Placido, that the career of Asia It really took off and was able to move from playing very young girls to more mature and complex roles. The film was well received at the Cannes International Film Festival.
On Trauma (1993), she first worked with her father, the famous Italian horror film director Dario Argento, playing an anorexic girl in search of her parents’ murderer. The Phantom of the Opera is the third movie that Asia performed with his father; in 1992, he did Trauma (1993) (filmed in the United States) and The Stendal Syndrome in 1996.
The concentrated and intense acting style of Asia was well used in Condemned to nozze (1993) by Giuseppe Piccioni. In 1993, he co-starred I lost sight by Carlo Verdone. (1994) in which he played Arianna, a physically disabled girl, an intricate and difficult role that earned her the David de Donatello as best actress (1993-1994). He also had a prominent role in the international cast of Queen margot (1994), directed by Patrice Chéreau.
In 1995, he worked with Michel Piccoli on Traveling companion (1996) by Peter Del Monte, which again earned him a David by Donatello and a Golden Crane.
In 1994, Asia was given the task of directing two short films: “Prospettive“(an episode of the movie DeGenerazione (1994)) and”To ritroso“. In 1996, he directed a documentary about his father and, in 1998, about Abel Ferrara,”Abel / Asia“which won an award at the Rome Film Festival.
In 1999, Asia made his feature film directing debut with the film Scarlet diva (2000), in which she was the lead actress and scriptwriter. The film won an award at the Williamsburg Film Festival in Brooklyn, New York, USA.
Asia Argento She is also the author of several short stories published in many prestigious magazines such as “Dynamo”, “L’Espresso”, “Sette” and “Village”, her first novel, “I love you, kirk“was published in Italy in October 1999 and in France in 2001.