Asia Argento



Aria Asia Maria Vittoria Rossa Argento[1]  (born 20 September 1975)[1] [2]  is an Italian actress, singer, model, and director.



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[hide]  *1 Family and early life  ==Family and early life[edit] == Her mother is actress Daria Nicolodi and her father is Dario Argento,[2]  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.[1]
 * 2 Career
 * 3 Personal life
 * 4 Filmography
 * 5 References
 * 6 External links

Asia Argento and her father Dario at the1993 Cannes Film FestivalWhen Asia Argento was born in Rome, the city registry office refused to acknowledge Asia as an appropriate name, and instead officially inscribed her as Aria Argento.[citation needed]  She nonetheless uses the name Asia Argento professionally. Argento has said that as a child she was lonely and depressed, owing in part to her parents' work.[3]  Her father used to read her his scripts as bedtime stories.[4]  At age eight, Argento published a book of poems.[4]  At the age of 14, she ran away from home.[3]  She was an introvert and read to make up for having no friends.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-swindle_4-2" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[4]

<p style="margin-top:0.4em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:19.1875px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;">In an interview with Filmmaker magazine she stated that she was agoraphobic while she was writing Scarlet Diva and that she could not leave her apartment for months.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-fm_5-0" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[5]  She said: "I was afraid to go out of my apartment for a long time, I could only go out to work."<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-fm_5-1" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[5] <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-index_6-0" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[6]

<p style="margin-top:0.4em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:19.1875px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;">Argento has mentioned in interviews that she does not have a close relationship with her father.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-index_6-1" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[6] <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-sgirls_7-0" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[7]  She has mentioned that he was absent when she was a child.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-sgirls_7-1" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[7]  She has also mentioned that she did not have a happy childhood.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-fm_5-2" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[5] <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-sgirls_7-2" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[7]  Regarding her relationship with her father and her reason for acting, she has stated that:<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-fm_5-3" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[5] ==Career<span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;padding-right:0.25em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[edit] == Argento at the 2005 Cannes Film Festival<p style="line-height:19.1875px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;">Asia Argento started acting at the age of nine,<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-iht_8-0" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[8]  playing a small part in a film by Sergio Citti.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-index_6-2" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[6]  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.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-fm_5-4" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[5]  She received the David di Donatello<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-hmovies_2-2" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[2]  (Italy's version of the Academy Award) for Best Actress in 1994 for her performance inPerdiamoci di vista!, and again in 1996 for Compagna di viaggio, which also earned her a Grolla d'oro award. In 1998, Argento began appearing inEnglish-language movies, such as B. Monkey and New Rose Hotel.

<p style="margin-top:0.4em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:19.1875px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;">Argento has proven her ability to work in multiple languages, adding French,<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-fm_5-5" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[5]  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,<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-fm_5-6" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[5]  which won her the Rome Film Festival Award.

<p style="margin-top:0.4em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:19.1875px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;">Argento directed and wrote her first movie, Scarlet Diva (2000),<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-fm_5-7" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[5]  which her father co-produced.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-fm_5-8" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[5]  Four years later she directed her second movie, The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things(2004), based on a book by JT LeRoy,<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-sgirls_7-3" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[7]  the pen name of Laura Albert, this time in the United States. According to a Paris Review interview with Laura Albert, Argento and Savannah Knoop, who played the role of JT's public persona, became lovers.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-9" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[9]

<p style="margin-top:0.4em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:19.1875px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;">In addition to her cinematic accomplishments, Argento has written a number of stories for magazines such as Dynamo and L'Espresso, while her first novel, titled I Love You Kirk, was published in Italy in 1999. She has modeled for and endorses the brand "Miss Sixty". She became a fan of the band Hondo Maclean when they wrote a track named after her. She liked the track so much she sent them pictures which they used as the cover of their 2003 EP Plans for a better day.

<p style="margin-top:0.4em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:19.1875px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;">From 17 to 25 October 2006, Argento contributed a video diary to Nick Knight's website, SHOWstudio. The title of the 54 entries/episodes was "Don't Bother To Knock" and detailed Argento's daily life with three entries (noon, 6 pm and midnight) posted every day. The content of the entries were partially controlled by a discussion forum and together formed a cohesive whole, a sort of "mini-movie" anyone could view for free. In the clips Argento discusses topics such as freaks, her father, Federico Fellini and her sexuality; she also journals a pregnancy, a new love interest and her unraveling psyche. The last visual of the diary is a digitally manipulated portrait of Argento taken by Knight, slowly burning away.

<p style="margin-top:0.4em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:19.1875px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;">She appeared in Placebo's music video for "This Picture", and appeared on Placebo frontman Brian Molko's cover version of "Je t'aime... moi non plus". Argento has also starred in Catherine Breillat's period drama, The Last Mistress.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-nytimes_10-0" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[10]

<p style="margin-top:0.4em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:19.1875px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;">She dubbed the Italian version of the video game Mirror's Edge in the role of the runner Faith Connors.

<p style="margin-top:0.4em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:19.1875px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;">Argento has been part of the Legendary Tiger Man's project Femina, which was released on 14 September 2009. She is featured on the song "Life Ain't Enough for You", which was released as a single along with the B-side "My stomach is the most violent of all Italy," in which she also contributes vocals.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-11" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[11]

<p style="margin-top:0.4em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:19.1875px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;">In May 2013 Argento released her debut LP, entitled "Total Entropy" under Nuun Music. She's been performing works from the album at various venues in Germany, France and England. She is working on a number of film projects. In November, Argento wrote the storyline for the music video and short film "Phoenix", along with the director Francesco Carrozzini, taken from the ASAP Rocky album ''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long._Live._ASAP Long. Live. ASAP]'', the short film stars actor Michael K. Williams and model Joan Smalls. ==Personal life<span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;padding-right:0.25em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[edit] == Argento at the 2007 Toronto International Film Festival<p style="line-height:19.1875px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;">Besides Italian, she also speaks fluent English and can also speak French, which she learned for her role in Les Morsures de L’Aube.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-fm_5-9" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[5]

<p style="margin-top:0.4em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:19.1875px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;">Her first child, Anna Lou, was born on 20 June 2001.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-ode_12-0" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[12]  Italian rock and roll musician Marco Castoldi (lead singer of Bluvertigo), also known as Morgan, is the father.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-swindle_4-3" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[4]  She named her daughter after her half-sister Anna Ceroli, who died in a motorcycle accident.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-guardian_3-2" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[3]  She and her daughter live in Rome.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-iht_8-1" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[8]

<p style="margin-top:0.4em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:19.1875px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;">Asia married film director Michele Civetta on 27 August 2008 in Arezzo. Her second child, Nicola Giovanni, was born on 15 September 2008 in Rome. ==Filmography<span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;padding-right:0.25em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[edit] == Argento at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival*Demoni 2 (1986)
 * Palombella Rossa (1988)
 * The Church (1989)
 * Trauma (1993)
 * La Reine Margot (1994)
 * The Stendhal Syndrome (1996)
 * Traveling Companion (1996)
 * Viola bacia tutti (1997)
 * New Rose Hotel (1998)
 * B. Monkey (1998)
 * The Phantom of the Opera (1998)
 * Les Misérables (miniseries) (2000)
 * Scarlet Diva (2000)
 * Les morsures de l'aube aka Love Bites (2001)
 * The Red Siren (2002)
 * xXx (2002)
 * This Picture (2003) (Placebo video-clip as model)
 * (s)AINT (2003) (Marilyn Manson music video)
 * The Keeper (2004)
 * The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things (2004)
 * Last Days (2005)
 * Cindy: The Doll Is Mine (2005)
 * Land of the Dead (2005)
 * Live Freaky! Die Freaky! (2006)
 * Sean Lennon's Friendly Fire (2006)
 * Marie Antoinette (2006)
 * Transylvania (2006)
 * The Last Mistress (2007)
 * Disengagement (2007)
 * Boarding Gate (2007)
 * The Mother of Tears (2007)
 * Coin Locker Babies (2008)
 * On War (2008)
 * Diamond 13 (2009)
 * Horses (2011)
 * Gli Sfiorati (2011)
 * Dracula 3D (2012)
 * Do not Disturb (2012)