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 greatgrandfather 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 Italys 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 doro award In 1998 Argento began appearing in Englishlanguage 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 1994s 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 coproduced 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 CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia