Asia Argento started acting at the age of nine playing a small part in a film by Sergio Citti. She was directed by her father Dario Argento in one of her first works, The Church (1989), when she was 12, and Trauma (1993), when she was 16. During this film she also had her first nude scene. She received the David di Donatello (Italy's version of Hollywood's 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, with Christopher Walken.
Argento has proven her ability to work in multiple languages, adding French to the list of languages in which she has performed, with a role 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. She directed and wrote her first movie called Scarlet Diva (2000), which was co-produced by Dario Argento. Four years later directed her second movie, The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things (2004), based on a book by JT LeRoy, this time in the United States. According to a Paris Review interview with author and con artist Laura Albert, who was the brain behind JT LeRoy, Argento and Savannah Knoop, who "played" JT at the time, became lovers.
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". The band Hondo Maclean from South Wales, gained Argento's interest 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 2004 EP Chasing Angels.
From the 17th to the 25th of 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, Fellini and her sexuality; she also journals a pregnancy, a new love interest and her unraveling psyche. All of these issues come to a head before Argento's final revelations and good-byes. The last visual of the diary is a digitally manipulated portrait of Argento taken by Knight, slowly burning away.
She appeared in Placebo's music video, This Picture, and featured on a cover version of Je t'aime... moi non plus with Placebo frontman Brian Molko and dance producers Trash Palace. Argento has also starred in Catherine Breillat's period drama, Une vieille maîtresse (An Old Mistress).
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FILMOGRAPHY
The Mother of Tears (2007)
Boarding Gate (2007)
Désengagement (2007)
Une vieille maîtresse aka The Last Mistress (2007)
Transylvania (2006)
Coin Locker Babies (2006)
Marie-Antoinette (2006)
Sean Lennon's Friendly Fire (2006)
Land of the Dead (2005)
Cindy: The Doll Is Mine (2005)
Last Days (2005)
The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things (2004)
The Keeper (2004)
(s)AINT (2003) (Marilyn Manson music video)
xXx (2002)
Red Siren (2002)
Scarlet Diva (2000)
The Phantom of the Opera (1998)
B. Monkey (1998)
New Rose Hotel (1998)
The Stendhal Syndrome (1996)
La Reine Margot (1994)
Trauma (1993)
La Chiesa (1989)
Palombella Rossa (1988)
Demoni 2 (1986)
Les Miserables (Misenaries) (2000)
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OTHER WORKS. ( singer )
Royalize feat. Azia Argento - La Tua Lingua Sul Mio Cuore (Album: RYLZ)
Mondo Musica feat. Azia - Angel
DJ Gruffetti feat. Asia Argento - Love Ya
Trash Palace feat. Brian Molko and Asia Argento - Je T'Aime, Moi Non Plus (Album: Positions)
Slicker feat. Asia Argento - Hard Track (Album: The Latest)
Hector Zazou feat. Asia Argento - Double Jeu (Album: L'Absence)
Asia sang on the album Lou Etendue by Toog.
She has also lent her vocals to the French band Archigram.
Asia and Morgan created a band called 23 A.M. A. and M. are their initials and 23 is their lucky number. They sing in English and their musical style is electronic. Their music was influenced by the eighties' Depeche Mode and the Deftones.
In addition to these collaborations, Ms. Argento was the muse for the following songs: Aria by Morgan (Album: Canzoni Dell'Appartamento) and Asia Argento by the group Hondo Maclean (Album: Plans For A Better Day).
( WRITER )
She has written three books, two of which were published at an early age. "One was a poetry book and the other was a short novel about Good and Evil... like in the future. It was sort of (like) 'Face Off', these two guys - one was sick of being evil and the other was sick of being good so one became the other... sort of archetype. I was eight when I wrote that. The other I wrote from five to eight. I wrote another book but I lost that and never found it again."
I Love You Kirk - Edizioni Frassinelli, 1999 (Italy)
Je T'Aime Kirk - Éditions Florent Massot, 2001 (France)
Screenplays for 'The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things', 'L'Assenzio', 'Loredasia', 'Scarlet Diva' and the 'Prospettive' episode from 'DeGenerazione'.
She is also the author of a number of short stories published in such prestigious magazines as Dynamo, L’Espresso, Sette, Village and Max.
(MODELLING/COMMERCIALS)
Renault Max, 2000 (Italy)
Marc Jacobs, 2002
Jeremy Scott, Fall/Winter Collection 2003
Ecko Unltd., Fall 2003
She is the spokesmodel for her sister Fiore's clothing line.
She also participates in some fashion shows from time to time as well.
Miss Sixty 2005-2006 campaign by Jean-Baptiste Mondino.
(ACTING COACH)
She was Jimmy Bennett's acting coach for the film 'Hostage' (2005)
(VOICE)
She supplied the voice of the hideously deformed dwarf in Dario's "Phenomena" (1985).
Provided the voice of the young girl in the Italian version of "Opera" (1987), which was also a bit of a frustrating experience because she wanted the part herself.
Voiced the puppet Habagail Folger in "Live Freaky Die Freaky" (2006).
ASIA ARGENTO's Details
Status:
Married
Here for:
Networking, Friends
Orientation:
Bi
Body type:
Athletic
Religion:
Agnostic
Zodiac Sign:
Virgo
Smoke / Drink:
Yes / Yes
Children:
Proud parent
Education:
College graduate
ASIA ARGENTO I LOVE TOO Posted at 12:50 PM Jun 13 view more
About me: Asia Aria Anna Maria Vittoria Rossa Argento (born September 20, 1975) is an Italian television and film actress and director.
Asia Argento was born in Rome. The City of Rome's register office refused to acknowledge Asia as an appropriate name, and instead officially inscribed her as Aria Argento. Despite this, she uses the name Asia Argento professionally. ("Asia" is pronounced [ˈaːsia] in Italian). Her mother is actress Daria Nicolodi and her father is Dario 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 great-grandfather was composer Alfredo Casella. Argento has said that as a child she was lonely and depressed due, in part, to her parents' work. Her father used to read her his scripts as bedtime stories. At age eight, Asia published a book of poems. At the age of fourteen, Asia ran away from her house. She was also an introvert and read to make up for having no friends.
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. She said: "I was afraid to go out of my apartment for a long time, I could only go out to work."
Asia Argento has mentioned in interviews that she does not have a close relationship with her father. She has mentioned that he was absent when she was a child. She has also mentioned that she did not have a happy childhood. Regarding her relationship with her father and her reason for acting, she has stated that:
“ I never acted out of ambition; I acted to gain my father’s attention. It took a long time for him to notice me – I started when I was nine, and he only cast me when I was 16. And he only became my father when he was my director. I always thought it was sick to choose looking at yourself on a big screen as your job. There has to be something crooked in your mind to want to be loved by everybody. It’s like being a prostitute, to share that intimacy with all those people. ”
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