Asia Aria Anna Maria Vittoria Rossa Argento ( Italian: Asia Aria Anna Maria Vittoria Rossa Argento ; born September 20, 1975 ) is an Italian actress , film director , screenwriter , writer and singer.
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| Birth name | Asia Aria Anna Maria Vittoria Rosa Argento |
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| Profession | actress filmmaker screenwriter singer |
| Career | 1986 - to this day |
| Awards | " David di Donatello " ( 1994 , 1997 ) |
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Biography
Daughter of the Italian film director Dario Argento and actress Daria Nicolodi .
She began acting in television films from the age of 9. In 1992, Argento played in the film Michele Placido " Hearty Friends ". The following year, she appeared in her father 's picture "Trauma . " In 1994, the actress received the Italian national film award “ David di Donatello ” as the best actress for her role in Carlo Verdone ’s film “ We Will No More Meet ” ( Italian: Perdiamoci di vista! ) A year later, she got the role of Charlotte de Owls in the scandalous film “Queen Margot” . The second time Argento was awarded in 1997 for her role in Peter del Monte 's The Fellow Traveler .
In 1994, the directorial debut of Argento took place, she shot two short films “Prospettive” and “A ritroso”. In 1996, a documentary was released about the father of Dario Argento. In 1998, Argento made a film about Abel Ferrara (prize at the Rome Film Festival ). Since 1998, she began playing in American cinema, starring in the movie " Hotel New Rose" by Abel Ferrara .
In 2000, Argento's first full-length feature film, The Purple Diva , was released in which she played the main role. This dramatic film with elements of eroticism tells the story of 24-year-old movie star Anna Batista, whose life is a series of new lovers and constant hangouts. This continues until Anna finds her love.
The year 2004 was marked by the second full-length film of Asia by Argento - an adaptation of the scandalous autobiographical novel by American author Jay T Leroy “Chicks” . It is dedicated to the fate of 6-year-old boy Jeremy, who lives with his prostitute mother, whose role was played by Argento herself. She leads a dissolute lifestyle, regularly changing lovers and experimenting with drugs. The role of one of her lovers was played by the American shock rocker Marilyn Manson . In addition, Peter Fonda , Ornella Muti and Winona Ryder took part in the film.
In 2006, Asia Argento was invited to play Madame Dubarry in the Sofia Coppola Maria Antoinette film .
In 2014, another Asian feature film, Understand Me If You Can, was released. The picture tells about a girl named Aria, whose eccentric parents constantly scandal and do not pay the slightest attention to their daughter. Brian Molko , the leader of the British alternative rock band Placebo, worked on the music for the film, with which Asia sang Serge Gainsbourg 's song “ Je t'aime ... moi non plus ” several years earlier.
Argento is also the author of short stories published in several Italian magazines.
Personal life
Her firstborn, Anna Lu, was born in 2001. Her father is Italian rock and roll musician Marco Castoldi (lead singer of Bluvertigo), also known as Morgan. She named her daughter after her sister Anna Caroli, who died in a motorcycle accident.
Argento married director Michelle Civett on August 27, 2008 in Arezzo [1] . Her second child, Nicolas Giovanni, was born in 2008 in Rome. The couple divorced in 2013. She and her children live in Vigna Clara, north of Rome.
In early 2017, several Italian news sources reported that Argento had a relationship with celebrity chef Anthony Bourdin. Bourdin committed suicide in Kaisersberg-Vignoble, Upper Rhine, France, on June 8, 2018.
Asia has a tense relationship with many Hollywood stars. The most controversial is the situation with Jennifer Aniston , which Asia accuses of not allowing her then-husband Brad Pitt to star in Argento's Asian film, suspecting him of possible treason. During one of the meetings, Asia launched a glass of wine in the head of Jennifer [1] .
Creativity
Filmography
| Year | Russian name | original name | Role | |
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| 1985 | with | Dreams and Reality | Sogni e bisogni | Giada |
| 1986 | f | Demons 2 | Dèmoni 2: L'incubo ritorna | Ingrid Haller |
| 1987 | with | Another night | Turno di notte | character name unknown |
| 1989 | f | Zoo | Zoo | Martina |
| 1989 | f | Cathedral | La chiesa | Lotte |
| 1989 | f | Red Dove | Red lob | Valentine |
| 1992 | f | Hearty Friends | Close friends | Simone |
| 1993 | f | Sentenced to marriage | Condannato a nozze | Olivia |
| 1993 | f | Injury | Trauma | Aura Petrescu |
| 1994 | f | DeGradation (Generation) | DeGenerazione | Lorna |
| 1994 | f | We will not meet again | Perdiamoci di vista! | Arianna |
| 1994 | f | Queen Margo | La reine margot | Charlotte de Sov |
| 1995 | f | Remains | Il cielo è semper più blu | cousin |
| 1996 | f | Fellow traveler | Compagna di viaggio | Bark |
| 1996 | f | Stendhal syndrome | The stendhal syndrome | Anna Manny |
| 1998 | f | Viola kisses everyone | Viola bacia tutti | Viola |
| 1998 | f | Hotel "New Rose" | New rose hotel | Sandy |
| 1998 | f | Bee Manki | B. Monkey | Beatrice |
| 1998 | f | Phantom of the Opera | The phantom of the opera | Christina Day |
| 1999 | f | Your tongue is in my heart | La tua lingua sul mio cuore | character name unknown |
| 2000 | f | Purple diva | Scarlet diva | Anna Battista |
| 2000 | with | Outcasts | Les misérables | Eponina Tenardieu |
| 2000 | f | Loredasia | character name unknown | |
| 2001 | f | Absinthe | L'assenzio | character name unknown |
| 2001 | f | Dawn Bites | Les morsures de l'aube | Violen Charlier |
| 2002 | f | Red siren | La sirène rouge | Anita |
| 2002 | f | Three x | xxx | Helena |
| 2002 | f | Ginostra | Ginostra | The nun |
| 2004 | f | The keeper | The keeper | Gina |
| 2004 | f | Tiptoe | The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things | Sarah |
| 2004 | tf | Milady | Milady | Sally La Chevre |
| 2005 | f | The last days | Last days | Asia |
| 2005 | f | Cindy: My doll | Cindy: the doll is mine | Cindy Sherman / Model |
| 2005 | f | Land of the Dead | Land of the dead | Slack |
| 2006 | mf | Live terribly! Scary die! | Live freaky die freaky | Abigail Folger |
| 2006 | f | Marie Antoinette | Marie antoinette | Countess Dubarry |
| 2006 | f | Transylvania | Transylvania | Zingarina |
| 2007 | f | Boarding gate | Boarding gate | Sandra |
| 2007 | f | Strip Club Tales | Go go tales | Monroe |
| 2007 | f | Secret Mistress | Une vieille maîtresse | Wellini |
| 2007 | f | Mother of tears | Mother of tears | Sara mehndi |
| 2008 | f | In the war | On war | Crazy |
| 2009 | f | Thirteenth Division | Diamond 13 | Kalen |
| 2011 | f | Misses | Gli sfiorati | Beatrice Plana |
| 2011 | f | Kiss for happiness | Baciato dalla fortuna | Betty |
| 2011 | f | Regular boy | Stacy | |
| 2012 | f | Dracula 3D | Dracula 3D | Lucy |
| 2012 | f | Baku, I love you! | Bakı, mən səni sevirəm! | Bride |
| 2013 | f | Intrusive rhythms | Cadences obstinées | Margot |
Director
- 2000 - Purple Diva / Scarlet Diva
- 2004 - The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things
- 2014 - Understand Me If You Can / Misunderstood
Notes
Links
- Asia Argento on Instagram