Scene from Boarding Gate (2007)

Alternate Names: Asia Aria Maria Vittoria Rossa Argento, 아시아 아르젠토, Азия Ардженто, アーシア・アルジェント, آسیا آرجنتو

Physical Characteristics:

• Height: 5′ 6″ (1.68 m)
• Eye Color: brown
• Hair Color: brown hair

First Appearances:

• Demons 2 (1986) as Ingrid Haller

Most Important Roles:

• Last Days (2005) as Asia
• Interstate (2024) as Anna
• The Phantom of the Opera (1998) as Christine Daaé
• Marie Antoinette (2006) as Comtesse du Barry
• The Last Mistress (2007) as Vellini
• B. Monkey (1999) as Beatrice
• New Rose Hotel (1999) as Sandii
• Land of the Dead (2005) as Slack
• Scarlet Diva (2000) as Anna Battista
• xXx (2002) as Yelena

Career Highlights:

• Last Days (2005)
• Interstate (2024)
• The Phantom of the Opera (1998)
• Marie Antoinette (2006)
• The Last Mistress (2007)
• B. Monkey (1999)
• New Rose Hotel (1999)
• Land of the Dead (2005)
• Scarlet Diva (2000)
• xXx (2002)

Awards:

• Nominated for 1 Un Certain Regard Award (2014)
• Nominated for 1 C.I.C.A.E. Award (2004)
• Nominated for 1 SACD Prize - Directors' Fortnight (2004)
• Won David - Best Actress (Migliore Attrice Protagonista) (1997)
• Won David - Best Actress (Migliore Attrice Protagonista) (1994)
• Nominated for 1 International Fantasy Film Award - Best Film (1995)
• Nominated for 1 Art Cinema Award (2014)
• Won Bronze Gryphon - Best Actress (1988)
• Nominated for 1 Silver Ribbon - Best Screenplay (Migliore Sceneggiatura) (2014)
• Nominated for 1 Silver Ribbon - Best Actress (Migliore Attrice Protagonista) (2006)
• Nominated for 1 Silver Ribbon - Best Actress (Migliore Attrice Protagonista) (1997)
• Nominated for 1 Silver Ribbon - Best Actress (Migliore Attrice Protagonista) (1995)
• Nominated for 1 Silver Ribbon - Best Supporting Actress (Migliore Attrice Non Protagonista) (1994)
• Won Outstanding Achievement Award - Acting (2003)
• Won Best Actress (2003)
• Won Audience Award (1994)
• Nominated for 1 Best Film (1994)
• Won Certificate of Excellence - Best New Director (2001)
• Won German Independence Honorary Award (1999)
• Nominated for 1 Chainsaw Award - Best Actress (2000)

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 great-grandfather 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 (Italy's 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 d'oro award. In 1998, Argento began appearing in English-language 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 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.

Argento directed and wrote her first movie, Scarlet Diva (2000), which her father co-produced. 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.