Biography

Rome's city registry office refused to acknowledge ''Asia'' as an appropriate name, and instead officially inscribed her as Aria Argento.
She grew up in the entertainment industry. For three days following her birth, her parents projected Gone with the Wind on the living room wall.
As Asia grew older, she was gradually exposed to other genres of film, notably her father's slasher movies, beginning when she was six years old with a viewing of Deep Red -- a film which, incidentally, starred her mother.
She received the David di Donatello (Italy's response to 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, Asia made her American film debut in the movies B. Monkey and New Rose Hotel, alongside Christopher Walken.
Asia has also proven her ability to work in multiple tongues, 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. Her feature directorial debut came in 2000's Scarlet Diva, a film that she also and starred in.

In 2001, a great deal of attention was drawn to an alleged hit-and-run that Asia was involved in, and her position in this incident wasn't helped by the fact that a bottle of absinthe was found in her car (the liqueur was to be used as a prop in a music video that Asia was directing).
In June of 2001, Asia gave birth to her first child, Anna Lou. The father is musician Marco Castoldi (''Morgan'') from the Italian band Bluvertigo. Asia is slated to appear in two movies in 2002: the French feature La Sirene Rouge and the American action thriller, XXX, with Vin Diesel.
In addition to her accomplishments in the world of film, Asia 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..

Filmography

Last Days (2005) .... Asia
The Doll Is Mine (2005) .... Cindy Sherman
Milady (2004) (TV) .... Sally La Chèvre
The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things (2004) .... Sarah
The Keeper (2004) .... Gina
Live Freaky Die Freaky (2003) (voice) .... Habagail Folger
Starring (2003)
Ginostra (2002) .... The nun
xXx (2002) .... Yelena
Sirène rouge, La (2002) .... Anita
Morsures de l'aube, Les (2001) .... Violaine Charlier
Assenzio, L' (2001)
Loredasia (2000)
"Misérables, Les" (2000) (mini) TV Series .... Éponine Thénardier
Scarlet Diva (2000) .... Anna Battista
Tua lingua sul mio cuore, La (1999)
Fantasma dell'opera, Il (1998) .... Christine Daae
B. Monkey (1998) .... Beatrice
New Rose Hotel (1998) .... Sandii
Viola bacia tutti (1998) .... Viola
Sindrome di Stendhal, La (1996) .... Det. Anna Manni
Compagna di viaggio (1996) .... Cora
Cielo è sempre più blu, Il (1995) .... Cousin
Reine Margot, La (1994) .... Charlotte of Sauve
Perdiamoci di vista! (1994) .... Arianna
DeGenerazione (1994) .... Lorna
Trauma (1993) .... Aura Petrescu
Condannato a nozze (1993) .... Olivia
Amiche del cuore, Le (1992) .... Simona
Chiesa, La (1989) .... Lotte
Palombella rossa (1989) .... Valentina
Zoo (1989) .... Martina
Demoni 2 (1986) .... Ingrid Haller
"Sogni e bisogni" (1984) (mini) TV Series .... Asia Argento

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