Asia Argento
Birth name	Asia Aria Anna Maria Vittoria Rossa Argento
Born	September 20, 1975 (1975-09-20) (age 31) Rome, Italy
Other name(s)	Aria Argento
Official site	Asia Argento Official site

Asia Aria Anna Maria Vittoria Rossa Argento (born 20 September 1975, Rome) is an Italian television and film actress and director. In Rome, the city'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 ['a:sia] in Italian. is the 263rd day of the year (264th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1975 (MCMLXXV) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_Italy. ... The Roman Colosseum Rome (Italian and Latin Roma) is the capital city of Italy, and of its Lazio region. ... is the 263rd day of the year (264th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1975 (MCMLXXV) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Nickname: Motto: SPQR: Senatus Populusque Romanus Location of the city of Rome (yellow) within the Province of Rome (red) and region of Lazio (grey) Coordinates: Region Lazio Province Province of Rome Founded 21 April 753 BC Government  - Mayor Walter Veltroni Area  - City 1,285 km²  (580 sq mi)  - Urban 5... Film is a term that encompasses individual motion pictures, the field of film as an art form, and the motion picture industry. ... Actors in period costume sharing a joke whilst waiting between takes during location filming. ... The film director, on the right, gives last minute direction to the cast and crew, whilst filming a costume drama on location in London. ... Articles with similar titles include the NATO phonetic alphabet, which has also informally been called the “International Phonetic Alphabet”. For information on how to read IPA transcriptions of English words, see IPA chart for English. ...

Background

Family and early life

Her mother is the 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 first child, Anna Lou, was born on 20 June 2001. Italian rock and roll musician Marco Castoldi (lead singer of Bluvertigo), also known as Morgan, is the father. Daria Nicolodi is an Italian actress born on the 19th of June in Florence, Italy. ... Dario Argento (born September 7, 1940) is an Italian film director, producer and screenwriter. ... S.S. Van Dines The Benson Murder Case, the first giallo ever published (1929). ... is the 171st day of the year (172nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2001 (MMI) was a common year starting on Monday (link displays the 2001 Gregorian calendar). ... Rock and roll (also spelled Rock n Roll, especially in its first decade), also called rock, is a form of popular music, usually featuring vocals (often with vocal harmony), electric guitars and a strong back beat; other instruments, such as the saxophone, are common in some styles. ... “Instrumentalist” redirects here. ...

Career

Asia Argento was directed by her father Dario Argento in one of her first works, 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. The year 1993 in film involved many significant films. ... David di Donatello is a prestigious movie award assigned each year for cinematic performances and production by Ente David di Donatello, part of Accademia del Cinema Italiano. ... New Rose Hotel is a 1998 film by director Abel Ferrara, based on a William Gibson story of the same name, starring Christopher Walken, Willem Dafoe and Asia Argento (Darios daughter). ... Christopher Walken (born March 31, 1943) is an Academy Award-winning American film and theatre actor. ...

Argento has also 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) and four years later she directed her second movie, The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things (2004), this time in the United States. Queen Margot (Original French title La Reine Margot) is a 1994 French-German-Italian film, based on the 1845 historical novel Queen Margot by Alexandre Dumas. ... Born July 15, 1951 in The Bronx, Ferrara started his career in his teens, making amateur films on Super 8. ... The film director, on the right, gives last minute direction to the cast and crew, whilst filming a costume drama on location in London. ... A writer is anyone who creates a written work, although the word more usually designates those who write creatively or professionally, or those who have written in many different forms. ... DVD cover Scarlet Diva is a 2000 Italian movie by actress and first time director and writer Asia Argento. ... The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things is a 2004 film directed by and starring Asia Argento. ...

In addition to her accomplishments in the world of film, 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. Taking their name from a character in 80s cartoon series M.A.S.K., Hondo Maclean were a post-hardcore/metalcore outfit from Bridgend, South Wales. ... Chasing Angels EP is the second studio EP by Welsh Post-hardcore band Hondo Maclean. ...

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 p.m. 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 as well as journaling 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.

Tattoos

An Eye 

"It's on my shoulder, I got it on my first trip to Amsterdam when I was 14. I was so high on hash, and while I knew that I wanted an eye, I really didn't know how I wanted it. The guy at the tattoo place felt sorry for me, and anyway he did it."

Two Snakes and a Sun 

"It's over my ass. I did the two snakes in Minneapolis when I was shooting Trauma. I was 16. The sun that's in between, I did that in Amsterdam (again) when I was 17. The snakes were taken from a Medusa statue that I saw in Rome, and they were intertwined around her waist. And the sun... I dunno, I drew it... but all these tattoos, I have to say, I would have a million symbolic reasons that were very true at the time I was having the tattoo, very romantic in a way. You could say: "I got this tattoo for a reason" but not really, I really liked those drawings, and this is the bottom line."

An Angel 

"It's taken from a painting by the Belgian painter Delvaux... But she's not an angel, I added the wings. And I did it there (rising from her pubis mound) not for some sexual iconography of a flying pussy, but more to hide it from my father, who was not so happy about me having all these tattoos. I remember when I finally showed it to him, like three years after, 'cos I managed to hide it for a couple of years, he said that now I could fulfil my dream and work in the circus as the tattooed wonder"

Anna 

"The last one I got, and maybe it's the only one I got for a reason. It's my sister's name (the deceased Anna - who Scarlet Diva is dedicated to) on my ribs. Because I remembered this line by Blixa Bargeld: "I don't know who has cut you off my ribs" - as of Eve for Adam. it looks like a jail tattoo, something very dirty"

23 

Located on the back of her neck.

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Selected filmography

• Désengagement (2007)
• The Third Mother (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 The Marilyn Manson music video (2003)
• xXx (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)

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XXX movie poster XXX (also written xXx), pronounced Triple X, is a 2002 action movie starring Vin Diesel. ... This is a list of film-related events in 2002. ... DVD cover Scarlet Diva is a 2000 Italian movie by actress and first time director and writer Asia Argento. ... This is a list of film-related events in 2000. ... This article is about the Gaston Leroux novel. ... // February 14 - Sharon Stone marries Phil Bronstein. ... // February 14 - Sharon Stone marries Phil Bronstein. ... New Rose Hotel is a 1998 film by director Abel Ferrara, based on a William Gibson story of the same name, starring Christopher Walken, Willem Dafoe and Asia Argento (Darios daughter). ... // February 14 - Sharon Stone marries Phil Bronstein. ... Stendhal syndrome or Stendhals syndrome is a psychosomatic illness that causes rapid heartbeat, dizziness, confusion and even hallucinations when the individual is exposed to an overdose of beautiful art, paintings and artistic masterpieces. ... The year 1996 in film involved some significant events. ... Queen Margot (Original French title La Reine Margot) is a 1994 French-German-Italian film, based on the 1845 historical novel Queen Margot by Alexandre Dumas. ... // November 1 - George Lucas leaves the day-to-day operations of his filmmaking business and starts a sabbatical (while on sabbatical, he wrote the prequel Star Wars trilogy). ... Trauma is a 1993 film directed by Dario Argento who also co-wrote the screenplay. ... The year 1993 in film involved many significant films. ... The Church, or La Chiesa in original Italian is a 1989 Italian horror film written and produced by Dario Argento and directed by Michele Soavi. ... // April 12 - Actor Morgan Mason marries The Go-Gos Belinda Carlisle Actor Arnold Schwarzenegger marries television journalist Maria Shriver. ...

External links

• Authorized Asia Argento fansite
• Asia Argento at the Internet Movie Database
• Asia Argento Official site
• IHT: Asia Argento (05/2007)
• Guardian: Asia Argento (07/2006)
• Index magazine interview (2001)