Asia Argento

Asia Aria Anna Maria Vittoria Rossa Argento born on 20 September 1975 in Rome, Italy 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.







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 American movies such as B. Monkey and New Rose Hotel with Christopher Walken and xxx with Samuel L Jackson