Actor, Model, Singer, Film director, Screenwriter, Disc jockey
Nationality
Italy
Spouse
Michele Civetta (m. 2008–2013)
Children
Anna Lou Castoldi, Nicola Giovanni Civetta
Parents
Dario Argento, Daria Nicolodi
Siblings
Fiore Argento, Anna Ceroli
Partner
Morgan
Nicknames
Aria Asia Maria Vittoria Rossa Argento , Aria Argento , Asia Aria Anna Maria Vittoria Rossa Argento , Asia Aria Maria Vittoria Rossa Argento , Silver Gems , Az , Asiaargento23
Awards
David di Donatello for Best Actress
Nominations
Nastro d'Argento for Best Screenplay
Movies
XXX, Scarlet Diva, Misunderstood, Dracula 3D, The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things, The Stendhal Syndrome, The Mother of Tears, The Last Mistress, Land of the Dead, B. Monkey, The Phantom of the Opera, Boarding Gate, La Reine Margot, New Rose Hotel, Marie Antoinette, Demons 2, Go Go Tales, Trauma...
TV Shows
Les Misérables
Star Sign
Virgo
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Trademark
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Often dresses in black
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Quote
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Movies have saved my life and I'm so grateful. I'm so shy and weird that if I didn't find a place in the world through movies, I don't know what I would've become.
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Italy to me is like the mean mother. Whatever I do, it's never good enough. People say I'm the queen of Cannes, but in Italy I get turned down for work.
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In Italy people think I'm a cliché. The dark lady, the bitch from hell. All they can see is that I'm naked.
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I always saw myself as really ugly. My father even told me I was ugly because I would shave my head and look like a boy. Then, when I was 21, I was offered this part in a movie where I was supposed to be really sexy [Michael Radford's B. Monkey (1998)]. It was strange for me to have to research femininity, but I found out these tricks for getting attention that I didn't know before. It was a kind of revenge, I guess, on all the kids who said I was ugly at school.
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After xXx (2002) came out, because of all the publicity, I was wearing Prada and going to the gym, and I had an agent in L.A. and all this shit that I've avoided for years. I felt that was expected of me, that I had to be a sexy bombshell. I started receiving all these offers for these kick-ass chick sort of roles. But it didn't make me very happy, to tell the truth, and after giving birth, it all felt different. I don't mean to sound like a bourgeois moralist, but it's true--I started thinking, "What is Anna [her daughter] going to think?"
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I tend to be a lazy actress, unless I'm pushed. Most of the time nothing much is required of directors, which is a pity. I've worked with very few directors who've asked of me what I asked of myself.
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In a way, when you talk so much about something, it does not belong to you any more. It's happened to me and my bad memories. I've manipulated them and now they could be parts of Gone with the Wind (1939).
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The questions about my father [director Dario Argento] get less and less, and I'm relieved about that. No, I wasn't upset by the things he did to me in his films. I never thought of it like it was me doing it, because he would say, "It's only a movie," and I thought the same.
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I have nothing in my life besides my work. I am obsessed with it. I leave my house only when I'm forced to. All my life, I have felt that what I did was wrong. But now when I work I feel good about it.
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Sometimes I think my father [director Dario Argento] gave me life because he needed a lead actress for his films.
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I care only about that. Almost only about cinema.
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I want to be adopted by the French. I want to go to live in Paris. I want to live in a country where a guy like Gaspar Noé can direct his films without going to jail. I don't want to live in Italy, the country of the apes, and end up being an actress with an onion placed where I once had a heart, that instead of beating, it stinks.
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[in answer to the question "How do you want to be remembered?"] As somebody who has done everything, but didn't know how to do anything.
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During the shooting of my directorial debut, I must never let myself go to any goliardery, even if I might think I am missing some fun, never mingle with the rest of the crew, because they are actors while I am the mirth of a rickety poem. They are solo artists, virtuosos - but I am the orchestra, the strings carpet where everybody has to lay. They are the public, while I am tonight's special event. I allow them to be instantly well-liked, but I must remain rigorous to reveal my eyes, I have to act out the things that never happen. When I think of my film, I don't take anything from the reality that I know, I suck only from the utopia/reality I would want to live. When I say my lines, the I have written for myself, I think about this, of a womb-like world where amniotic liquids protect me from injustices and the boogey man.
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Fact
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Living in Rome. [June 2007]
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Resides in Los Angeles, California. [February 2004]
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Served as a juror at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival.
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Her second child is a boy named Nicola Giovanni (b. September 15th, 2008) with her ex-husband Michele Civetta.
Claims that she fell in love with Marco Castoldi, singer of Bluvertigo and father of her daughter Anna Lou, at first sight.
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Ran away from home at 14.
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The Welsh Hardcore/metal band Hondo Maclean, named a song after her. Once she heard it, she offered to do a publicity photo for them. It appeared on the back of their "Plans for a Better Day" EP.
Her maternal grandmother, Fulvia Casella, was the daughter of Alfredo Casella, one of the most important composers of Italian Futurism, and of his wife, Yvonne Müller, who was a French Jew.
Her first child is a daughter named Anna Lou born June 20, 2001, in Lugano, Switzerland, with her former partner Marco Castoldi. Anna Lou is named after Asia's half-sister Anna Ceroli, who died in a motorcycle accident in 1994.
$15 Million
