Asia Argento

Asia Argento (born Aria Maria Vittoria Rossa Argento; 20 September 1975) is an Italian actress, singer, model, and director.

Her mother is actress von Daria Nicolodi and her father is Dario de Silber, 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,[9] 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 inoffizielle fortsetzung, Die Kirche (The Church), when she was 14, and Trauma (1993), when she was 18. She received the David di Donatello (Italien 's version of the Academy Award for Best Actress in 1994 for her leistung in Perdiamoci di vista, and again in 1996 for reisebegleiter, which also earned her zu Grolla d' oro award. 1998, Silber begann appearing in English-language movies, such as B. Monkey and New Rose Hotel.

Silber has proven her ability to work in multiple languages, adding French, with a role as Charlotte de Sauve, 1994 ' s " La Reine Margot. That same year, she made her first foray into directing, calling the shots behind-the short films and Perspektiven zurück. In 1996, she directed a documentary on her father, and 1998 a second one-on-one Abel Ferrara, which won her the Rome Film Festival Award.

Silber 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 Betrügerischen Above All Things, based on a book by JT LeRoy, the pen name of Laura Albert, this time in the United States.