Asia Argento
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Asia Argento at 2012 Cannes Film Festival
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| Born |
Aria Maria Vittoria Rossa Argento 20 September 1975 Rome, Italy |
| Other names | Aria Argento |
| Occupation | Actress, director, singer, model, DJ, writer |
| Years active | 1985–present |
| Spouse(s) | Michele Civetta (m. 2008; div. 2013) |
| Partner(s) | Marco Castoldi (2000–2006) |
| Children | 2 |
| Parent(s) |
Dario Argento Daria Nicolodi |
| Relatives |
Claudio Argento (uncle) Salvatore Argento (grandfather) Alfredo Casella (maternal great-grandfather) Fiore Argento (half-sister) Anna Ceroli (half-sister) |
Asia Argento (born Aria Maria Vittoria Rossa Argento; 20 September 1975) is an Italian actress, singer, model, and director. Argento is best known for portraying her role as Yelena in the action film xXx, the first installment in the xXx franchise.
Her mother is 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 maternal great-grandfather was composer Alfredo Casella.
When Asia Argento was born in Rome, the city registry office refused to acknowledge Asia as an appropriate name, and instead officially inscribed her as Aria (a name accepted by the city registry). She nonetheless always went by the name Asia, which she later used professionally. Argento has said that as a child she was lonely and depressed, owing in part to her parents' work. Her father used to read her his scripts as bedtime stories. At age eight, Argento published a book of poems. At the age of 14, she ran away from home. She was an introvert and read to make up for having no friends.
In an interview with Filmmaker magazine she stated that she was agoraphobic while she was writing Scarlet Diva and that she could not leave her apartment for months. She said: "I was afraid to go out of my apartment for a long time, I could only go out to work."
Argento has mentioned in interviews that she does not have a close relationship with her father. She has mentioned that he was absent when she was a child. She has also mentioned that she did not have a happy childhood. Regarding her relationship with her father and her reason for acting, she has stated that:
I never acted out of ambition; I acted to gain my father's attention. It took a long time for him to notice me – I started when I was nine, and he only cast me when I was 16. And he only became my father when he was my director. I always thought it was sick to choose looking at yourself on a big screen as your job. There has to be something crooked in your mind to want to be loved by everybody. It's like being a prostitute, to share that intimacy with all those people.
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