Asia Argento Biography, Age, Family, Education, Career, Net Worth, Marriage

Who is Asia Argento?

Asia Argento is an Italian actress and filmmaker, and a daughter to filmmaker Dario Argento. She has appeared in various of her father’s works and earned mainstream success. Asia’s success was after her appearances in XXX (2002), Land of the Dead (2005), and Marie Antoinette (2006).

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She has also been recognized for her acting in various movies including Let’s Not Keep in Touch (1994), Queen Margot (1994), Traveling Companion (1996), Last Days (2005), and Islands (2011). Argento has received various awards which include three Golden Globes and two David di Donatello awards for Best Actress. She has also directed films such as The Heart is Deceitful Above All Things (2004) and Misunderstood (2004).

Asia became the leader of the ”#MeToo” movement after the Weinstein scandal in 2017. The New York Times detailed allegations in August 2018, that she sexually abused actor Jimmy Bennett in 2013, who was 17 and she was 37.

How old is Asia Argento?

Aged 46 as of 2021, Asia was born as Aria Maria Vittoria Rossa Argento on September 20, 1975, in Rome Italy. She shares her birthday with numerous famous people which include  Aldis Hodge, Ben Shepherd, Charlie Weber, Chuck Panozzo, Crystle Stewart, Debbi Morgan, Deborah Roberts, and many more.

Asia Argento Family

Who are Argento’s parents?

Aria Maria Vittoria Rossa Argento was born to Dario Argento and Daria Nicolodi in Rome. Her father is an Italian filmmaker who influenced modern horror and slasher movies. On the other hand, her mother was an actress. Composer Alfredo Casella was her maternal great-grandfather and Claudio Argento was her uncle while her grandparents are Salvatore Argento and Elio Luxardo.

Her mother remarried Mario Ceroli and bore a girl named Anna Ceroli. Her father also remarried Marisa Casale and had one child together Fiore Argento. Marisa later gave birth to Gioia Casale. Her relationship with her father was not very close and her childhood was lonely and depressed as he was absent when she was young. Her father only noticed her at age 16 and cast her in his movies, where she now felt his presence.

Does Argento have siblings?

Argento was born to her parents as an only child. However, she has two half-siblings, Fiore Argento born after her father’s remarriage, and Anna Ceroli after her mother remarried. Anna died in a motorcycle accident in 1994.

Asia Argento Education

Argento’s educational background is unknown as it has not been updated to the public and remains as part of her private life.

Asia Argento Interests

Apart from acting, Argento has great interests in music and also in writing and directing films. She actually quit acting to pursue her writing and directing interests.

Asia Argento Partners

Argento has been in several relationships with several partners. She dated (Morgan) Marco Castoldi from 2000 to 2006 while dating Michael Pitt from 2003 to 2004. She also had a relationship with Anthony Bourdain from 2017 to 2018 when he died.

Asia has only been married once to Michele Civetta from 2008 to 2013 when they divorced. They have one child, a son together.

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Asia Argento Children

Argento has two children collectively from her relationships. Her first child, daughter Anna Lou Castoldi was born on June 20, 2001, with her then-partner Morgan. The second-born, son Nicola Glovanni Civetta was born on 15th September 2008 with her ex-husband Michele Civetta.

Asia Argento residence

Presently Argento lives in Los Angeles with her two children.

Asia Argento Height

Argento’s stunning and modeling body has a height of 5 ft 6 in (1.68 m).

Asia Argento Career

Asia started acting at age nine after she was cast in a brief role in a movie by Sergio Citti. At age 16, she played in her father’s movie Trauma (1993). She acquired the David di Dontello (Italy’s version of the Academy Award) for Best Actress in 1994 for her performance in Persiamoci di vista. Also in 1996 for Compagna di viaggio earning her a Grolla d’oro award. Asia then started to perform in English-language films including B Monkey and New Rose Hotel (both 1998). She also played in French-language roles, starting with Charlotte de Sauve La Reine Margot (1994).

Around 1994, Argento made her initial raid into directing with the brief movies Prospettive and A ritroso (both in 1994). She also directed a documentary on her father (1996) and Abel Ferrara (1998). Asia directed and wrote her first fiction feature movie Scarlet Diva (2000) and her father co-produced it. Argento gained greater fame after she played Russian undercover spy Yelena in the Hollywood action movie XXX (2002) opposite Vin Diesel. She rose to international popularity after the movie grossed $277.4 million. Formally based on a book by JT LeRoy, Asia directed her second feature movie, The Heart is Deceitful Above All Things.

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She has additionally starred in Catherine Breillat’s period drama The Last Mistress. From 2008 to 2009, she dubbed the Italian version of the video game Mirror’s Edge in the role of the runner Faith Connors. She has been part of the Legendary Tiger Man’s project Femina, which was launched on 14 September 2009. Argento was featured on the track ”Life Ain’t Enough for you, which was launched as a single. It was launched together with the B-side ”My stomach is the most violent of all Italy” in which she contributed vocals

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Her breakout album, titled Total Entropy, was launched by Nuun Music in May 2013. She also appeared in a supporting role in the British movie Shongram. The movie is a fictional romantic drama based around the factual and historical events of the 1971 Bangladesh Liberation War. Additionally, she directed her third feature movie, named Misunderstood (2014). She was then picked to compete in the Un Certain Regard segment at that year’s Cannes Film Festival. In the same year as she promoted the movie, she mentioned that she was quitting acting to take her time on writing and directing.

Other achievements

Despite her cinematic accomplishments, she has also written a variety of stories for magazines consisting of Dynamo and L’Espresso. Her initial novel named I Love You Kirk, was published in Italy in 1999. Argento is a big fan of the band, Hondo Maclean after they wrote a song titled after her. She liked the song very much that she sent them pictures which they put as the cover of their 2003 album Plans for a Better Day. Asia later appeared in Placebo’s track video for ”This Picture”, and also on Placebo frontman Brian Molko’s cover version of ”Je t’aime…moi non plus”.

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Asia Argento Net Worth

Italian actress, model, director, and singer Argento has been active from 1986 to date. She has garnered up an estimated net worth of $1 million as of 2021.

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