Asia Argento (full name Asia Aria Anna Maria Vittoria Rossa Argento) was born on September 20, 1975 in Rome, Italy. She was born into a family with a film industry background. Her mother, Daria Nicolodi is an Italian actress and her father Dario Argento is a screenwriter, producer and director. She had a difficult childhood and found it hard to relate to other kids.
Argento made the comparison between acting and prostitution saying that acting and sharing your emotions on screen with everyone is a little like prostitution. Thus her reasons for acting were to get her much absent father's attention, not to promote herself. None the less, she started acting at the age of nine and was cast in one of her father's films at 14. She appeared in another one of his films, "Trauma" (1993), at 18. She was awarded with a David di Donatello in 1994 for Best Actress, for the movie "Perdiamoci di vista!" also earned a Grolla d'oro award in 1996 for her performance in "Compagna di viaggio". In 1998 she appeared in a movie called "New Rose Hotel", also starring Christopher Walken. In 1994 she started directing as well in movies such as "Prospettive" in 1996 in a documentary about her father. For her documentary on Abel Ferrara she received the Rome Film Festival Award in 1998. The film "Scarlet Diva" from 2000 was written and directed by the talented Argento. While writing "Scarlet Diva", Argento admits to becoming agoraphobic and rarely leaving her apartment before it was finished. In 2004 she also directed the film "The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things".
She has two children, Anna Lou, born in 2001, whose father is an Italian rocker Marco Castoldi and Nicola Giovanni, born in 2008, whom she had with her current husband, a film director from Italy, Michele Civetta.
