Asia Argento is an Italian actress and filmmaker. The daughter of filmmaker Dario Argento, she has had roles in several of her father’s features and achieved mainstream success with appearances in XXX, Land of the Dead, and Marie Antoinette.
Meet Dario Argento and Daria Nicolodi
Argento was born Aria Maria Vittoria Rossa Argento in Rome on 20 September 1975. Her father is Dario Argento, an Italian filmmaker known for his work in the Italian giallo genre and for his influence on modern horror and slasher movies.
Her mother was actress Daria Nicolodi and her maternal great-grandfather was composer Alfredo Casella. One of her great-grandmothers was a French pianist of Jewish origin.
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 horror scripts as bedtime stories. At age eight, Argento published a book of poems.