Asia Argento

When critics and journalists call the Italian actress Asia Argento devilishly talented, they are most often expressed literally. Her unbridled temperament, passion for shocking, defiant manners and craving for everything that is forbidden in life and work - this is, rather, from the crafty, half-jokingly, half-seriously they notice. How else to explain such a versatile talent of Argento: an actress, singer, photographer, writer, clip maker, screenwriter, director.

On September 20, 1975, a daughter was born in the family of director Dario Argento and actress Daria Nikolody. The newly minted parents immediately distinguished themselves with an extravagant act, calling the baby a complex name in the manner of monarchs - Asia Aria Anna Maria Vittoria Rosa Argento.

According to one version, the parents gave the name Asia or Asya to the girl in honor of the younger sister of the poetess Marina Tsvetaeva - Anastasia. On the other - in honor of the part of the world in which they spent their honeymoon. One way or another, the city authorities of Rome refused to register the "strange" name, and the girl's document contains Aria.

The versatility of Asia-Aria's abilities is quite understandable, one has only to look at her biography: great-grandfather Alfredo Casella is a famous composer of Italy at the beginning of the 20th century, grandmother Elda Luxardo is a renowned photo artist, her father is the consummate king of the Italian genre Giallo (a mix of horror, thriller and eroticism), and mother is his faithful actress and muse.

The girl's childhood was anything you like, but not cloudless and happy. Parents, who were always busy on the set, left the baby in boarding houses, and a little later, alone in a large house.

Left alone, Asia took up a notebook and pencil and poured children's creativity onto the pages. And when I had accumulated for a whole collection, my parents helped to publish the first book of poems. The young poetess was not yet 8 years old.

However, the pastime with my parents was very peculiar. Instead of bedtime stories, the father read to his daughter his far-fetched scripts. And at the age of 6 he showed her one of his own films, containing explicit scenes of violence (later the film was severely censored). The consciousness of the child, to put it mildly, was shocked, and the director considered that he had made the first attempts to introduce his daughter to the world of cinema.

The girl really grew up artistic: she took music and choreography lessons, participated in school performances. And when Asia was 9 years old, the opportunity presented itself to play for real: the debutante was given a small role in the television series Dreams and Reality.

The second work in the cinema was not long in coming: Dario took his daughter to his new picture "The Phenomenon" (1985). In the next three years, Asia played in the horror film Demons 2 (1986), the script for which was written by her father, the films Zoo and Church (1988).

For five years, young Asia Argento was filmed almost without a break, after which, feeling independent, left home at the age of 14.

Argento was spoken about as a serious adult actress after Michele Placido's film Heartfelt Friends (1992), in which a 17-year-old girl played Simona, one of three friends with a difficult dramatic fate. Asia is taken to a new level of success by the next work in my father's projects. One by one, Dario Argento's famous thrillers are released: Trauma, Stendhal Syndrome and The Phantom of the Opera, in which his daughter shines with talent.

Her acting skills received a well-deserved award after the release of the film "Let's Not Meet Again". 19-year-old Argento won the David di Donatelo Award for Best Actress.

In the mid-90s, Asia opens its directorial filmography. After two minor short films, she began working in the documentary genre. She presented her first film dedicated to the personality of Dario Argento's father in 1996. The new documentary, filmed two years later, tells the story of the life and work of the American director Abel Ferarra. For this work, Argento received a prize at the Rome Film Festival.

Ferarra paves the way for Asia in American cinema. In 1998, he shoots a charismatic Italian woman in the film New Rose Hotel, after which Hollywood bosses invite Argento to the big-budget blockbuster Three X's (2002). Miniature Asia (height 168 cm, weight 60 kg), who played the Russian spy Elena, made up a worthy match for the brutal Vin Diesel.

It would seem that after the main role in Hollywood, the actress will begin to conquer new heights of the world film industry, but Asia, being a Virgo according to the zodiac sign, is stubborn and unpredictable. She again turns to directing, which she quit due to lack of time. This time he takes up a full-length movie.

Argento got her first experience in art direction back in 2000, when she shot the film Purple Diva, which made a lot of noise due to the abundance of eroticism. In 2004, the second Asian director's film "Chips" was released. And again, an ambiguous topic: the picture tells about 6-year-old Jeremy, who lives with his prostitute mother.

In 2014, everyone is talking about Argento's new film, Understand Me If You Can, and many find it autobiographical. The main character, the girl Aria, suffers from a lack of attention from bohemian parents. In this movie, the director also took over the work on the soundtrack. After all, music is another sphere of self-expression of the Italian diva, just like literature: in the late 90s, her first novel, I Love You, Dirk, was published.

In 2001, in a civil marriage with rock musician Marco Castoldi, Asia gave birth to a daughter, Anna Lu, whom she named after her deceased cousin Anna Caroli.

In 2008, the actress married the Italian director Michele Civetta, the couple had a son, Nicolas Giovanni. After the couple divorced in 2013, there is almost no mention of romantic ties in Asia. The actress lives with her children in the town of Vigna Claret, north of Rome, and works a lot.

Only in 2017, the media wrote about the rebel affair with the famous American chef, TV presenter and writer Anthony Bourdain. Eloquent photos in an embrace with a new lover Asia posted on Instagram in April 2017.

In the same year, the name of Asia comes up in connection with the scandal around Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein. Argento is mentioned among several other victims of rape. Later, she and actress Lucia Evans gave short interviews about what happened. And at the closing ceremony of the 2018 Cannes Film Festival, the celebrity, being an activist in the anti-violence movement #MeToo, made an official statement about the rape by Weinstein, which shocked the public.

2018 was not the easiest year for the actress in terms of her personal life. On June 8, her beloved Anthony Bourdin committed suicide in France. It is not known what prompted a famous person to take such a step, the circumstances of his death are still being investigated.

In the summer of 2018, the public was again shocked by the scandal surrounding her star name. Argento was accused of rape by actor Jimmy Bennett, who played the screen son of Asia in the movie "Chicks." He told the press that in 2013 he came to meet the actress at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Los Angeles about her role in her new film. In the room, the woman gave him a drink and entered into an intimate relationship with him, after which she made a joint picture for Instagram.

Jimmy was at that time 17 years old, Asia - 37. Bennett said that he was motivated by the Weinstein scandal to talk about the violence. He was outraged by the fact that the actress, so vehemently opposed to violence, herself had become its initiator. Bennett intends to collect $ 3.5 million from the actress and director for moral damages.

According to The New York Times, Argento agreed to pay Bennett $ 380 thousand. The circumstances of the transaction were not disclosed, the parties to the incident themselves declined to comment.

1989 - "Zoo" 1992 - "Heart Friends" 1994 - "We Will Not Meet Again" 1994 - "Queen Margot" 1996 - "Fellow Traveler" 1996 - "Stendhal Syndrome" 1998 - "Bee Monkey" 1998 - "New Rose Hotel" 2000 - "Purple Diva" 2002 - "Three X's" 2004 - "Chicks" 2005 - "Land of the Dead" 2005 - "The Last Days" 2006 - "Transylvania" 2007 - "Gateway" 2007 - "Secret Lover" 2013 - " Obsessive rhythms "

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Asia Argento Net Worth 2021

Asia Argento 's revenue is $1.4M in 2021. It is an approximate forecast of how rich is Asia Argento and could vary in the range between $534.5K - $1.9M.

Asia Argento Net Worth 2020

Asia Argento 's revenue is $2M in 2020. It is an approximate forecast of how rich is Asia Argento and could vary in the range between $579.6K - $1.7M.

Asia Argento Net Worth 2019

Asia Argento 's revenue is $1.4M in 2019. It is an approximate forecast of how rich is Asia Argento and could vary in the range between $998.9K - $1.8M.

Asia Argento Net Worth 2018

Asia Argento 's revenue is $1.4M in 2018. It is an approximate forecast of how rich is Asia Argento and could vary in the range between $834.4K - $1.5M.

Asia Argento Net Worth 2017

Asia Argento 's revenue is $1.3M in 2017. It is an approximate forecast of how rich is Asia Argento and could vary in the range between $896.1K - $1.4M.

Asia Argento Net Worth 2016

Asia Argento 's revenue is $1.1M in 2016. It is an approximate forecast of how rich is Asia Argento and could vary in the range between $754.4K - $1.2M.

Asia Argento Net Worth 2015

Asia Argento 's revenue is $1.6M in 2015. It is an approximate forecast of how rich is Asia Argento and could vary in the range between $697.5K - $1.3M.

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