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Biographical
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Full
Name: |
Silver
Gems |
Height: |
5'
5" |
Birthplace: |
Rome,
Italy |
Date
of Birth: |
September
20, 1975 |
Husband/Partner: |
Marco
"Morgan" Castoldi (current) |
Contact
Info: |
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Personal
Quote: |
"Sometimes
I think my father gave me life because he needed
a lead actress for his films." |
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Asia
Argento is a beautiful, talented, award-winning Italian
actress. Asia was born on 20th
September 1975 at 8:07am-CEDT in Rome, Italy. She is officially
named "Aria" since the
registration office would not accept "Asia".
She's the daughter of the famous Italian horror
director Dario Argento and her mother is Daria Nicolodi,
the famous stage and film actress
and former-model. Daria Nicolodi co-wrote Dario's gothic
masterpiece "Suspiria".
Dario two
daughters, Fiore (Asia's half sister, now a successful
shoe designer) and Asia
have starred in a half-dozen or so of his movies. Asia
had another half sister, Anna
(Dario's other daughter from his first marriage) who
sadly died in a scooter accident several
years ago. Asia has a tattoo on her ribs in memory of
Anna, she is said to miss her deeply.
Asia wrote and published three books between the ages
of five and nine, it was at this tender
age she started her acting career. Appearing on television
with the feature called "Sogni e
Bisogni" directed by Sergio Citti on the Italian
RAI1 channel in 1984. She also starred in
Buon Natale" directed by Lugi Cozzi for RAI3. Since
then she's been in over fifteen movies.
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Her
debut as a first assistant director came in 1994, she
turned her hand to directing two
short films. She also won the Rome Film Festival award
in 1988 for the documentary on Abel
Ferrara Abel/Asia. In 1999 Asia made her directorial debut
feature film entitled "Scarlet
Diva". Asia played the lead actress and also wrote
the screenplay, it was released in May
2000. "Scarlet Diva" won an award at the Williamsburg
Brooklyn Film Festival.
After directing
a number of music videos, Asia gave birth to a baby
girl named Anna Lou on
June 20th 2001 in Lugano. Asia named her daughter after
her late sister Anna. It has been
said Anna Lou has her mothers looks. The father is Asia's
partner Morgan (Marco Castoldi),
a musician from the Italian rock group Bluvertigo.In
2002 she stars in the action thriller
XXX directed by Rob Cohen, with Vin Diesel and Samuel
L. Jackson. Asia is also the author of
a number of short stories published in many prestigious
magazines such as "Dynamo", "L'Espresso",
"Sette" and "Village". Her first
novel "I Love You Kirk" was published in Italy
October 1999
by Frassinelli Editrice and in France 2001 by Florent
Massot.
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Films:
Ginostra (2002)
XXX (2002)
Le Sirène rouge (2002)
Le Assenzio (2001)
Les Morsures de l'aube (2001)
Loredasia (2000)
Scarlet Diva (2000)
La Tua lingua sul mio cuore (1999)
Viola bacia tutti (1998)
Il Fantasma dell'opera (1998)
B. Monkey (1998)
New Rose Hotel (1998)
Compagna di viaggio (1996)
La Sindrome di Stendhal (1996)
Il Cielo è sempre più blu (1995)
DeGenerazione (1994)
La Reine Margot (1994)
Perdiamoci di vista (1994)
Condannato a nozze (1993)
Trauma (1993)
Le Amiche del cuore (1992)
Palombella rossa (1989)
Zoo (1989)
La Chiesa (1989)
Demoni 2 (1986)
Made for
TV:
None
Direct to
Video:
None
TV Shows:
125 milioni di caz..te (2001)
Les Misérables (2000)
Sogni e bisogni (1984)
Cartoon Voices:
None
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