Asia Argento
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| Name: | Asia Argento | |
| Status | Alive | |
| Age: | 49 (September 20, 1975) | |
| IMDB: | IMDb | |
| TMDB: | TMDB | |
| Smoking Status: | Unknown | |
| Type of Celebrity: | Actor | |
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| TMDB Popularity | 39.246 | |
| Biography (TMDB): | Asia Argento (born Aria Maria Vittoria Rossa Argento; 20 September 1975) is an Italian actress, singer, model, and director. Her mother is actress Daria di Nicolodi and her father is Dario de Argento, an Italian film director, producer and screenwriter, well known for his work in the Italian giallo genre and for his influence on modern horror and slasher movies. Her maternal great-grandfather was composer Alfredo Casella. Asia Argento started acting at the age of nine, playing a small role in a film by Sergio Citti. She also had a small part in Demons 2, a 1986 film written and produced by her father, at the age of 10, as well as its unofficial sequel, La Chiesa (The Church), when she was 14, and Trauma (1993), when she was 18. She received the David di Donatello (Italy's version of the Academy Award) for Best Actress in 1994 for her performance in Perdiamoci di vista, and again in 1996 for Compagna di viaggio, which also earned her a Grolla d'oro award. In 1998, Argento began appearing in English-language movies, such as B. Monkey and New Rose Hotel. Argento has proven her ability to work in multiple languages, adding French, with a role as Charlotte de Sauve in 1994's La Reine Margot. That same year, she made her first foray into directing, calling the shots behind the short films Prospettive and A ritroso. In 1996, she directed a documentary on her father, and in 1998 a second one on Abel Ferrara, which won her the Rome Film Festival Award. Argento directed and wrote her first movie, Scarlet Diva (2000), which her father co-produced. In 2002, she portrayed Russian undercover spy Yelena in the action film XXX alongside Vin Diesel. In 2004 she directed her second film The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things, based on a book by JT LeRoy, the pen name of Laura Albert, this time in the United States. Description above from the Wikipedia article Asia Argento, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia. |
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Movies
B. Monkey
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smokingsides
Wow...wow. Argento smokes virtually nonstop and as if she was born to it, in that assured, natural way that only European women seem to have these days. This one has it all: dangling exhales, some from mouth, some from nostrils; a closeup where she exhales through her nose even while she's taking her next drag; wonderful lightups; a scene in which she's dancing in a brightly sunlit room while smoke from her exhale billows and swirls around her body; and a terrific scene in a bar where she French-inhales, then slowly exhales an extra-thick cloud right into a friend's face. Do NOT miss this one (as if you would after this review). |
Boarding Gate
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smokingsides
Couldn't wait to see this one, since it pairs hall-of-famers Asia Argento and Olivier Assayas, the director who gave us Irma Vep, Demonlover, Clean, and Late August, Early September. Alas, while it's worth a rent, it doesn't quite live up to expectations. Argento does have a couple of very good scenes, with multiple drags and exhales, including one into a guy's face, but it's nowhere near the standard set by either her or Assayas's earlier films. Lin and Preiss each have a brief scene, but neither look IRL and I don't think either inhales. |
Cindy: The Doll is Mine
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Argento has two drags, two snap inhales, 1 nose/mouth exhale combo, and another nose exhale. The first drag is with a cigarette with a very long ash and shot close up |
Compagna di viaggio
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smokingsides
Argento smokes in 8 scenes, the highlights being 2 excellent nose exhales after she's taken a shower, several light-ups and other visible exhales. Cohen lights up and exhales in one scene. |
Land of the Dead
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smokingsides
rolls a cigarette and smokes in one scene while in jail about 20 to 25 minutes into the film. I believe I saw one inhale but sadly no exhale. She still looked great though! |
Last Days
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smokingsides
Argento and Vicius smoke in the 'behind the scenes' section of the DVD release of Last Days |
New Rose Hotel
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smokingsides
This is one of those movies that drive you crazy for what could have been. Just a little more care in the editing, lighting, and camera angles, and we'd be talking about one of the all-time greats. Don't get me wrong, though, it's still pretty wonderful, with Asia and Annabella each featured doing some very sexy smoking in multiple scenes. And Argento smokes the same style of long, black cigarettes with gold tips that Michelle Pfeiffer smoked in Fabulous Baker Boys. |
Scarlet Diva
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smokingsides
Wall-to-wall sex, drugs, rock & roll, Euro-trash style. Argento is in every scene and always seems to be smoking something or other, mostly cigarettes but lots of drugs as well. Countless dangles, dangling exhales, nostril exhales, talking exhales, all combinations of the above... she does it all and with style to burn. This one and B. Monkey alone put her in the hall of fame. |
Sindrome di Stendhal, La
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smokingsides
Smokes in about two scenes both set in a therapist's office where she takes some fine looking drags and a few double nose/mouth exhales which stay in the air around her. |
The Heart is Deceitful Above All Things
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smokingsides
Lights up several times with several inhale/exhale sequences |
Transylvania
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smokingsides
Argento has two or three scenes, all outdoors in winter, and she's wrapped up in gypsy costume. She dangles for minutes on end, sometimes dragging and exhaling, but it's almost all shot from a rather large distance. There is one reasonably close-up shot of an exhale. Oh, and her character's pregnant. Casar has one drag/exhale in a club, not very well lit so the smoke is not too visible. |
Trauma
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smokingsides
smokes in an interview included in the special features area of the French release of the DVD. |
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smokingsides
Just one scene, from a distance, as she paces back and forth outdoors at night. She finishes a hard drag and exhales, then another long, intent (slo-mo?) drag, then the director cuts away before the exhale. |
Une vieille ma%tresse
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smokingsides
I have not yet seen this movie, but most reviews call Argento's character 'cigar-smoking', and some tell of blowing smoke rings. |
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