Trauma

An anorexic young woman escapes from a psychiatric clinic and meets a young man who wants to help. She is caught and returned to her parents, who are soon beheaded by a garrotting stranger making the rounds about town, apparently striking only when it rains. The orphaned young woman and her new lover launch their own investigation and are endangered when a link is discovered with the victims and a particular operation performed years before.

Biography for Asia Argento

Date of birth
20 September 1975
Rome, Italy

Birth name
Aria Argento
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Asia Argento was born in Rome, Italy. Daughter of a famous horror director, Dario Argento, and stage actress, Daria Nicolodi, she started her acting career when she was only nine yers old. Since then she's been in over fifteen movies, she has won two 'DAVID DI DONATELLO' (the italian oscar), two 'CIACK', an italian 'GOLDEN GLOBE' when she was only twelve, and a 'GROLLA D'ORO'. She acted in French ( Reine Margot, La (1994) ) and in English, in the upcoming B. Monkey (1998), by 0110877 director Michael Radford, where she played Beatrice, the lead role.
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Trivia

Has a daughter named Anna Lou born in Lugano on June the 20th 2001 with rock and roll musician Morgan from the italian band Bluvertigo

Officially named Aria since the registration office did not accept Asia.

Daughter of Dario Argento and Daria Nicolodi

Granddaughter of 'Salvatore Argento'

As of July 2001, has four tattoos: A eye on her left shoulder (acquired at age 14), two snakes entwined around a sun on her lower back, a winged angel on her lower abdomen, and the name "Anna" (after her deceased sister) over one of her ribs.
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Personal quotes

During the shooting of my directorial debut, I must never let myself go to any goliardery, even if I might think I am missing some fun, never mingle with the rest of the crew, because they are actors while I am the mirth of a rickety poem. They are solo artists, virtuosos - but I am the orchestra, the strings carpet where everybody has to lay. They are the public, while I am tonight's special event. I allow them to be instantly well-liked, but I must remain rigorous to reveal my eyes, I have to act out the things that never happen. When I think of my film, I don't take anything from the reality that I know, I suck only from the utopia/reality I would want to live. When I say my lines, the I have written for myself, I think about this, of a womb-like world where amniotic liquids protect me from injustices and the boogey man.

[In answer to the question "How do you want to be remembered?"] "As somebody who has done everything, but didn't know how to do anything."
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Sir�ne rouge, La (2002)
XXX (2002) .... Yelena
Assenzio, L' (2001)
"125 milioni di caz..te" (2001) (mini) TV Series .... Host
Dario Argento: An Eye for Horror (2000) (TV) (interviewee) .... Herself
Ginostra (2000)
Morsures de l'aube, Les (2000) .... Violaine
... aka Love Bites (2000) (International: English title)
"Mis�rables, Les" (2000) (mini) TV Series .... �ponine Th�nardier
... aka "Mis�rables - Gefangene des Schicksals, Les" (2001) (mini) (Germany)
Scarlet Diva (2000) .... Anna Battista
Tua lingua sul mio cuore, La (1999)
Fantasma dell'opera, Il (1998) .... Christine Daae
... aka Phantom of the Opera (1999) (USA: video box title)
... aka Phantom of the Opera, The (1999) (USA)
B. Monkey (1998) .... Beatrice (B. Monkey)
... aka B. Monkey - una donna da salvare (2000) (Italy)
New Rose Hotel (1998) .... Sandii
Viola bacia tutti (1997) .... Viola
... aka Viola Kisses Everybody (1997) (USA)
Compagna di viaggio (1996) .... Cora
... aka Travelling Companion (1996) (USA)
Sindrome di Stendhal, La (1996) .... Detective Anna Manni
... aka Stendhal Syndrome, The (1996)
... aka Stendhal's Syndrome (1996)
Cielo � sempre pi� blu, Il (1995) .... Cousin
... aka Bits and Pieces (1995)
DeGenerazione (1994)
Perdiamoci di vista! (1994) .... Arianna
... aka Let's Not Keep in Touch (1994)
Reine Margot, La (1994) .... Charlotte of Sauve
... aka Bartholom�usnacht, Die (1994) (Germany)
... aka Queen Margot (1994) (USA)
... aka Regina Margot, La (1994) (Italy)
Condannato a nozze (1993) .... Olivia
... aka Condemned to Wed (1993)
Trauma (1993) .... Aura Petrescu
... aka Dario Argento's Trauma (1994) (USA)
Amiche del cuore, Le (1992) .... Simona
... aka Close Friends (1992)
Palombella rossa (1989) .... Valentina
... aka Palombella rossa (1989) (France)
... aka Red Wood Pigeon (1990) (USA)
Zoo (1989) .... Martina
Chiesa, La (1988) .... Lotte
... aka Cathedral of Demons (1988)
... aka Church, The (1988)
... aka Demon Cathedral (1988)
... aka Demons 3 (1988)
... aka In the Land of the Demons (1988)
Demoni 2 (1986) .... Ingrid
... aka Demoni 2: L'incubo ritorna (1986)
... aka Demons 2 (1987) (USA)
... aka Demons 2: The Nightmare Is Back (1987) (USA)
... aka Demons 2: The Nightmare Returns (1987) (USA: video title)
"Sogni e bisogni" (1984) (mini) TV Series .... Asia Argento