As one of the most talked-about figures, Asia Argento has built a significant fortune. In this article, we dive deep into the assets and career highlights.
What Is Asia Argento's Net Worth?
Asia was dating chef Anthony Bourdain at the time of his death in 2018.
Asia Argento was born Aria Maria Vittoria Rossa Argento on September 20, 1975, in Rome, Italy. She is the daughter of actress Daria Nicolodi and film directorDario Argento, renowned for his influential work in the Italian giallo genre of horror films. As a child, she would be read her father's horror screenplays as bedtime stories. Feeling lonely, depressed, and unloved by her father, Argento ran away from home at the age of 14.
Asia Argento is an Italian actress, singer, model, and director who has a net worth of $500 thousand. Asia Argento's notable acting credits include the films "Queen Margot," "Traveling Companion," "xXx," and "Marie Antoinette," while her directorial credits include "Scarlet Diva," "The Heart is Deceitful Above All Things," and "Misunderstood."
After starring in the Italian comedy "Viola Kisses Everybody," Argento made her transition to English-language cinema with a starring role inAbel Ferrara's1998 erotic cyberpunk film "New Rose Hotel." Also that year, she starred in the British-American crime drama "B. Monkey" and her father's "The Phantom of the Opera." To start the new millennium, Asia made her feature film directorial debut with "Scarlet Diva," in which she also starred. In 2002, she had her international breakthrough as an actress playing an undercover spy oppositeVin Dieselin the Hollywood action film "xXx." Argento subsequently directed her second feature film, "The Heart is Deceitful Above All Things," in which she also starred.
Argento made her major feature film debut in 1986 in Lamberto Bava's Italian horror film "Demons 2." Three years later, she was in another Italian horror film, "The Church." Asia subsequently appeared in the comedy "Red Wood Pigeon" and the teen drama "Close Friends." In 1993, she starred in her father's giallo horror film "Trauma" and also appeared in the comedy "Diary of a Man Condemned to Marriage." Argento had one of her most notable years on the big screen in 1994, when she was in the historical drama "Queen Margot" and the comedy "Let's Not Keep in Touch." For her performance in the latter film, she won the David di Donatello Award for Best Actress. Asia won a second David di Donatello Award for Best Actress for her work in the 1996 drama "Traveling Companion." That same year, she starred in her father's film "The Stendhal Syndrome."
After becoming a leader of the #MeToo movement in 2017, Argento was herself accused of sexually abusing a young actor.
In 2005, Argento appeared in notable films from two major auteurs:Gus Van Sant's"Last Days" and George A. Romero's "Land of the Dead." The following year, she was inSofia Coppola's"Marie Antoinette" and Tony Gatlif's "TranSylvania." Asia's subsequent credits included Olivier Assayas's "Boarding Gate," Abel Ferrara's "Go Go Tales," Catherine Breillat's "The Last Mistress," and her father's "Mother of Tears." She closed out the 2000s with roles in "On War" and "Diamond 13."
Asia appeared in four films in 2011, all Italian: "Horses," "Islands," "Baciato Dalla Fortuna," and "Drifters." The next year, she appeared in the French comedy "Do Not Disturb" and her father's "Dracula 3D." Argento was subsequently in the romantic dramas "Obsessive Rhythms" and "Shongram." In 2014, she directed her third feature film, "Misunderstood." Argento's later film credits include the American thriller "Agony" and her father's 2022 film "Dark Glasses."
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Disclaimer: All net worth figures are estimates based on public data.