Asia Argento

Asia Argento is an Italian actor and filmmaker whose early work included films by Nanni Moretti, Michele Placido and her father, Dario Argento. Her international acting credits include La Reine Margot, New Rose Hotel, Last Days, Marie Antoinette and Boarding Gate.

She wrote and directed Scarlet Diva in 2000 and The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things in 2004. Her later film Incompresa screened in Un Certain Regard at Cannes in 2014. She served on the festival’s feature-film jury in 2009.