Asia Argento

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Asia Argento at the 2012 Cannes International Film Festival

Asia Aria Maria Vittoria Rossa Argento (born September 20, 1975 in Rome ) is an Italian actress , film director , screenwriter , writer , singer and model .

life and career

Asia Argento and her father Dario at the 1993 Cannes International Film Festival

Asia Argento is the daughter of the director Dario Argento and the actress Daria Nicolodi, granddaughter of the Italian film producer Salvatore Argento and great-granddaughter of the composer and music critic Alfredo Casella .

In 1984, at the age of nine, Argento made his debut with a supporting role in the television movie The Return of Guerriero . Until 1989 she worked as a child actress . In 1988 she got her first leading role : in the film Zoo she played the daughter of a zoo keeper who befriends a Roma boy and flees with him on an elephant when the police are looking for the boy. She received the Italian David di Donatello film award twice in the Best Actress category : 1994 for her performance in Perdiamoci di vista! , 1997 for Compagna di viaggio .

Argento has also been making documentaries and short films as a director since 1994, and feature films since 1999 ( Scarlet Diva ; also screenwriter and leading actress). At that time she was the youngest female film director in Italy. Her third feature film was made in 2014 with Misunderstood .

Argento published several short stories and in 1999 her first novel ( I love you Kirk ), which was translated into several languages. In 2009 she was appointed to the competition jury at the 62nd Cannes International Film Festival .

In 2015, she announced that she was giving up her acting career and wanted to work primarily as a director.
Argento also appeared as a musician, often in collaboration with avant-garde electronic dance music projects. She became known as a singer in 2008, after a duet with the placebo singer Brian Molko , with whom she sang the classic Je t'aime… moi non plus . With the Portuguese musician The Legendary Tigerman she recorded two pieces for his Femina album in 2009 and played at his side in the video for the piece My Stomach Is the Most Violent of All Italy , which she wrote with Tigerman.

In January 2019 she made her debut as a model and performed in Paris for the Italian designer Antonio Grimaldi.

In addition to her mother tongue, Argento also speaks French and English . From 2000 to 2006 she was in a relationship with the Italian singer colleague Marco Castoldi . A daughter comes from this partnership. From 2008 to 2013 she was married to filmmaker Michele Civetta, with whom she has a son. From 2017 she was in a relationship with the TV chef Anthony Bourdain , who committed suicide in June 2018.

#Me too

The actress has been one of the main players in the #MeToo movement since 2017 . She claimed to have been sexually assaulted by Harvey Weinstein and was one of the first to make it public. In 2018, she herself came under fire when she was accused of sexually assaulting the then underage Jimmy Bennett in 2013 .

Sexual assault allegations against Harvey Weinstein

In 2017, Argento was one of the first actresses to raise allegations against film producer Harvey Weinstein as part of #MeToo . Argento alleged that Weinstein sexually assaulted her in his hotel room during the 1997 Cannes International Film Festival when she was 21 years old.

Sexual abuse allegation against Jimmy Bennett

In August 2018, the New York Times reported that Argento allegedly assaulted the then 17-year-old actor Jimmy Bennett in a hotel room in the US state of California in 2013 . The age of consent for sexual contact in California is 18 years. Bennett played her son in Argento's 2004 film The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things .

In April 2018, Argento reportedly paid Bennett $ 380,000 to avoid a lawsuit, according to the New York Times . The reporters' allegations are based on incriminating documents sent anonymously and in an encrypted email. The documents show the comparison between the lawyers for the sum mentioned. In turn, that should copyright on a dated on May 9, 2013 Selfie -Photo showing Argento and Bennett together in bed, have gone to Argento. Three people familiar with the case rated the documents as authentic.

A public discussion of the allegations and of Argento as a key player in the #MeToo movement began. The focus is on her person, but also on the movement itself. Argento denied the allegations and instead indicated an attempt at blackmail on the part of Bennett. The Italian talent show X Factor split after the scandal from Asia Argento, who was on the jury there at the time. Likewise, CNN withdrew two episodes of the travel and food show Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown , which also featured her. At the end of August 2018, the actress Rose McGowan asked her fellow campaigner in the Weinstein scandal in an open letter to deal honestly with the allegations (" Be honest. Be fair. Let justice stay its course. "), Which Argento again prompted a few weeks later To prosecute McGowan for defamation, among other things. At the end of September, Argento admitted in a TV interview, contrary to her previous descriptions, that she had actually had sex with Bennett. According to Argento, the initiative came from him. Bennett stuck to his statement that Argento coerced him into sex.

Filmography (selection)

Argento at the 2009 Cannes International Film Festival

Prizes and awards

Web links

Commons : Asia Argento  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ imdb.com
  2. ↑ "Ho smesso di fare l'attrice perché non ero felice"
  3. ^ Entry on Asia Argento on Discogs , accessed on June 9, 2015
  4. ↑ Information on the CD / DVD Femina by The Legendary Tigerman , Metropolitana / EMI Portugal 2009
  5. ↑ Asia Argento debutta come model
  6. ^ Asia Argento. Retrieved August 21, 2018 .
  7. ↑ Touching words about Anthony Bourdain . In: stern.de . June 8, 2018 ( stern.de [accessed on August 21, 2018]).
  8. ↑ a b Kim Severson: Asia Argento, a #MeToo Leader, Made a Deal With Her Own Accuser. In: New York Times. August 20, 2018, accessed August 20, 2018 .
  9. ↑ Kim Severson: Asia Argento, a #MeToo Leader, Made a Deal With Her Own Accuser. August 19, 2018. Retrieved August 22, 2018 .
  10. ↑ Valeriya Safronova: "Hypocritical and Unacceptable" . In: sueddeutsche.de . August 20, 2018, ISSN  0174-4917 ( sueddeutsche.de [accessed August 20, 2018]).
  11. ↑ MeToo pioneer Argento rejects allegations of abuse. In: dieStandard.at . August 21, 2018. Retrieved August 21, 2018 .
  12. ^ After allegations of abuse: Asia Argento apparently fired from "X Factor Italy" . In: Spiegel Online . August 27, 2018 ( spiegel.de [accessed August 27, 2018]).
  13. ↑ Asia Argento banned from CNN show. Spiegel Online on September 3, 2018, accessed on September 4, 2018.
  14. ↑ Rose McGowan Says Asia Argento Should Be Person “Harvey Could Have Been”. Open letter to Asia Argento dated August 27, 2018, accessed September 4, 2018.
  15. ↑ Asia Argento sued Rose McGowan , n-tv.de, accessed on September 21, 2018
  16. ↑ Asia Argento admits sex with Jimmy Bennett , spiegel.de, accessed October 1, 2018
personal data
SURNAME Argento, Asia
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Argento, Asia Aria Maria Vittoria Rossa (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian actress, film director, screenwriter, writer, singer and model
DATE OF BIRTH 20th September 1975
PLACE OF BIRTH Rome