Asia Argento

• Birthplace: Rome, Italy
• Birthday: September 20, 1975

An Italian actress whose career has invoked comparisons with the American Winona Ryder, Asia Argento has been acting in features since she was nine years old. The waif-like brunette has since played a variety of troubled youths and disturbed young women. While she was not considered attractive as a young girl when she began acting, Argento has matured into a beauty and was voted the most desirable actress in Italy in 1996. Though practically unknown in the USA despite nearly 20 films, she cracked the English-language market playing the street u…more