Asia Aria Maria Vittoria Rossa Argento (born 20 September 1975) is an Italian television and film actress and director. Asia Argento started acting at the age of nine playing a small part in a film by Sergio Citti. She was directed by her father Dario Argento in one of her first works, The Church (1989), when she was 14, and Trauma (1993), when she was 18.