Full name: Aria Asia Maria Vittoria Rossa Argento.
Asia was legally named Aria because the registration office didn't accept Asia. Geographical names weren't allowed in Italy at the time. However, Az kept the name her parents had chosen for her. They wanted to name her Asia because she was conceived there. Vittoria Rossa (Red Victory) was a tribute to 1968, a significant period in her parents's lives.
"My family always called me Asia but, when I was born, they couldn't... there is still the same law... apparently you can't name a child after a foreign continent or country in Italy for a law that Mussolini made in '34. So my parents went to the office to put my name down and they were like, 'sorry but you can't do that.' So they thought up the name Aria, which is really good. In a way I was born to be Earth but life made me Air, as Aria means air. So I have both in me... only that 'air' is like secret..."
Date Of Birth: September 20th 1975.
Place Of Birth: Rome, Italy.
Nationality: Italian.
Height: 1 meter 70 cm or 5' 7".
Hair Color: Brown.
Eye Color: Brown.
Nicknames: Az, Silver Gems, Azia.
Star Sign: Virgo.
Father: Dario Argento, movie director.
Mother: Daria Nicolodi, actress.
Her parents split up in 1986.
Siblings: Two older half-sisters: Fiore, a costume designer, born in 1970, the daughter of Dario and his first wife, Marisa Casale; and Anna, born in 1973, deceased in a scooter accident in Rome in 1994, the daughter of Daria and sculptor Mario Ceroli. Fiore Argento also acted as a child. Take a look at her filmography.
Children: A daughter called Anna Lou, born on June 20th 2001, in Lugano.
Anna Lou's father is Marco Castoldi, aka Morgan, lead singer of the Italian band Bluvertigo.
Tattoos: Asia has eight tattoos.
She started getting her tattoos when she was 14. According to her, they're almost like a reminder.
"Every few years I feel the urge to mark myself and mark the passages, as if my body was a map and every scar will always be with me, and every scar tells you where I've been, like an animal."
AN EYE
“It’s on my shoulder, I got it on my first trip to Amsterdam when I was 14. I was so high on hash, and while I knew that I wanted an eye, I really didn’t know how I wanted it. The guy at the tattoo place felt sorry for me, and anyway he did it.”
TWO SNAKES AND A SUN
“It’s over my ass. I did the two snakes in Minneapolis when I was shooting 'Trauma'. I was 16. The sun that’s in between, I did that in Amsterdam (again) when I was 17. The snakes were taken from a Medusa statue that I saw in Rome, and they were intertwined around her waist. And the sun… I dunno, I drew it… but all these tattoos, I have to say, I would have a million symbolic reasons that were very true at the time I was having the tattoo, very romantic in a way... You could say: “I got this tattoo for a reason’” – but not really, I really liked those drawings, and this is the bottom line.”
AN ANGEL
“It’s taken from a painting by the Belgian painter Delvaux... But she’s not an angel, I added the wings. And I did it there (rising from her pubis mound) not for some sexual iconography of a flying pussy, but more to hide it from my father, who was not so happy about me having all these tattoos. I remember when I finally showed it to him, like three years after, ‘cos I managed to hide it for a couple of years, he said that now I could fulfil my dream and work in the circus as the tattooed wonder.”
ANNA
“It’s my sister’s name (the deceased Anna – who 'Scarlet Diva' is dedicated to) on my ribs. Because I remembered this line by Blixa Bargeld: “I don’t know who has cut you off my ribs” – as of Eve for Adam. It looks like a jail tattoo, something very dirty.”
23
Although some people thought it was the "Devil's number", 23 is in fact Asia's lucky number. No big deal. Tattoed on the back of her neck. She later found out about the whole theory of the Illuminati. Many believe 23 has mystical properties and it's a number that appears a lot in the history of mankind.
PANOS
It's the name of a Greek boy, who was born only a few days after Asia and who has a lot in common with her. According to Asia, he's the twin brother she's never had. Tattoed on her left pulse.
"It's this person that I met briefly that had a very strong impact on my life. I met him, like, for a day, and I had this name tattooed. It's really crazy, this tattoo, I think it's the craziest one I've ever made."
The double Anarchy = M
"The double Anarchy = M, is the Ministry logo. As much as I love the band... To me it stands for Asia, Anna and Morgan. He has the same tattoo on his arm."
CROSS
On her left wrist.
Pets: A dog, Dziga, named after director Dziga Vertov.
What else? She smokes Camel light.
