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 urchin Jared Harris hopes to reform in Michael Radford’s “B. Monkey” (1997).
