Asia Aria Anna Maria Vittoria Rossa Argento (born 20 September, 1975, Rome) is an Italian television and film actress and director. In Rome, the city's register office refused to acknowledge "Asia" as an appropriate name, and instead officially inscribed her as Aria Argento. Despite this, she uses the name Asia Argento professionally. Asia is pronounced ['a:sia] in Italian.

Profiled in the September/October 2005 issue of North American Film Review

An up and coming model, whose first gig was for Troma Films, an Indy film studio in New York City. She was a volunteer Tromette, working horror conventions for recognition and networking. Started out her career as a Special FX makeup Artist and worked her way up to acting. She also is an accomplished stunt woman and fight coordinator. Started The Roanoke Renegades, a traveling theatre group in Roanoke, VA because of her great love for the theatre and the inability for fellow actors to...

Trained at the Armstrong Acting Studio. Currently working toward a double major in history and art history at the University of Toronto. [2004]

Joanne begin acting at the age of 18, she attended York University and after went to musical theater school to pursue her love of music and theatre. Her first role on film was in "The Mitchell Brothers" directed by Emilio Esteves, from there she went on to various film and television projects including a 2 1/2 year stint on "Train 48", an improvised daily drama. She currently lives in Toronto with her husband Dylan and son Kaden. She also plays with the funk band "The Elastocitizens".