Asia Argento

Her first name is pronounced as ä-SEE-uh. She is the highest paid film actress in the history of France. She gave birth to her first child, a girl named Anna Lou, on June 20, 2001, with Italian rock and roll musician Morgan as the father. In addition to her numerous motion picture roles, Binoche has starred on Broadway. She also directed and wrote her first movie called Scarlet Diva (2000). In 2000 she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress for her starring role in the film Chocolat, based on the novel by Joanne Harris. She was directed in one of her first works Trauma (1993) by her father, Dario Argento, and also had her first nude scene in the film, when she was 16. In 1996 her role as Hana, a Canadian nurse tending to a wounded stranger during WWII, in the blockbuster film The English Patient, brought her the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress.

Asia Aria Anna Maria Vittoria Rossa Argento is an Italian television and film actress, born September 20, 1975, in Rome, Italy. Her performance brought much praise and the offer of leading roles including in Three Colors: Blue, part 1 of Krzysztof Kieslowski's highly acclaimed Three Colors trilogy, for which she won the 1993 Cesar Award for best actress. During her career, in addition to winning, she has been nominated five times for the Cesar Award for Best Actress. She was 24 when she received her first big break with a role in Philip Kaufman's film The Unbearable Lightness of Being. While trying to build her career over the next five years, she worked as a clerk at a Paris department store and earned extra cash as a painter's model. At age 18 she was given a bit part in the small independent film Liberty Belle.

Born to a movie-director father and an actress mother, at age 15 she was sent to Paris to study at a specialized arts high school, after which she attended the National Conservatory of Dramatic Arts. Juliette Binoche (born March 9, 1964) is a French actress, born in Paris, France. 1993 - Cesar Award - Best Actress - Damage. 1994 - Golden Globe Award - Best Actress - Three Colors: Blue.

1996 - Cesar Award - Best Actress - Le Hussard sur le toit - (The Horseman on the Roof). 1997 - Golden Globe Award - Best Supporting Actress - The English Patient. 1997 - Screen Actors Guild Award - Best Supporting Actress - The English Patient. 2001 - Screen Actors Guild Award - Outstanding Cast - Chocolat.

2001 - Screen Actors Guild Award - Best Actress - Chocolat. 2001 - Golden Globe Award - Best Actress - Chocolat. 2001 - Cesar Award - Best Actress - Widow Of Saint-Pierre. 2001 - British Academy Award - Best Actress - Chocolat.

2001 - Academy Award for Best Actress - Chocolat. 1992 - European Film Award - Best Actress - Les Amants du Pont-Neuf. 1993 - Berlin International Film Festival - Berlinale Camera. 1993 - Venice Film Festival - Best Actress - Three Colors: Blue.

1994 - Cesar Award - Best Actress - Three Colors: Blue. 1996 - National Board of Review - Best Supporting Actress - The English Patient. 1997 - European Film Award - Best Actress - The English Patient. 1997 - British Academy Award - Best Supporting Actress - The English Patient.

1997 - Berlin International Film Festival - Best Actress - The English Patient. 1997 - Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress - The English Patient.