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Dario Argento is an Italian filmmaker born in Rome on September 7th, 1940. Since a young age, Dario has always been attracted to film and has worked in nearly all elements of the industry including directing, producing, screenwriting and editing. He is considered a staple of the giallo sub-genre and is best known for directing films such as Deep Red, Suspiria, Trauma]', and the 1998 remake of Phantom of the Opera''. His daughter Asia Argento, born in 1975, is an actress and director as well and has appeared in such films as Demons 2, Trauma, The Stendhal Syndrome and Land of the Dead.

Dario's father, Salvatore Argento, was a movie production executive and his mother, Elda Luxardo, was a photographer from Brazil. Dario had no formal education as it relates to film and found work as a journalist, first as a movie critic and later as a columnist for the Paese Sera.

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