milestones
Year
Milestone
1985 
Feature acting debut in "Sogni e Bisogni"
1986 
Had early film role in "Demoni 2 - L'Incubo Ritorna/Demons 2 - The Nightmare Is Back", scripted by Dario Argento
1993 
First directed by her father in "Trauma"
1994 
Directorial debut making two short films: "Prosepettive" and "A ritroso"
1994 
Co-starred as Charlotte of Sauve in "Queen Margot"
1996 
Appeared in the experimental "Bits and Pieces"
1996 
Starred in "Stendhal Syndrome", directed by her father
 
Played title role in Michael Radford's "B. Monkey" (filmed in 1996; released theatrically in the USA in 1999)
1998 
Directed documentary on Abel Ferrara, "Abel/Asia which won an award at the Rome Film Festival
1999 
Starred opposite Julian Sands in remake of "The Phantom of the Opera", directed by her father
1999 
Directed a four-minute short "Your Tongue on My Heart"; premiered at the Locarno International Film Festival
2000 
Feature directorial debut with the English-language film "Scarlet Diva"; also starred; screened at Cannes
2001 
Co-starred in "Love Bites"
2002 
Co-starred in the summer's action blockbuster "XXX"
2005 
Cast in George A. Romero's "Land of the Dead," a thriller where the living dead have taken over the world
2005 
Starred opposite Michael Pitt in Gus Van Sant's "Last Days" loosely based on the life and career of musican Kurt Cobain
2006 
Wrote, directed and starred in "The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things," based on JT Leroy's critically acclaimed novel of the same name
2006 
Cast as Madame du Barry in Sofia Coppola's "Marie-Antoinette"
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