Asia Argento and Ashton Whitty

Ashton Blaise Whitty was born on the 1st of October, 1995, at Berkeley, California, USA. She is an actress known by her roles in Choices (2010), The Heart and Other Small Shapes (2006) and Chrissie Mayr's Content House

Asia Argento, born in Rome to a household that includes directors and actors, worked in both areas. In 1985 she debuted in Sergio Citti's Sogni e bisogni. In 1988 she had her role as the main character in Cristina Comencini's first film, Zoo (1988), and was part of the cast of The Church (1989), directed by Michele Soavi. Next, in 1989 she played Nanni Moretti's (also directed by Michele Soavi) child in Red Wood Pigeon. Close Friends (1992) by Michele Placido (both writer and director) is the year that Asia started to really begin to take off. The film allowed her to progress from the roles of young females to more sophisticated adult characters. Cannes International Film Festival received the film well. For Trauma (1993), she was the first to work with her father, famed Italian film director Dario Argento (her mother is one of the most beloved actors of Argento, Daria Nicolodi, playing an obese girl on the lookout for her parents' killer. The Phantom of the Opera marks her third collaboration with her father. The others are Trauma and The Stendhal Syndrome. Giuseppe Piccioni's Condannato A Nozze demonstrated Asia's intense way that she exhibited in her playing. In 1993, she appeared as Arianna in Carlo Verdone's Perdiamoci di vista. The role was in which she was so intricate that she earned the David di Donatello Award as the most outstanding actress. Patrice Chereau was the director. Queen Margot in which she was also in a key role. The collaboration she had together with Michel Piccoli, in Peter Del Monte's Traveling Companion won her yet another David di Donatello award as well as Grolla di Oro. Asia began directing in 1994, and produced two shorts: Prospettive (1996), documentary about her father and her mother, as well as Abel/Asia (1998) which was a documentary about cult filmmaker Abel Ferrara. The latter won an award from the Rome Film Festival. Asia debuted as a director of feature in Scarlet Diva (2000). In this film, she also starred and authored the screenplay. In May 2000, the movie premiered in Italy and around the globe. The film won an prize during the Williamsburg Film Festival in Brooklyn, New York. Anna Lou, the first of her two daughters was born in the month of January in 2001. In 2002 Asia appeared in The Red Siren with Jean Marc Barr, and Rob Cohen's Action-Thrille, directed by Vin Diesel. Asian's short stories have been published in some of the most prestigious magazines.