Asia Argento and Ashton Whitty

Ashton Blaise Whitty was born 1 October, 1995 at Berkeley, California, USA. She is an actress, known for Choices (2010), The Heart and Other Small Shapes (2006) as well as Chrissie Mayr's Content House

Asia Argento, born in Rome to a family which includes directors and actors, pursued both professions. Sogni e bisogni, directed by Sergio Citti and starring Asia Argento at the age of nine, was her debut film. In 1988, she played the principal role in Cristina Comencini's first movie Zoo (1988) in addition to well as being part of Michele's casting on The Church (1989). She was Nanni Moretti's daughter later in the season in Red Wood Pigeon (also directed Moretti) (1989). Close Friends, written and directed by Michele Placido in 1992, was the film that launched Asia's career off. As she grew older, playing girls, she moved on to more complicated and mature characters. Cannes International Film Festival was an enormous success for the film. In Trauma (1993) it was the first time she worked for the first time with her father, famed Italian film director Dario Argento (her mother is among his favorite actors, Daria Nicolodi, playing an obese girl on the lookout of her parents' murderer. The Phantom of the Opera is her third movie she's co-produced with her father. The others being Trauma and The Stendhal SyndromeAsia's absorbed, aggressive style of acting is well utilized in Giuseppe Piccioni's Condannato a Nozze in 1993. played a part in Carlo Verdone's Perdiamoci di Vista in which she portrayed Arianna who was a disabled girl. This was an intricate and difficult character that earned she an award from David di Donatello for best actress . Patrice Chereau was the director. Queen Margot. It was an international role. Her next collaboration was with Michel Piccoli on Peter Del Monte's Traveling Companion in 1995, giving her a second David di Donatello role as and the title Grolla D'oro. In 1994, Asia decided to try her hand at the art of directing, and produced two short films, Prospettive and Prospettive in 1996, she made a documentary of her father. In 1998, she directed a documentary about the the cult director Abel Ferrara, Abel/Asia (1998) that won an award at the Rome Film Festival. Asia's first feature length film debut is Scarlet Diva (2000) in 1999, where she also was the lead actor and also wrote the screenplay. The film was released on May 20 the 20th of May, 2000 in Italy along with the rest of world. The film was released on Brooklyn, New York it won a award at the Williamsburg film festival. Anna Lou, the first of two daughters she has was born in the month of January in 2001. The year 2002 saw Asia appear as Jean-Marc Barr's co-star The Red Siren (Olivier Megaton) as well as Vin Diesel was the star in Rob Cohen's thriller The Action. Asia has also written a few short stories that were published in a variety of magazines.