Asia Argento and Ashton Whitty

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

Asia Argento was born in Rome, Italy, into the family of actors as well as filmmakers. Both are careers she herself has taken up. Sogni e bisogni, directed by Sergio Citti and starring Asia Argento at the age of nine, was her very first film. She played the lead role in the film of Cristina Comencini's Zoo (1988) as well as a part of Michele Savi's 1989 feature film The Church. Red Wood Pigeon, directed also by Moretti in 1989, featured her role in the role of Nanni Moretti's young daughter. Close Friends (1992) by Michele Placido (both writer and director) is where Asia started to really take off. It helped her move beyond the role of cute females to more sophisticated adult character. Cannes International Film Festival received the film with great awe. Trauma was the first film she created by her father. Her mother Daria Nicoledi, is Argento's favorite actress. In Trauma she portrayed an anorexic seeking the murderer of her parents. The Phantom of the Opera, which was made in collaboration with her father who passed away The Phantom of the Opera is the third three films she's acted in. The other two were Trauma and The Stendhal Syndrome. Giuseppe Piccioni utilized her intense and intense style of acting in the film Condannato a Nozze. Patrice Chereau directed Queen Margot and she also played an important character. In 1995, Asia worked alongside Michel Piccoli to produce Peter Del Monte's Traveling Companion, for which she won a David di Donatello. In 1994, Asia began filmmaking and made two short films, Prospettive and Prospettive In 1996 she made a documentary of her father and, in 1998, one on cult director Abel Ferrara, Abel/Asia (1998) that received an award from the Rome Film Festival. Asia was first introduced as a director of feature in Scarlet Diva (2000). In this film, she was also the lead actress and wrote the screenplay. In May of 2000, the film premiered in Italy as well as around the world. It was awarded a special prize at the Williamsburg Festival of Film in Brooklyn. Anna Lou, her first child was born to her in 2001. She has directed numerous music videos. She starred with Jean-Marc Barr as Jean-Marc Barr in The Red Siren, directed by Olivier Megaton. In 2003 she starred alongside Vin Diesel and Rob Cohen's action-thriller. Asia also has a collection of short stories which have appeared in prestigious magazines.