Asia Argento and Ashton Whitty

Ashton Blaise Whitty, an actress, was born 1 October 1995, in Berkeley, California. Her most well-known role is for her acting, having appeared as a character in Choices (2011), The Heart and Other Small Shapes (2004) as well as Chrissie Mair's Content House.

Asia Argento is an Italian actress and filmmaker who is a member of an extended family that included both. She's pursued the two fields of work for herself. At the age of nine, Asia Argento began her acting career in Sergio Cittis Sogni e bisogni. She played the leading role in Cristina Comencini's Zoo (1988) and appeared in Michele Soavi's 1989 movie The Church. Red Wood Pigeon, directed also by Moretti in 1989, featured her character in the role of Nanni Moretti's daughter. Close Friends (1992) by Michele Placido (both writer and director) is the year that Asia started to really take off. The film let her progress beyond the role of cute girls into more complex adult character. Cannes International Film Festival was a great success for the film. In Trauma (1993) the actress worked for the first time with her father, famed Italian filmmaker Dario Argento (her mother is among the most beloved actors of Argento, Daria Nicolodi, playing an anorexic girl in search for her parents' killer. The Phantom of the Opera is a film that was created in collaboration with her father who passed away, is the third of three films she's worked on. The other two were Trauma and The Stendhal Syndrome. Giuseppe Piccioni used her absorbed and intense style of acting in Condannato a nozze. Patrice Chereau directed her in Queen Margot the film, in which she played a prominent role. She worked again with Michel Piccoli on Peter Del Monte's Traveling Companion in 1995, which earned her another David di Donatello as and the title Grolla D'oro. Asia started to direct short films in the year 1994. Two of them were made: Prospettive In 1996, she produced a documentary on her father and then Abel/Asia in 1998, about the cult film director Abel Ferrara. This latter was presented at the Rome Film Festival. Asia began her directorial debut as a feature film in 1999 with Scarlet Diva (2000). It was also her main actor, as well as the writer of the film's script. The film was released on May 20, 2000, in Italy and around the world. It was awarded a special prize by the Williamsburg Film Festival in Brooklyn. Anna Lou, the first of two daughters she has, was born in January 2001. In 2002, she appeared in The Red Siren by Olivier Megaton with Jean-Marc Barr and in the action thriller directed of Rob Cohen, with Vin Diesel. Asia is the creator of several short stories, that were published in various magazines.