Asia Argento and Ashton Whitty

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

Asia Argento is an Italian actress and film director who was born into an extended family that included both. She's pursued the two professions her own. Sogni e bisogni, directed by Sergio Citti and starring Asia Argento when she was nine, was her very first film. In 1988 the film of Michele Soavi's The Church was directed by Michele Soavi and she played part of the character Cristina Comencini's Zoo. Red Wood Pigeon, directed by Moretti in 1989, featured her character in the role of Nanni Moretti's little daughter. Close Friends (1992) by Michele Placido (both writer and director) is the year that Asia started to really take off. This let her progress beyond the role of cute girls into more complex adult characters. It was a huge success during the Cannes International Film Festival. Trauma (1996) and The Stendhal Syndrome are other films she has worked on with her famous father. The Phantom of the Opera is the third film she has acted in with her Father, her first two movies being Trauma & The Stendhal Syndrome. Asia's dedication and passion for acting was also utilized for the part of Giuseppe Piccioni in Condannato a Nozze. Patrice Chereau was her director in Queen Margot the film, in which she played a prominent role. In 1995, Asia collaborated with Michel Piccoli to produce Peter Del Monte's Traveling Companion, for which she received a prize from David di Donatello. Asia began her career in 1994 as a director when she made two short films: Prospettive (1996), documentary about her father as well as Abel/Asia (1998), a film about the cult film maker Abel Ferrara. The latter won an award from the Rome Film Festival. In 1999 Asia made her feature-directing debut with Scarlet Diva (2000), where she acted as the lead actress as well as the writer for the script. The movie was released worldwide in May 2000. The film was awarded a prize in the Williamsburg International Film Festival in Brooklyn. In 2001, after directing several music videos and giving birth, she welcomed her first child, Anna Lou. In 2002 she starred in The Red Siren by Olivier Megaton with Jean-Marc Barr and in the action thriller directed in the film by Rob Cohen, with Vin Diesel. Asian's short stories have been published in some of the most prestigious magazines.