Asia Argento and Ashton Whitty

Ashton Blaise Whitty was born on 1 October 1995 at Berkeley, California, USA. She is an actor, famous for 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, was a professional in both fields. Aged nine she made her feature film debut alongside Sergio Citti in Sogni e bisogni. She played the leading role in Cristina Comencini's Zoo (1988) and appeared in Michele Soavi's 1989 film The Church. Later in the year, she was Nanni Moretti's daughter in Red Wood Pigeon (1989) (also directed by Moretti). 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 shifted to more complicated and more mature roles. The film was given a positive response during the Cannes International Film Festival. For Trauma (1993) it was the first time she worked for the first time with her father, well-known Italian film director Dario Argento (her mother is among Argento's favorite actresses, Daria Nicolodi, playing an overweight girl who is in search of her parents' killer. The Phantom of the Opera The film, made together with her late father and is the final of three movies she's been involved in. The other two were Trauma and The Stendhal Syndrome. Giuseppe Piccioni used her absorbed and intense manner of acting in Condannato a nozze. Patrice Chereau directed her in Queen Margot the film, in which she played a prominent role. The actress was again a part of 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 was the first director she met in 1994 with two shorts. Prospettive. In 1996, Asia directed a documentary about her father. in 1998 Asia created Abel/Asia (2000) the award-winning film about Abel Ferrara. Asia made her debut as a director of feature in Scarlet Diva (2000). The film featured her as a director. She also starred and authored the screenplay. It was released on May 20, 2000 both in Italy and across the rest the world. The film won a prize during the Williamsburg International Film Festival, Brooklyn. In 2001, after directing numerous music videos and giving birth, she welcomed her first daughter, Anna Lou. In 2002, she appeared in The Red Siren by Olivier Megaton with Jean-Marc Barr and the action thrilledirected in the film by Rob Cohen, with Vin Diesel. Asia's short stories have also been published in some of the most prestigious magazines.