Asia Argento and Ashton Whitty

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

Asia Argento, born in Rome to a household that comprises directors and actors was a professional in both fields. In 1985 she debuted in the film of Sergio Citti, Sogni e bisogni. She played the lead in the film as Cristina Comencini in her first film Zoo which was released in 1989. Michele Soavi directed The Church 1989. She played Nanni Moretti's daughter later in the season in Red Wood Pigeon (also directed Moretti) (1989). Close Friends (1992), directed and written by Michele Placido was the film that launched Asia's acting path. Asia was able to transition between roles for young girls to more mature and complicated roles. Cannes International Film Festival was a great achievement for the film. Trauma (1996) and The Stendhal Sydrome (1996) are two other movies she worked on with her famous father. 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, intense style of acting is well utilized in Giuseppe Piccioni's Condannato A Nozze. In 1993, she co-starred in Carlo Verdone's Perdiamoci di vista where she played Arianna, a physically disabled girl. It was a complex, challenging character that earned she an award from David di Donatello Award for the most outstanding actress . In addition, she had a prominent part in the international cast of Queen Margot produced by Patrice Chereau. In 1995, she starred alongside Michel Piccoli as Traveling Companion by Peter Del Monte. This performance earned her the David di Donatello award (for the top actor) as well as an award from Grolla in Oro. In 1994, Asia began filmmaking and made 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), which was awarded an award at the Rome Film Festival. Asia's first feature length film debut came in the form of Scarlet Diva (2000) in 1999, where she also played the role of lead actress and wrote the screenplay. The film came out on May 20, 2000, in Italy and around the world. It won an award in the Williamsburg Film Festival in Brooklyn, New York. Anna Lou, the first of her two daughters was born in January of 2001. She was a part of Jean-Marc Barr's performance in The Red Siren, directed by Olivier Megaton. In 2003 she was in Vin Diesel and Rob Cohen's action thriller. Asia has also written several short stories which were published in a variety of magazines.