Asia Argento and Ashton Whitty

Ashton Blaise Whitty is an American actress born in Berkeley on the 1st October 1995. She's an actress known for Choices 2010, The Heart and Other Small Shapes 2006 as well as Chrissie Mayr's Content House

Asia Argento, born in Rome to a household that includes actors and directors, was a professional in both fields. The actress made her debut when she was only nine years old in the film of Sergio Citti, Sogni e bisogni (1985). She played the lead as Cristina Comencini in her first film Zoo, the year 1988. Michele Soavi directed The Church 1989. 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 truly began to take off. This helped her move from the roles of young girls into more complex, mature character. The film was a hit at the Cannes International Film Festival. Trauma was the first film she made by her father. Her mother, Daria Nicoledi, was Argento's most beloved actress. The film Trauma she portrayed an anorexic seeking the murderer of her parents. The Phantom of the Opera is her third film that she's co-produced alongside her father, the others being Trauma and The Stendhal SyndromeAsia's intense, aggressive style of acting was well-loved by Giuseppe Picioni's Condannato a nozzeIn 1993 she played a part in Carlo Verdone's Perdiamoci di Via in which she portrayed Arianna, a physically disabled girl--an intricate, difficult character that earned it the David di Donatello for best actress . Patrice Chereau was the director. Queen Margot. It was a role that was internationally acclaimed. Her next collaboration was with Michel Piccoli on Peter Del Monte's Traveling Companion in 1995, earning her another David di Donatello, as and a Grolla D'oro. Asia took up directing as an occupation in the year 1994. Her debut short film was Prospettive. A documentary she made about her dad was followed by Abel/Asia (1998) the film that was awarded a prize at the Rome Film Festival in 1998. They were both directed between 1996 and 1998. Asia was the director of her first feature in Scarlet Diva (2000). It was a collaborative effort with Asia with screenwriter/actor Linda McArtney. The film premiered worldwide in May 2000. The film won awards at the Williamsburg Festival in Brooklyn, New York. Anna Lou, the first of her two daughters, was born in the month of January in 2001. In 2002, she appeared involved in The Red Siren directed by Olivier Megaton and starred alongside Jean-Marc Barr. Rob Cohen also directed the action film together with Vin Diesel. Asia also wrote several short stories which have been published by a number of magazines.