Asia Argento and Ashton Whitty

Ashton Blaise Whitty is an American actress born in Berkeley on October 1, 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 family which comprises directors and actors was a professional in both fields. When she was nine the actress began her acting career in Sergio Cittis's Sogni e bisogni. The role she played was the main one in Cristina Comencini's Zoo (1988) as well as a part of Michele Savi's 1989 feature film The Church. In 1989 she portrayed Nanni Moretti's child in Red Wood Pigeon. (Also directed by Moretti). Close Friends, written and directed Michele Placido in 1992, was where Asia's career took off. After playing the role of young girls, she moved on to perform more challenging and more mature roles. This movie received a positive response at the Cannes International Film Festival. Trauma (1996) and The Stendhal Sydrome are the others she's collaborated on with her renowned father. The Phantom of the Opera marks her third collaboration with her father. The others are Trauma as well as The Stendhal Syndrome. Giuseppe Piccioni's Condannato a nozze demonstrated Asia's intense way that she exhibited in her performing. The year 1993 saw her played Arianna in Carlo Verdone's Perdiamoci di vista. It was a character in which she was so intricate that she earned the David di Donatello prize for the best actress. Patrice Chereau directed her in Queen Margot, where she was a major character. The collaboration she had alongside Michel Piccoli, in Peter Del Monte's Traveling Companion won her yet another award from David di Donatello and Grolla of Oro. In 1994, Asia began filmmaking and made two film shorts: Prospettive In 1996, she produced a documentary about her father. In 1998, one on the cult director Abel Ferrara, Abel/Asia (1998) that was awarded an award at the Rome Film Festival. Asia's first feature length film debut was Scarlet Diva (2000) in 1999, where she also acted as the lead actress and wrote the screenplay. The film was released on May 20 the 20th of May, 2000 in Italy along with the rest of world. The film was awarded an award in the Williamsburg Film Festival in Brooklyn, New York. Anna Lou, her first child was born in the year 2001. She had directed several music videos. The year 2002 saw Asia appear as Jean-Marc Barr's co-star in The Red Siren (Olivier Megaton) and Vin Diesel was the star of Rob Cohen's action thriller The Action. Asia also wrote a few short stories that were published in a variety of magazines.