Asia Argento and Ashton Whitty

Ashton Blaise Whitty was born 1 October, 1995 in Berkeley, California, USA. She is an actor who has been featured in Choices 2010, The Heart and Other Small Shapes 2006 as well as Chrissie Mayr's Content House

Asia Argento is an Italian actress and filmmaker who came from a large family of both. She has pursued these two professions herself. At nine years of age she made her feature film debut in the role of Sergio Citti in Sogni e bisogni. She had a leading role in the film as Cristina Comencini in her first film Zoo in the year 1988. Michele Soavi directed The Church 1989. She played Nanni Moretti's daughter in the next season on the film Red Wood Pigeon (also directed Moretti) (1989). Close Friends (1992), written and directed by Michele Placido was the film which launched Asia's career career. It was her first time moving from roles of a young girl to complex and mature roles. The film was a hit at the Cannes International Film Festival. Trauma was her first film produced with her father. The mother of her, Daria Nicoledi is Argento's favourite actor. The film Trauma she played an anorexic seeking her parents' murderer. The Phantom of the Opera is a film that was created together with her late father, is the third of three movies she's been involved in. The other two were Trauma and The Stendhal Syndrome. Giuseppe Piccioni employed her deeply absorbed and intense manner of acting in Condannato a nozze. Patrice Chereau was the director. Queen Margot as well. She also had the role of an physically handicapped girl in the film. Her 1995 collaboration alongside Michel Piccoli, in Peter Del Monte's Traveling Companion won her yet another award from David di Donatello as well as Grolla of Oro. Asia took up directing as profession in 1994. The first film she directed was Prospettive. A documentary she made about her dad followed by Abel/Asia (1998) which was a movie that won a prize in the Rome Film Festival in 1998. They were both directed from 1996 to 1998. In 1999, Asia began her film-directing career by directing Scarlet Diva (2000), where she acted as the main actress and writer of the screenplay. The film premiered worldwide in May 2000. The film was honoured at the Williamsburg Festival in Brooklyn, New York. Anna Lou, her first child was born in 2001. She directed a number of music videos. She was a part of Jean-Marc Barr's performance in The Red Siren, directed by Olivier Megaton. In 2003 she appeared with Vin Diesel and Rob Cohen's action-packed thriller. Asia is also the writer of several stories that have been published in a variety of prestigious magazines