Asia Argento and Ashton Whitty

Ashton Blaise Whitty's birthday falls on 1 October, in Berkeley, California. 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 is an Italian actor and director of films who was born into an extended family that included both. She's taken on these two fields of work for her own. Sogni e bisogni, directed by Sergio Citti and starring Asia Argento, at nine, was her debut film. In 1988, she played the lead role in Cristina Comencini's first film, Zoo (1988), and was in the ensemble of The Church (1989), directed by Michele Soavi. Later in the year, she was Nanni Moretti's daughter in Red Wood Pigeon (1989) (also directed by Moretti). Close Friends (1992) by Michele Placido (both writer and director) is where Asia truly began to begin to take off. The film let her progress from the roles of young females to more sophisticated, mature characters. Cannes International Film Festival was a huge success for the film. Trauma (1996) as well as The Stendhal Syndrome are two other movies she made with her famous father. The Phantom of the Opera is the third film she's made together with her father. The previous two being Trauma as well as The Stendhal SyndromeAsia's intense, intense style of acting is well utilized in Giuseppe Piccioni's Condannato a Nozze in 1993. co-starred in Carlo Verdone's Perdiamoci di vista where she played Arianna a physically handicapped girl--an intricate, difficult role that won she the David di Donatello for best actress . Also, she was a part of the performance in the international ensemble of Queen Margot directed by Patrice Chereau. She also was in a role with Michel Piccoli as Traveling Companion as played by Peter Del Monte. This performance earned her an award from David di Donatello (for the best actor) as well as a Grolla de Oro. In 1994, Asia decided to try her hand at directing and turned out two short films, Prospettive and Prospettive In 1996 she directed a documentary on her father, and in 1998, she directed a documentary about the the cult director Abel Ferrara, Abel/Asia (1998) and received an award from the Rome Film Festival. Asia made her debut as a feature director in Scarlet Diva (2000). The film featured her as a director. She played the role of a lead actor and also wrote the screenplay. In May 2000, the film was released both in Italy and across the world. The film was honoured during the Williamsburg Festival of Brooklyn, New York. Anna Lou, the first of her two daughters was born in the month of January of 2001. She was in 2002 on the screen as The Red Siren by Olivier Megaton alongside Jean-Marc Bar and the action thrilledirected of Rob Cohen, with Vin Diesel. Asia is the writer of a number of short stories that have been published in various magazines.