Ashton Whitty and Asia Argento

Ashton Blaise Whitty is an American actress, born in Berkeley on the 1st of October 1996. She is an American actress who has appeared on screen in Choices (2010) and The Heart and Other Small Shapes (2004).

Asia Argento was raised in Rome by an acting and film-making family. She pursued both professions herself. The actress made her film debut when she was nine years old in Sergio Citti's Sogni bisogni. In 1988 she was the lead of Cristina Comencini's Zoo and part of Michele Soavi's The Church. Red Wood Pigeon was the next year, and Asia as Nanni's daughters. Close Friends was written by Michele Placido and was directed by her. It was at this point that Asia's career began to take off She shifted from young girl roles to more mature and complicated roles. Cannes International Film Festival received the film well. In Trauma she appeared for the first time with her father, the renowned Italian filmmaker of horror Dario Argento his mother, one of the most beloved actresses by Argento, Daria Nicolodi, playing an obese girl who is in search of her parents' killer. Asia's intense and concentrated style of performance was well utilized in Giuseppe Piccioni's Condannato a nozze. The role she played as Arianna in the film Perdiamoci by Carlo Verdone di vista, which focuses on a physically disabled girl, was a difficult and intricate role, which won it the David di Donatello award for best actor. Her film debut was a performance as Queen Margot, directed by Patrice Cereau. She worked in Peter Del Monte's Compagna di viaggio with Michel Piccoli and won an award from David diDonatello and the Grolla of Oro. Asia's debut short film was an episode in the De Generazione movie. Two years following, Asia became a director and completed two other films. One of them, AbelAsia is a tribute to her dad. In 1999 Asia began her film-directing career with Scarlet Diva with Scarlet Diva, in which she played the lead actor and wrote the screenplay. In May 2000, the movie became available to the public worldwide. The film was awarded an distinction in Brooklyn during the Williamsburg International Film Festival.