Ashton Whitty and Asia Argento

Ashton Blaise Whitty was born on the 1st October 1995, in Berkeley, California, USA. She is an actress, well-known for Choices 2010. (also in the form of The Heart and Other Small Shapes), Chrissie Mayr's Content House (2022), as well as The Heart and Other Small Shapes.

Asia Argento is an Italian actress and film-maker who is the daughter of a large household. She has pursued both professions herself. She first made her debut in film at the age of nine in Sergio Citti's Sogni bisogni. In 1988 she had become the main character of Cristina Comencini's Zoo as well as a part of Michele Soavi's The Church. In the following year, she appeared as Nanni Moretti's daughter Red Wood Pigeon It was with Close Friends written and directed by Michele Placido, that Asia's career took off, and she could move on from playing very young girls, to larger, more sophisticated roles. The film received an enthusiastic review during the Cannes International Film Festival. Daria Argento and her mother and one of Argento's favorite actors, Daria is an anorexic teenage girl who was searching for the killer of their parents, in Trauma. Dario Argento's The Phantom of the Opera is the third movie she's created with her father the others being Trauma and The Stendhal Syndrome Asia's absorbed, intense style of acting was fully utilized in Giuseppe Piccioni's Condannato a nozze . In 1993, Asia co-starred as Arianna a disabled child in Carlo Verdone's Perdiamoci di vista. This was a challenging and demanding role in which she received her the David di Donatello. She worked in Peter Del Monte's Compagna di viaggio with Michel Piccoli and won a David di Donatello and a Grolla of Oro. Asia started directing short films in 1994. She also directed an episode for the movie De Generazione. 1996 saw her directing a documentary alongside her father. 1998 was the year she directed AbelAsia about the famous filmmaker Abel Ferrara. This film was awarded a prize at the Rome Film Festival. Asia produced her debut film in Scarlet Diva (1999), in which she was the lead actress as well as the writer of the screenplay. It premiered worldwide during May of 2000. It won an award at the Williamsburg Film Festival in Brooklyn, New York.