Ashton Whitty and Asia Argento

Ashton Blaise Whitty is an American actress who was born in Berkeley on the 1st of October 1996. She is an actress well-known for Choices (2010), The Heart and Other Small Shapes (2006) as well as Chrissie Mayr's Content House (2022).

Asia Argento began her career as an actress at the age of nineteen in Rome. The family she is from also includes a number of film makers. The Church, directed by Michele Soavi, was her first film role. Red Wood Pigeon, the film in which she starred as Nanni Moretti's young daughter, was released just a few years later. However, it was Close Friends by Michele Placido that made Asia's acting career take off. Cannes International Film Festival received the movie well. Daria Argento as well as her mother and one of Argento's most beloved actors Daria, played an anorexic teenager who is searching for the murderer of her parents in Trauma. Asia's intense and absorbed performance style was put to good use in Giuseppe Piccioni's Condannato a nozze. In 1993, she starred alongside the Perdiamoci of Carlo Verdone di vista. She performed the role of Arianna, a physically disabled girl--an intricate, difficult part that earned an award from David di Donatello for best actress She also had a featured role in the international cast for Queen Margot directed by Patrice Chereau. The role she played was in Peter Del Monte's Compagna di viaggio with Michel Piccoli, which won her the David di Donatello award and a Grolla d'oro. Asia started her short film directing career in 1994. She also directed an episode for the movie De Generazione. 1996 saw her directing a documentary alongside her father. 1998 saw her direct AbelAsia about the legendary filmmaker Abel Ferrara. This film won a prize at the Rome Film Festival. The year 1999 was the year Asia was the first to direct a feature film by directing Scarlet Diva with Scarlet Diva, in which she was the main actor and wrote the screenplay. The movie was released on May 20, 2000 throughout Italy, and in several other countries. It was awarded at the Williamsburg Film Festival in Brooklyn, New York.