Ashton Whitty and Asia Argento

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

Asia Argento began her career as an actress at the age of nineteen in Rome. Her family also comprises of film makers. The Church was directed by Michele Soavi. In the year following, she played Nanni Moritti's child on screen in Red Wood Pigeon. Her profession took off after she landed the role of Nanni's little girl in Close Friends. It was a huge success at the Cannes International Film Festival. She worked with her father for the the first time Trauma, a renowned Italian director of horror, Dario Argento. The mother of her, Daria Nicoleli, is the most adored actress of Argento, as she portrayed an orexic trying to track down the killer of her parents. Dario Argento's Phantom of the Opera is the third film she has created with her father the others being Trauma as well as The Stendhal Syndrome Asia's absorbed her intense, dramatic style was well-used in Giuseppe Piccioni's Condannato, a nozze . Co-starring with Carlo Verdone in Perdiamoci di perspective as Arianna an actress who is physically disabled. The intricate and challenging role won her the David di Donatello award for Best actress. Her 1995 work with Michel Piccoli for Peter Del Monte's Compagna di viaggio won her the David di Donatello award, and the Grolla of Oro. Asia started directing in the year 1994 and released two short films as well as an episode of the movie De Generazione. In 1996, she produced an documentary on her father and AbelAsia which was a documentary about the famous director Abel Ferrara. In 1998, Asia directed AbelAsia, which was awarded by the Rome Film Festival. Asia's feature directing debut was Scarlet Diva, in which she was the main actress, and also wrote the screenplay. The film was released in May 2000 in Italy and the rest of the world. It was awarded during the Williamsburg Film Festival in Brooklyn, New York.