Asia Argento and Ashton Whitty

Ashton Blaise Whitty's birthday falls on 1 October, in Berkeley, California. She is an actress of renown that has appeared in Choices (2010). The Heart and Other Small Shapes (2006,) and Chrissie Mayr's Content House.

Asia Argento, born in Rome to a household that comprises directors and actors pursued both professions. When she was nine she made her feature film debut alongside Sergio Citti in Sogni e bisogni. In 1988 the film of Michele Soavi's The Church was directed by Michele Soavi and she played part of the character Cristina Comencini's Zoo. She played Nanni Moretti's daughter later in the time for Red Wood Pigeon (also directed Moretti) (1989). Close Friends, written and directed Michele Placido in 1992, was the film that launched Asia's career off. From playing young girls, she moved on to play more complex and more mature roles. The film received an enthusiastic response during the Cannes International Film Festival. For Trauma (1993) the actress worked for the first time with her father, famed Italian film director Dario Argento (her mother is one of his favorite actors, Daria Nicolodi, playing an obese girl on the lookout of her parents' killer. The Phantom of the Opera is her third movie she's co-produced alongside her father, the previous two being Trauma as well as The Stendhal Syndrome. Asia's deeply absorbed and intense style of acting was well-loved by Giuseppe Picioni's Condannato a Nozze in 1993. was a co-star in the film Perdiamoci di Via in which she played Arianna who was a disabled girl. It was a complex, challenging character that earned her the David di Donatello award for the best actress . Patrice Chereau was the director. Queen Margot. She had an international role. In 1995, her collaboration together with Michel Piccoli, in Peter Del Monte's Traveling Companion won her yet another award, this time the David di Donatello and Grolla of Oro. Asia started directing in the year 1994, and produced two shorts: Prospettive (1996), a document on her father as well as Abel/Asia (1998) Abel/Asia, a feature about the cult filmmaker Abel Ferrara. The latter won an award from the Rome Film Festival. Asia started directing her first feature film in 1999 with Scarlet Diva (2000). The film also featured her as the principal actor, as well as the writer of the script. The movie was released all over the world in May 2000. The film won an prize at the Williamsburg Film Festival in Brooklyn, New York. Anna Lou, the first of her two daughters was born in the month of January 2001. In 2002 she starred in The Red Siren by Olivier Megaton along with Jean-Marc Barr, and in the action thriller directed in the film by Rob Cohen, with Vin Diesel. Asia also wrote some short stories which were published in a variety of magazines.