Ashton Whitty and Asia Argento

Ashton Blaise Whitty, born October 1, 1995, was raised in Berkeley, California. She is an actress from America that has appeared on screen in Choices (2010) and The Heart and Other Small Shapes (2004).

Asia Argento, born in Rome into a family that includes directors and actors, also pursued these careers. At the age of nine and acting, she made her debut in Sergio Citti's Sogni e bisogni. in 1988 she portrayed the leading role in the first feature of Cristina Comencini's film Zoo. Additionally, she was a part of Michele Soavi's cast in The Church. Red Wood Pigeon was the next year, and Asia played Nanni's daughters. Close Friends was written by Michele Placido and was directed by her. This was when Asia's career began to take off, and she moved from young girl roles to mature and complex ones. The movie was well-received at the Cannes International Film Festival. Daria Argento and her mother and one the actors who was a favorite of Argento's, Daria, played an anorexic teenager searching for the killer of their parents, in Trauma. Dario Argento's the Phantom of the Opera is the third film she's made with her father, the others being Trauma as well as The Stendhal Syndrome Asia's absorbed her intense, dramatic style was fully utilized in Giuseppe Piccioni's Condannato, a nozze . In 1993 she co-starred in the Perdiamoci of Carlo Verdone di vista, in which she played Arianna who was a disabled girl--an intricate, difficult role that won her the David di Donatello award for most outstanding actress. She also played a featured role in the cast international in the film Queen Margot directed by Patrice Chereau. She was a part of Peter Del Monte's Compagna di viaggio with Michel Piccoli, which won her a David di Donatello and the Grolla d'oro. Asia began acting as a profession in 1994 and produced two shorts and one of which was De Generazione. The following year, in 1996, Asia made a document about her father. Then, in 1998 was the year that Asia created a feature-length film about Abel Ferrara (AbelAsia), that was awarded an award by the Rome Film Festival. Asia was the director of her first feature film Scarlet Diva (1999), where she was both the actress leading the film as well as the writer of the screenplay. The film released May 20, 2000, both in Italy as well as the rest of world. The film received an award at the Williamsburg Festival in Brooklyn, New York.