Ashton Whitty and Asia Argento

Ashton Blaise Whitty, born October 1, 1995, was raised in Berkeley, California. She is an actress well-known by her roles in Choices (2010), The Heart and Other Small Shapes (2006) as well as Chrissie Mayr's Content House (2022).

Asia Argento was raised in Rome by a film and actor family. Both professions she pursued herself. When she made her debut, she was just nine years old old in Sergio Citti's Sogni e Bisogni in 1988. she had the leading role in Cristina Comencini's debut film, Zoo, and was part of the cast of The Church directed by Michele Soavi. The following year she played Nanni Moretti's daughter in Red Wood Pigeon It was when she starred in Close Friends written and directed by Michele Placido, that Asia's career truly took off. she was able to change from portraying young girls into more mature, complex roles. Cannes International Film Festival received the film well. Daria Argento and her mother, and one of the actors who was a favorite of Argento's, Daria is an anorexic teenager who is searching for the murderer of her parents Trauma. Dario Argento's Phantom of the Opera is the third movie she's made with her father, other films being Trauma and The Stendhal Syndrome Asia's absorbed, intense style of acting was fully utilized in Giuseppe Piccioni's Condannato a nozze . She co-starred with Carlo Verdone in Perdiamoci di perspective as Arianna, a girl who was physically handicapped. The complex and demanding character earned her an award: a David di Donatello award for Best Actress. The 1995 film she co-directed together with Michel Piccoli for Peter Del Monte's Compagna di viaggio won her the David di Donatello award, as well as a Grolla of Oro. Asia began directing in 1994 and released two short films as well as an episode of the movie De Generazione. In 1996 she directed an documentary on her father, and AbelAsia which was a documentary about the cult film maker Abel Ferrara. In 1998, Asia directed AbelAsia, which won awards at the Rome Film Festival. Asia's first feature-length film directed by her was Scarlet Diva, in which she starred as the lead actress and also wrote the screenplay. The film came out in May 20, 2000, both in Italy as well as around the globe. The Williamsburg Festival of Film in Brooklyn, New York awarded it a prize.