Ashton Whitty and Asia Argento

Ashton Blaise Whitty born October 1st, 1995 in Berkeley California USA. She is an actor known for Choices (2010, The Heart and Other Small Shapes, 2006) and Chrissie Mair's Content House 2022.

Asia Argento, born in Rome into a family that also includes actors and directors was also a professional. The Church, directed by Michele Soavi, was her debut role. In the year following, she played Nanni Moritti's baby on screen in Red Wood Pigeon. Her professional career took off after she landed the role of Nanni's daughter for the film Close Friends. This movie received a positive review in the Cannes International Film Festival. She worked with her father for the very first time in Trauma, a renowned Italian director of horror, Dario Argento. The mother of her, Daria Nicoleli, is Argento's favourite actress, as she portrayed an orexic seeking to locate her parents' killer. Asia's absorbed intense style of performing was well used in Giuseppe Piccioni's Condannato a nozze. In 1993, Asia starred as Arianna a disabled child in the film Perdiamoci by Carlo Verdone di vista. It was a complex and demanding role for which she won her the David di Donatello. In 1995 she co-starred with Michel Piccoli in Peter Del Monte's Compagna di viaggio which again brought her a David diDonatello and a Grolla d'oro. Asia began acting as a profession in 1994. She produced two shorts, an episode of De Generazione. The following year, in 1996, Asia made a document on her father. In 1998, Asia made a feature film about Abel Ferrara (AbelAsia), that was awarded an award by the Rome Film Festival. Asia began directing her first feature in 1999. It was Scarlet Diva. For the film she also played the main character and composed the script. The film released May 20, 2000, both in Italy and the rest of world. It was awarded during the Williamsburg Film Festival in Brooklyn, New York.