Asia Argento and Ashton Whitty

Birthday of Ashton Blaise Whitty falls on 1 October in Berkeley, California. Her work is recognized as an actress in Choices (2010). The Heart and Other Small Shapes (2007) as well as Chrissie's Content House

Asia Argento is an Italian actress and film director who is a member of a large family of both. She's pursued the two professions herself. When she was nine the actress made her acting debut in Sergio Cittis Sogni e bisogni. She played the leading role in Cristina Comencini's Zoo (1988) as well as part of Michele Soavi's 1989 movie The Church. The actress played Nanni Moretti's daughter later in the time on the film Red Wood Pigeon (also directed Moretti) (1989). Close Friends (written and directed by Michele Placido) was when Asia's acting career took off. The roles she played changed from being very young and then becoming mature. The film received an enthusiastic review during the Cannes International Film Festival. The film, Trauma (1993) the actress made her debut alongside her father, the renowned Italian horror director Dario Argento (her mother is one of Argento's favorite actresses, Daria Nicolodi, playing an obese girl on the lookout of her parents' killer. The Phantom of the Opera marks her third collaboration alongside her dad. The others are Trauma and The Stendhal Syndrome. Giuseppe Piccioni's Condannato A Nozze showed Asia's absorption way of acting. In 1993, she portrayed Arianna in Carlo Verdone's Perdiamoci di vista, a role which was so complicated that she received the David di Donatello Award for best actress. Patrice Chereau was her director in Queen Margot, where she played a prominent role. The actress was again a part of Michel Piccoli on Peter Del Monte's Traveling Companion in 1995, giving her a second David di Donatello, as and a Grolla D'oro. Asia began directing short films in the year 1994. The two she directed were Prospettive, 1996, she directed a document about her father, and Abel/Asia in 1998, about the cult film director Abel Ferrara. This latter was awarded at the Rome Film Festival. Asia was first introduced as a feature-length director with Scarlet Diva (2000). The film featured her as a director. She was also the lead actress and wrote the screenplay. In May 2000, the movie was made available both in Italy as well as around the world. The film was released on Brooklyn, New York it won a award at the Williamsburg film festival. Anna Lou was her first born child in the year 2001. After the directing of several music videos she had Anna Lou. In 2002 Asia appeared in The Red Siren with Jean Marc Barr, and Rob Cohen's Action thriller, which was directed by Vin Diesel. The short stories of Asia have been featured in prestigious publications.