Ashton Whitty and Asia Argento

Ashton Blaise Whitty is an American actress born in Berkeley on October 1, 1996. She is an American actress that has appeared on screen in Choices (2010) as well as The Heart and Other Small Shapes (2004).

Asia Argento is an Italian actress and film maker born into the largest family. She has also pursued film and acting. The Church, directed by Michele Soavi, was her debut role. Red Wood Pigeon, the film in which she starred as Nanni Moretti's daughter came out a year after. But it was Close Friends by Michele Placido that saw Asia's acting career explode. Cannes International Film Festival received the film with great awe. Daria Argento and her mother and one of Argento's favorite actors, Daria is an anorexic teenager who is searching for the murderer of her parents Trauma. Dario Argento's the Phantom of the Opera is the third film she has produced with her father, other films being Trauma as well as The Stendhal Syndrome Asia's absorbed and intense acting style is well utilized in Giuseppe Picioni's Condannato a nozze . In 1993, she co-starred in the role of Arianna an disabled girl in Carlo Verdone's Perdiamoci di vista. It was an intricate and demanding character that she was awarded an award of David di Donatello. In 1995, she starred alongside Michel Piccoli in Peter Del Monte's Compagna di viaggio which again brought her the David di Donatello and an award of Grolla of Oro. Asia began her directing career in 1994, releasing two shorts and an episode from the film De Generazione. In 1996, she produced an documentary on her father. She also produced AbelAsia which was a documentary about the famous filmmaker Abel Ferrara. In 1998, Asia directed AbelAsia, that was honoured at the Rome Film Festival. In 1999 Asia made her feature-directing debut with Scarlet Diva in which she was the main actress as well as the writer of the screenplay. The film was released in May 2000 both in Italy and the rest of world. The film was awarded an award during the Williamsburg Film Festival in Brooklyn, New York.