Asia Argento and Ashton Whitty

Birthday of Ashton Blaise Whitty is 1 October in Berkeley, California. Her most well-known role is for her acting who has appeared on screen in Choices (2011), The Heart and Other Small Shapes (2004), and Chrissie Mair's Content House.

Asia Argento, born in Rome to a family which includes actors and directors, pursued both professions. Sogni e bisogni, directed by Sergio Citti and starring Asia Argento when she was nine was her first film. The film featured her in a lead role as Cristina Comencini in her first film Zoo, 1988. Michele Soavi directed The Church 1989. In the following year, she was Nanni Moretti's daughter in Red Wood Pigeon (1989) (also directed by Moretti). It was with Close Friends (1992), written and directed by Michele Placido, that Asia's career truly took off. she could transition from portraying very young girls to more mature, complex characters. The film was a hit at the Cannes International Film Festival. In Trauma (1993), she worked for the first time with her father, famed Italian horror director Dario Argento (her mother is one of Argento's favorite actresses, Daria Nicolodi, playing an anorexic girl in search for her parents' killer. The Phantom of the Opera is the third film she's made together alongside her father, the other two being Trauma and The Stendhal SyndromeAsia's intense, intense style of acting was well-loved by Giuseppe Picioni's Condannato a Nozze in 1993. co-starred in Carlo Verdone's Perdiamoci di Via in which she portrayed Arianna a physically handicapped girl. This was an intricate and difficult character that earned her an award from David di Donatello for best actress . Patrice Chereau was her director in Queen Margot the film, in which she played a prominent role. The actress was again a part of Michel Piccoli on Peter Del Monte's Traveling Companion in 1995, earning her another David di Donatello role as in addition to the title Grolla D'oro. Asia began directing for profession in 1994. Her first short film was Prospettive. A documentary she wrote about her father was followed by Abel/Asia (1998) the film which won an award in the Rome Film Festival in 1998. They were each directed between 1996 and 1998. Asia began directing her first feature-length film in 1999, with Scarlet Diva (2000). It was also her main actor, as well as the writer of the script. It was released on May 20, 2000 in Italy and across the globe. In Brooklyn, New York it received an award from the Williamsburg film festival. Anna Lou, the first daughter of the couple was born in the month of January of 2001. In 2002 Asia appeared as a character in The Red Siren with Jean Marc Barr, and Rob Cohen's Action-Thrille, directed by Vin Diesel. Asia also has a selection of stories that have appeared in prestigious magazines.