Asia Argento and Ashton Whitty

Birthday of Ashton Blaise Whitty is 1 October, in Berkeley, California. She is known as an actress for Choices (2010). The Heart and Other Small Shapes (2007) and Chrissie's Content House

Asia Argento was born in Rome, Italy, into an extended family of actors and filmmakers. Both professions she has herself been pursuing. At the age of nine she made her acting debut in Sergio Cittis's Sogni e bisogni. She played the lead role in the film of Cristina Comencini's Zoo (1988) as well as part of Michele Soavi's 1989 film The Church. Red Wood Pigeon, directed also by Moretti in 1989, played her character as Nanni Moretti's little daughter. It was with Close Friends (1992), written and directed by Michele Placido, that Asia's career really took off and she was able to move on from playing very young girls into more mature, complex role. It was received well during the Cannes International Film Festival. She's made three films with her father, Trauma, The Stendhal syndrome, and Phantom of opera. The Phantom of the Opera is her third movie she's co-produced alongside her father, the previous two being Trauma as well as The Stendhal Syndrome. Asia's deeply absorbed and aggressive style of acting is well utilized in Giuseppe Piccioni's Condannato a nozzeIn 1993 she was a co-star in the film Perdiamoci di Via in which she played Arianna who was a disabled girl--an intricate, difficult part that earned it the David di Donatello Award for the most outstanding actress . Patrice Chereau was the director. Queen Margot. The actress had a role that was internationally acclaimed. Her 1995 collaboration with Michel Piccoli, in Peter Del Monte's Traveling Companion won her yet another award, this time the David di Donatello and Grolla of Oro. Asia started directing in the year 1994 she produced two short films: Prospettive (1996), a document on her father, and Abel/Asia (1998) Abel/Asia, a feature about cult film maker Abel Ferrara. The latter was awarded an award at the Rome Film Festival. In 1999, Asia began her film-directing career with Scarlet Diva (2000), in which she was the main actress and writer of the screenplay. The film was released on May 20, 2000, in Italy and the rest of the world. The film won an award at the Williamsburg Film Festival in Brooklyn, New York. Anna Lou, her first child was born to her in the year 2001. She had directed several music videos. In 2002, she appeared in The Red Siren by Olivier Megaton with Jean-Marc Barr as well as the action-packed film directed in the film by Rob Cohen, with Vin Diesel. Asia is the creator of several short stories, that have been published in a variety of magazines.