Ashton Whitty and Asia Argento

Ashton Blaise Whitty, born October 1, 1995, was raised in Berkeley, California. Her work includes actress in Choices (2010). The Heart and Other Small Shapes (2007) and Chrissie mayr's Content House 2022.

Asia Argento, born in Rome into a family that also includes actors and directors pursued these professions as well. The Church, directed by Michele Soavi, was her first film role. She was Nanni's daughter in the following season in Red Wood Pigeon. It was her career that really was launched with Close Friends, written and directed by Michele Placido. The movie was well-received at the Cannes International Film Festival. Her father was in the film for the the first time Trauma an award-winning film by Italian horror director Dario Argento. Her mother, Daria Nicoleli, is Argento's favorite actress as she portrayed an orexic looking to find the murderer of her parents. Asia's intense and absorbed acting skills were utilized in the film 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 challenging role, in which she received an award of David di Donatello. The 1995 film she co-directed together with Michel Piccoli for Peter Del Monte's Compagna di viaggio won her an award from David diDonatello in addition to the Grolla oro. The first short film Asia made was a scene from the De Generazione movie. Two years later, Asia became a director and made two more films. One of them, AbelAsia was a homage to her father. Asia started directing her first feature film in 1999. It was Scarlet Diva. In this movie she also acted as the main character and composed the script. The film debuted in May 2000 across Italy as well as the rest of the world. The Williamsburg Festival for Films in Brooklyn, New York awarded the film with a prize.