Arkie Whiteley

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Arkie Whiteley
Born
Deya Whiteley

(1964-11-06)6 November 1964
Westminster, London, England[ citation needed ]
Died19 December 2001(2001-12-19) (aged 37)
Sydney, Australia
Resting place Lavender Bay, Sydney, Australia
OccupationActress
Spouses
  • Christopher Kuhn
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    ​
    (m. 1995;div. 1999)​
  • Jim Elliott
    ​
    (m. 2001)​

Arkie Deya Whiteley (6 November 1964 – 19 December 2001) was an Australian actress who appeared in television and film.

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Early life and education

Whiteley's parents were the renowned Australian artist Brett Whiteley and cultural figure Wendy Whiteley. According to her obituary in The Times newspaper, when living with her parents at the Hotel Chelsea in New York as an infant, her babysitter was singer Janis Joplin. [1] Arkie was educated at Ascham School in Sydney and at an alternative school: the Australian International School at North Ryde, Sydney. She also attended Cremorne Girls High.

Career

Her television and film work included A Town Like Alice , Razorback , Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior , Gallowglass , Princess Caraboo and The Last Musketeer with Robson Green. [2] She also appeared in the television series Prisoner as troubled prostitute/junkie Donna Mason and in early episodes of A Country Practice . [3] [4]

After her father's overdose in 1992, [5] she negotiated with the New South Wales government to purchase his studio and run it as a studio museum managed by the Art Gallery of New South Wales. [6]

Personal life

Whiteley married her first husband Christopher Kuhn in 1995; [7] they divorced in 1999. She married her second husband Jim Elliott in December 2001, shortly before she died from adrenal cancer on December 19, at age 37. She had a seven-year relationship with actor Paul Rhys, who nursed her during her illness.

She was cremated at Sydney's Northern Suburbs Crematorium. Both Arkie's and her father Brett's ashes are buried in an undisclosed location in Wendy's Secret Garden in the Sydney North Shore suburb of Lavender Bay.

Filmography

Film

YearTitleRoleNotes
1980 Slippery Slide TV movie
1981 The Killing of Angel Street Tina BensonFeature film
Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior The Captain's GirlFeature film
1984 Razorback Sarah CameronFeature film
1989 Scandal VickyFeature film
1990 The Secret Life of Ian Fleming GallinaTV movie
1994 Princess Caraboo BettyFeature film
1999Without WarningMegan TurnerTV movie
2000The Last MusketeerDr. Elizabeth FraserTV movie

Television

YearTitleRoleNotes
1978; 1979 The Mike Walsh Show Guest – HerselfTV series, 1 episode
1978People Like UsYoung Elaine FrithTV miniseries, 3 episodes
1979 A Place in the World TV miniseries, 1 episode
1979; 1980 The Mike Walsh Show Guest – HerselfTV series, 1 episode
1980 Spring & Fall AngelaTV series, Episode: "The Last Card"
1980; 1983 The Mike Walsh Show Guest – HerselfTV series, 1 episode
1981 Menotti TV series, 1 episode
1981A Sporting ChanceTV series, 1 episode 2: "Nobody Loves A Loser"
1981 A Town Like Alice AnnieTV miniseries, 2 episodes
1981 Parkinson in Australia GuestTV series, 1 episode
1981 A Country Practice Jenny SecombeTV series, 2 episodes
1982 Prisoner Donna MasonTV series, 13 episodes
1983 The Mike Walsh Show Guest – HerselfTV series, 1 episode
1983–84 Kings Alison KingTV series, 13 episodes
1990 Screen Two MaryTV series, 1 Episode: "Drowning in the Shallow End"
1990 Perfect Scoundrels FleurTV series, 2 episodes
1991 Van der Valk Ruth Van Der ValkTV series, 1 episode: "Doctor Hoffmann's Children"
1991 4 Play Girl on beachTV series, 1 episode: "But Beautiful"
1992 Love Hurts Annabel GoldingTV series, 2 episodes
1992Natural LiesJo ScottTV series, 3 episodes
1993 Gallowglass NinaTV miniseries, 3 episodes
1993 Sweating Bullets Patsy StrattonTV series, 1 episode: "The Patsy"
1995 Casualty Eleanor MorriseyTV series, 1 episode: "Money for Nothing"
1996–97 Kavanagh QC Helen AmesTV series, 6 episodes
1998 The Grand Madame Euphrasine de Bourg D'OisansTV series, 1 episode: "Episode #2.5"
1998 McCallum CatrinTV series, 1 episode: "Beyond Good and Evil"
2000A Dinner of HerbsMadeleine CottleTV miniseries, 3 episodes
2001 A Touch of Frost Dr. Helena GibsonTV series, 1 episode: "Benefit of the Doubt: Part 1" (final appearance)

References

  1. ↑ "Living the dream". 29 July 2016. Retrieved 25 October 2017.
  2. ↑ "Arkie Whiteley". BFI. Archived from the original on 18 May 2017.
  3. ↑ "Prisoner: Cell Block H – episode 290". www.wwwentworth.co.uk.
  4. ↑ "Arkie Whiteley".
  5. ↑ Katrina, Strickland (2013). Affairs of the art : love, loss and power in the art world. Carlton, Vic.: Melbourne University Publishing. ISBN   978-0-522-85862-4. OCLC   829995695.
  6. ↑ "Studio history :: About the Studio :: Brett Whiteley Studio :: Art Gallery NSW". www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au. Archived from the original on 11 April 2020. Retrieved 4 April 2020.
  7. ↑ "The will to win – smh.com.au". www.smh.com.au. 14 December 2002. Retrieved 25 October 2017.
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