Arkie Whiteley | |
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Born | Deya Whiteley 6 November 1964 |
Died | 19 December 2001 37) Sydney, New South Wales, Australia | (aged
Resting place | Lavender Bay, New South Wales, Australia |
Occupation | Actress |
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Arkie Deya Whiteley (6 November 1964 – 19 December 2001) was an Australian actress who appeared in television and film.
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 the prestigious Ascham School in Sydney and at an alternative school: the Australian International School at North Ryde, Sydney. She also attended Cremorne Girls High.
Her television and film work included A Town Like Alice , Razorback , Mad Max 2 , 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]
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.
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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1980 | Slippery Slide | TV movie | |
1981 | The Killing of Angel Street | Tina Benson | Feature film |
Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior | The Captain's Girl | Feature film | |
1984 | Razorback | Sarah Cameron | Feature film |
1989 | Scandal | Vicky | Feature film |
1990 | The Secret Life of Ian Fleming | Gallina | TV movie |
1994 | Princess Caraboo | Betty | Feature film |
1999 | Without Warning | Megan Turner | TV movie |
2000 | The Last Musketeer | Dr. Elizabeth Fraser | TV movie |
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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1978; 1979 | The Mike Walsh Show | Guest - Herself | TV series, 1 episode |
1978 | People Like Us | Young Elaine Frith | TV miniseries, 3 episodes |
1979 | A Place In The World | TV miniseries, 1 episode | |
1979; 1980 | The Mike Walsh Show | Guest - Herself | TV series, 1 episode |
1980 | Spring & Fall | Angela | TV series, Episode: "The Last Card" |
1980; 1983 | The Mike Walsh Show | Guest - Herself | TV series, 1 episode |
1981 | Menotti | TV series, 1 episode | |
1981 | A Sporting Chance | TV series, 1 episode 2: "Nobody Loves A Loser" | |
1981 | A Town Like Alice | Annie | TV miniseries, 2 episodes |
1981 | Parkinson in Australia | Guest | TV series, 1 episode |
1981 | A Country Practice | Jenny Secombe | TV series, 2 episodes |
1982 | Prisoner | Donna Mason | TV series, 13 episodes |
1983 | The Mike Walsh Show | Guest - Herself | TV series, 1 episode |
1983–84 | Kings | Alison King | TV series, 13 episodes |
1990 | Screen Two | Mary | TV series, 1 Episode: "Drowning in the Shallow End" |
1990 | Perfect Scoundrels | Fleur | TV series, 2 episodes |
1991 | Van der Valk | Ruth Van Der Valk | TV series, 1 episode: "Doctor Hoffmann's Children" |
1991 | 4 Play | Girl on beach | TV series, 1 episode: "But Beautiful" |
1992 | Love Hurts | Annabel Golding | TV series, 2 episodes |
1992 | Natural Lies | Jo Scott | TV series, 3 episodes |
1993 | Gallowglass | Nina | TV miniseries, 3 episodes |
1993 | Sweating Bullets | Patsy Stratton | TV series, 1 episode: "The Patsy" |
1995 | Casualty | Eleanor Morrisey | TV series, 1 episode: "Money for Nothing" |
1996–97 | Kavanagh QC | Helen Ames | TV series, 6 episodes |
1998 | The Grand | Madame Euphrasine de Bourg D'Oisans | TV series, 1 episode: "Episode #2.5" |
1998 | McCallum | Catrin | TV series, 1 episode: "Beyond Good and Evil" |
2000 | A Dinner of Herbs | Madeleine Cottle | TV miniseries, 3 episodes |
2001 | A Touch of Frost | Dr. Helena Gibson | TV series, 1 episode: "Benefit of the Doubt: Part 1" (final appearance) |
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