Arkie Whiteley
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Arkie Deya Whiteley was an Australian actress who appeared in television and films.
Arkie Whiteley's parents were the renowned artist Brett Whiteley
and his wife 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 US blues
singer Janis Joplin
. Arkie was educated at the prestigious Ascham School
in Sydney after attending an alternative school Devonshire Street in Chatswood on the north shore of Sydney.
Her television and film work included: A Town Like Alice
, Razorback
, Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior, Gallowglass, Princess Caraboo
, plus The Last Musketeer with Robson Green
. She also appeared in the television series Prisoner
as troubled prostitute/junkie Donna Mason, and in early episodes of A Country Practice
.
After her father's death in 1992, 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
.
She lived with the British actor Paul Rhys
for seven years. She married her first husband Christopher Kuhn in 1995; they divorced in 1999. She married her second husband Jim Elliott in December 2001, shortly before she died from adrenal cancer on 19 December, aged 37 (on Paul Rhys's birthday). During her final illness, she was cared for by her mother, and her friend and sometimes lover Malcolm Tweedie.
Arkie Whiteley's parents were the renowned artist Brett Whiteley
Brett Whiteley
Brett Whiteley, AO was an Australian artist. He is represented in the collections of all the large Australian galleries, and was twice winner of the Archibald Prize...
and his wife Wendy Whiteley
Wendy Whiteley
Wendy Whiteley OAM is an Australian artist and cultural icon.She is sometimes described as the "grande dame of the Sydney art scene"...
. According to her obituary in The Times
The Times
The Times is a British daily national newspaper, first published in London in 1785 under the title The Daily Universal Register . The Times and its sister paper The Sunday Times are published by Times Newspapers Limited, a subsidiary since 1981 of News International...
newspaper, when living with her parents at the Hotel Chelsea
Hotel Chelsea
The Hotel Chelsea, also known as the Chelsea Hotel, or simply the Chelsea, is a historic New York City hotel and landmark, known primarily for its history of notable residents...
in New York as an infant her babysitter was US blues
Blues
Blues is the name given to both a musical form and a music genre that originated in African-American communities of primarily the "Deep South" of the United States at the end of the 19th century from spirituals, work songs, field hollers, shouts and chants, and rhymed simple narrative ballads...
singer Janis Joplin
Janis Joplin
Janis Lyn Joplin was an American singer, songwriter, painter, dancer and music arranger. She rose to prominence in the late 1960s as the lead singer of Big Brother and the Holding Company and later as a solo artist with her backing groups, The Kozmic Blues Band and The Full Tilt Boogie Band...
. Arkie was educated at the prestigious Ascham School
Ascham School
Ascham School is an independent, non-denominational, day and boarding school for girls', located in Edgecliff, an Eastern Suburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia....
in Sydney after attending an alternative school Devonshire Street in Chatswood on the north shore of Sydney.
Her television and film work included: A Town Like Alice
A Town Like Alice
A Town Like Alice is a novel by the British author Nevil Shute about a young Englishwoman in Malaya during World War II and in outback Australia post-war....
, Razorback
Razorback (film)
Razorback is a 1984 Australian film, based on Peter Brennan's novel, written by Everett De Roche, and directed by Russell Mulcahy who would later make the first two of the Highlander trilogy...
, Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior, Gallowglass, Princess Caraboo
Princess Caraboo (film)
Princess Caraboo is a 1994 British-American historical comedy-drama film co-written and directed by Michael Austin, based on the real-life 19th-century character Princess Caraboo, who passed herself off in British society as an exotic princess who spoke a strange foreign language; she is portrayed...
, plus The Last Musketeer with Robson Green
Robson Green
Robson Green is an English actor, singer–songwriter and presenter.-Biography:Robson Golightly Green was born in Hexham, Northumberland, and baptised in Bethel Chapel, , and named in Northeast tradition as first son after family surnames: Robson is his grandmother's maiden surname, while Golightly...
. She also appeared in the television series Prisoner
Prisoner (TV series)
Prisoner is an Australian television soap opera which was set in the Wentworth Detention Centre, a fictional women's prison. The series was produced by the Reg Grundy Organisation and ran on Network Ten for 692 episodes from 27 February 1979 to 11 December 1986.The series was inspired by the 1970s...
as troubled prostitute/junkie Donna Mason, and in early episodes of A Country Practice
A Country Practice
A Country Practice is an Australian television drama series. One of the longest-running of its kind, produced by James Davern of JNP Productions, it ran on the Seven Network for 1,058 episodes from 18 November 1981 to 22 November 1993. It was produced in ATN-7's production facility at Epping,...
.
After her father's death in 1992, 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
Art Gallery of New South Wales
The Art Gallery of New South Wales , located in The Domain in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, was established in 1897 and is the most important public gallery in Sydney and the fourth largest in Australia...
.
She lived with the British actor Paul Rhys
Paul Rhys
Paul Rhys is a British television, film and theatre actor.Rhys was born in Wales and studied at RADA, leaving with the Bancroft Gold Medal in 1987. While there, he obtained his first major screen role, in Absolute Beginners . Since then he has seldom been off the stage and screen...
for seven years. She married her first husband Christopher Kuhn in 1995; they divorced in 1999. She married her second husband Jim Elliott in December 2001, shortly before she died from adrenal cancer on 19 December, aged 37 (on Paul Rhys's birthday). During her final illness, she was cared for by her mother, and her friend and sometimes lover Malcolm Tweedie.
Filmography
| Film | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Year | Film | Role | Notes |
| 1994 1994 in film 1994 was a significant year in film.The top grosser worldwide was The Lion King, which to date stands as the highest-grossing traditionally-animated film of all time... |
Princess Caraboo Princess Caraboo Mary Baker was a noted impostor who went by the name Princess Caraboo. She pretended to be from a faraway island and fooled a British town for some months.-Biography:... |
Betty | |
| 1989 1989 in film -Events:* Batman is released on June 23, and goes on to gross over $410 million worldwide.* Actress Kim Basinger and her brother Mick purchase Braselton, Georgia, for $20 million... |
Scandal (1989 film) | Vicky | |
| 1984 1984 in film -Events:* The Walt Disney Company founds Touchstone Pictures to release movies with subject matter deemed inappropriate for the Disney name.* Tri-Star Pictures, a joint venture of Columbia Pictures, HBO, and CBS, releases its first film.... |
Razorback (film) Razorback (film) Razorback is a 1984 Australian film, based on Peter Brennan's novel, written by Everett De Roche, and directed by Russell Mulcahy who would later make the first two of the Highlander trilogy... |
Sarah Cameron | |
| 1981 1981 in film -Events:*January 19 - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer acquires beleaguered concurrent United Artists. UA was humiliated by the astronomical losses on the $40,000,000 movie Heaven's Gate, a major factor in the decision of owner Transamerica to sell it.... |
Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior Mad Max 2 is a 1981 Australian post-apocalyptic action film directed by George Miller. The film is the second installment in the Mad Max film series, with Mel Gibson starring as Max Rockatansky... |
The Captain's Girl | |
| The Killing of Angel Street The Killing of Angel Street The Killing of Angel Street is a 1981 Australian thriller film based on the real life disappearance of Juanita Nielson, an activist against mass development in Sydney in the late 1970s.... |
Tina Benson | ||
Television
- A Touch of Frost as Dr. Helena Gibson (1 TV episode, 2001) in Benefit of the Doubt: Part 1
- A Dinner of Herbs as Madeleine Cottle (3 TV episodes, 2000) in Episode #1.4, Episode #1.3 , & Episode #1.2
- The Last Musketeer (2000) (TV) as Dr. Elizabeth Fraser
- Without Warning (1999) (TV) as Megan Turner
- McCallumMcCallumMcCallum is a British television series that was produced by STV Productions .Dr Iain McCallum was the original lead character, played by John Hannah. McCallum was a forensic pathologist who traveled by Triumph Motorcycle, and solved murders...
as Catrin (1 TV episode, 1998) in Beyond Good and Evil - The GrandThe Grand (TV series)The Grand was a British television drama series first broadcast on ITV in 1997-1998. It was written by Russell T Davies and set in a hotel in Manchester in the 1920s....
as Madame Euphrasine de Bourg D'Oisans (1 TV episode, 1998) in Episode #2.5 - Kavanagh QCKavanagh QCKavanagh QC is a British television series made by Carlton Television for ITV between 1995 and 2001. It has been shown on ITV3 as recently as August 2011; series 1–6 are available on Region 2 DVDs....
as Helen Ames (6 TV episodes, 1996–1997) in Diplomatic Baggage, Ancient History, Blood Money, Mute of Malice, Job Satisfaction, - CasualtyCasualty (TV series)Casualty, stylised as Casual+y, is a British weekly television show broadcast on BBC One, and the longest-running emergency medical drama television series in the world. Created by Jeremy Brock and Paul Unwin, it was first broadcast on 6 September 1986, and transmitted in the UK on BBC One. The...
as Eleanor Morrisey (1 TV episode, 1995) in Money for Nothing - Sweating BulletsSweating BulletsSweating Bullets may refer to:*"Sweating Bullets" , by Megadeth from their 1992 album Countdown to Extinction*"Sweatin Bullets", a song by Brand Nubian from their 1994 album Everything is Everything...
as Patsy Stratton (1 TV episode, 1993) in The Patsy - GallowglassGallowglass (miniseries)Gallowglass is a British television mini-series adaptation of the Ruth Rendell novel of the same name. It is an emotional story of obsessive love, lust and fear.-Plot:...
as Nina (3 TV episodes, 1993) - Natural Lies (1992) TV series as Jo Scott (unknown TV episodes)
- Love HurtsLove Hurts"Love Hurts" is the name of a song, written and composed by Boudleaux Bryant. First recorded by The Everly Brothers in July 1960, the song is also well known from a 1975 international hit version by the rock band Nazareth and in the UK by a top 5 hit in 1975 by Jim Capaldi.The song was introduced...
as Annabel Golding (2 TV episodes, 1992) in Let's Do It, & Stormy Weather - 4 Play as Girl on beach in 'But Beautiful' (1 TV episode, 1991)
- Van der Valk as Ruth van der Valk (1 TV episode, 1991) in Doctor Hoffmann's Children
- Perfect Scoundrels as Fleur (2 TV episodes, 1990) in The Day of Jubilo, & Bad Penny Blues
- The Secret Life of Ian Fleming (1990) (TV) as Gallina
- Screen Two as Mary (1 TV episode, 1990) in Drowning in the Shallow End
- KingsKings (TV series)Kings is a 1983 Australian television series dealing with the working-class King family living in Sydney. It starred Mark Kounnas and Melissa Jaffer and was aired on the Nine Network. It was the first drama series produced by PBL Productions, and ran for 19 hour-long episodes that began on 12 July...
(1983) TV series - Caged Women as Donna Mason (13 TV episodes, 1982) in Episode #1.290, Episode #1.292 (1982), Episode #1.293 (1982), Episode #1.294 (1982), Episode #1.295 (1982)
- A Country PracticeA Country PracticeA Country Practice is an Australian television drama series. One of the longest-running of its kind, produced by James Davern of JNP Productions, it ran on the Seven Network for 1,058 episodes from 18 November 1981 to 22 November 1993. It was produced in ATN-7's production facility at Epping,...
as Jenny Secombe (2 TV episodes, 1981) in General Practice: Part 2, & General Practice: Part 1 - A Town Like AliceA Town Like AliceA Town Like Alice is a novel by the British author Nevil Shute about a young Englishwoman in Malaya during World War II and in outback Australia post-war....
(1981) TV mini-series as Annie - Slippery Slide (1980) (TV)
- Spring & Fall as Angela (1 TV episode, 1980) in The Last Card
- People Like UsPeople Like UsPeople Like Us is a British comedy programme, a spoof on-location documentary written by John Morton, and starring Chris Langham as Roy Mallard, an inept interviewer...
as Young Elaine Frith (3 TV episodes, 1978) in Strike, The First Lessons in Love, & The Odd Families