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

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. 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.

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. 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 overdose 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.

Personal life

Whiteley 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 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

Television

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.

External links

• Arkie Whiteley at IMDb
• Child of Fame (Sydney Morning Herald, Saturday 22 December 2001)

• 1964 births
• 2001 deaths
• Australian film actresses
• Australian soap opera actresses
• Australian people of English descent
• Deaths from cancer in New South Wales
• Deaths from adrenocortical cancer
• People educated at Ascham School
• 20th-century Australian actresses
• 21st-century Australian actresses
• Julius family
• Alumni of the Italia Conti Academy of Theatre Arts