Andy Whitfield has worked in film and modeling. This Australian actor is known to the audience, first of all, for the main role in the television series "Spartacus: Blood and Sand".
Biography
Andy Whitfield was born on October 17, 1971 in the northernmost town of Wales, Amluh, and died at the age of 39 on September 11, 2011 in Sydney. He had dual citizenship - Wales and Australia. In 1999 he graduated from the University of Sheffield in Yorkshire, England. Andy holds an engineering degree. He then moved to the Australian capital and worked there as a consulting agency. He had a second position - a construction inspector.
Since Whitfield wanted to become an actor, he received his professional education at the Sydney drama school. In parallel with his engineering work, he was an actor, model and photographer. In the end Andy decided to focus on the stage and the camera. In 1999, he married Terrick Smith-Whitfield. The marriage was short-lived, and Andy linked his future life with Vashti Whitfield, with whom he had 2 children. Whitfield's son is Jesse Red, and his daughter is Indigo Skye.
Career
In 2004, Andy starred in a couple of episodes of All Saints, directed by Bevan Lee. This is a medical drama about a general hospital. Three years later, he played Gabriel in Shane Abbess's Angel of Light. The rest of the main roles in this mystical action movie were played by Dwayne Stevenson, Samantha Noble, Erica Heinetz and Michael Pickirilli.
In 2008, Andy could be seen in the crime drama series Stripe as Charlie Palmer. This is a police detective starring Aaron Jeffrey, Simone McAulley, Vanessa Gray, Bob Morley. In the same year, he played in 2 more TV series - "MacLeod's Daughters" and "Packed in the Rafters", as well as in the documentary "Angels of Light: On the Other Side of Madness". MacLeod's Daughters is a drama series by Posey Graham-Evans and Caroline Stanton. It stars Breedie Carter, Lisa Chappell, Rachel Carpani, Simmon Jade McKinnon, Aaron Jeffrey, Michala Banas, Abi Tucker, Matt Passmore, Zoe Naylor and Jessica Napier. "Packed in the rafters" is a family tragicomedy by Bevan Lee. In total, the series has 6 seasons, it aired on a major Australian channel from 2008 to 2013.
In 2010, Andy starred in the movie Clinic, which tells the story of 6 women who have lost their newborn children. The thriller is directed by James Rabbits. In the same year, shooting of the series "Spartacus: Blood and Sand" began, where Whitfield plays Spartacus. In addition, you can see the Scotsman John Hann, New Zealander Manu Bennett, Canadian Peter Mensah, Australian Viva Bianca and American Erin Cummings. In the same year he participated in the creation of the comedy show "Project: Comic-Con". On this, the career of the famous actor ended in connection with his death from a bodice.
