Alison Whyte
Template:Short descriptionPage Module:Message box/ambox.css has no content.
 |
Script error: No such module "Distinguish".
Page Module:Infobox/styles.css has no content.
Alison Whyte | |
|---|---|
| Born | Script error: No such module "person date". Tasmania, Australia |
| Died | Script error: No such module "person date". |
| Education | Victorian College of the Arts |
| OccupationTemplate:Pluralize from text | Actress (stage and screen) |
| EmployerTemplate:Pluralize from text | Template:Pluralize from text |
| OrganizationTemplate:Pluralize from text | Template:Pluralize from text |
| AgentTemplate:Pluralize from text | Template:Pluralize from text |
| Notable creditTemplate:Pluralize from text | Template:Pluralize from text |
| LabelTemplate:Pluralize from text | Template:Pluralize from text |
| OpponentTemplate:Pluralize from text | Template:Pluralize from text |
Criminal chargeTemplate:Pluralize from text | Template:Pluralize from text |
| SpouseTemplate:Pluralize from text | Template:Pluralize from text |
| PartnerTemplate:Pluralize from text | Template:Pluralize from text |
| Template:Pluralize from text | |
Script error: No such module "Check for conflicting parameters".Script error: No such module "Check for deprecated parameters".
Alison Whyte (born 1968) is an Australian actress best known for her roles on the Australian television series Frontline and Satisfaction.
Acting career
A former student of classical ballet, Whyte graduated from the Victorian College of the Arts before rising to prominence on Australian television for her role as the moralising producer Emma Ward on Frontline, the ABC's parody of current affairs programs – a role for which she won the 1997 Silver Logie Award for Most Outstanding Actress. From 2007 to 2010 she played Lauren, the housewife-turned-prostitute on Satisfaction. She won the 2008 Silver Logie Award for Most Outstanding Actress for this role.
Her other television roles have included the legal comedy-drama Marshall Law and Good Guys Bad Guys. She has also guest starred in an episode of City Homicide. Whyte's film roles include the two-actor film Saturday Night, with Aaron Pedersen, and The Dressmaker directed by Jocelyn Moorhouse. Whyte is also one of Australia's leading stage actors, with roles in A Midsummer Night's Dream, Twelfth Night and Much Ado About Nothing. In 2008, she appeared in a production of David Williamson's play Don's Party at the Sydney Opera House.
In 2010, Whyte won Best Female Actor in Supporting Role in a Play at the 10th Annual Helpmann Awards for her portrayal of Queen Elizabeth in Richard III, directed by Simon Phillips.[1] She was also nominated for Best Female Actor in a Play in 2014 for The Bloody Chamber, and in 2017 for Faith Healer.
In 2021, Whyte appeared in the final series of Jack Irish.[2]
In 2023, Whyte appeared in Stan series Scrublands.[3]
In 2023/24, Whyte played Linda Loman opposite Anthony LaPaglia's Willy in an Australian production of Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman.[4]
Other work
From 1995 to 2007 Whyte and her husband Fred Whitlock ran the Terminus Hotel in Abbotsford, Melbourne. The couple then went on to own the Yarra Glen Grand Hotel, in the Yarra Valley, before selling it in 2015.
Whyte has visited Vietnam and Cambodia as a spokesperson for Oxfam.
Awards
| Association | Award/honour | Year | Work | Results |
| Logie Awards | Silver Logie for Most Outstanding Actress | 1997 | Frontline as Emma Ward | Won |
| Logie Award | Silver Logie for Most Outstanding Actress | 2000 | Satisfaction | Won |
| Helpmann Awards | Helpmann Award for Best Female Actor in a Supporting Role in a Play | 2010 | Richard III as Queen Elizabeth II | Won |
| Helpmann Awards | Helpmann Award for Best Female Actor in a Play | 2014 | The Bloody Chamber | Nominated |
| Helpmann Awards | Helpmann Award for Best Actor in a Play | 2017 | Faith Healer | Nominated |
Filmography
Film
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2000 | Saturday Night | Simone | |
| 2003 | Subterano | JD | |
| 2003 | Roundabout | Angela Taylor | Short |
| 2007 | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Mrs. Glassman | |
| 2010 | Centre Place | Jo | |
| 2015 | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Marigold Pettyman | |
| 2015 | Emily | Emily | Short |
Television
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990 | Bony | Gina | TV series |
| 1990 | Neighbours | Amber Martin | 8 episodes |
| 1990 | Skirts | Natalie | "Sons and Lovers" |
| 1991 | Kelly | Cathy Taylor | "The Fire" |
| 1991 | Boys from the Bush | Eva | "State and Commonwealth" |
| 1993 | All Together Now | Harriet Guest | "Killing Me Softly", "I Am Woman" |
| 1994 | Blue Heelers | Janelle Davis | "The First Stone" |
| 1994–97 | Frontline | Emma Ward | Main role |
| 1996 | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Fifi | Regular role |
| 1996 | G.P. | Tracey | "Drowning by Numbers" |
| 1997 | Kangaroo Palace | Barbara | TV film |
| 1997 | Good Guys Bad Guys: Only the Young Die Good | Stella Kinsella | TV film |
| 1997–98 | Good Guys, Bad Guys | Stella Kinsella | Main role |
| 1998 | State Coroner | Jessica Geddes | "Body of Evidence" |
| 1998 | Driven Crazy | Mrs. Bourke | Main role |
| 1999 | SeaChange | Katrina Fennessy | "Vaya Con Dios to All That", "Broken Hearts and Crustaceans", "Sink or Swim" |
| 2000 | Introducing Gary Petty | Flight Attendant | "The Flight Attendant Who Did Me Wrong" |
| 2001 | Dogwoman: The Legend of Dogwoman | Jacinta Davies | TV film |
| 2002 | Marshall Law | Verity Marshall | Main role |
| 2003 | CrashBurn | Gillian | "A Red Mexican Warehouse" |
| 2006 | Small Claims: The Reunion | Pip | TV film |
| 2006 | Real Stories | Vicky Welsh | "1.2" |
| 2007 | City Homicide | Petra Milde | "Envelope Day" |
| 2007–10 | Satisfaction | Lauren | Main role |
| 2009–10 | Tangle | Nicky Barnham | Recurring role |
| 2012 | Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries | Joyce Gaskin | "Death by Miss Adventure" |
| 2015 | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Monika Goodman | "King of the Lake" |
| 2015 | Glitch | Lucy Fitzgerald | "Miracle or Punishment", "The Impossible Triangle" |
| 2016 | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Deb Russell | Main role |
| 2021 | Fisk (TV series) | Ruth | Client with unusual request |
| 2021 | Jack Irish | Nina Persky | Series 3, recurring role |
| 2023 | Scrublands | Catherine Bond | TV Series "1.1" , "1.4" |
| 2026 | The Glass Menagerie[5] | Amanda Wingfield | Melbourne Theatre Company production, leading role |
References
Page Template:Reflist/styles.css has no content.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Winners". Archived from the original on 8 September 2010. Retrieved 7 September 2010.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Knox, David (7 June 2021). "Alison Whyte juggles lockdown & Jack Irish | TV Tonight". TV Tonight. Retrieved 4 February 2024.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Knox, David (16 November 2023). "Scrublands | TV Tonight". TV Tonight. Retrieved 4 February 2024.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Death of a Salesman | Critically Acclaimed Production". Death of a Salesman. Retrieved 10 June 2024.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."The Glass Menagerie". www.mtc.com.au. Retrieved 26 May 2026.
External links
- Alison Whyte at IMDbTemplate:Edit at Wikidata
- Australian Television Information Archive
- Jill Stark, "Pub with guilt-free beer" in The Age, Sept 22, 2005
- Alison Whyte's character Lauren from Satisfaction
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Navbox/configuration' not found.
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Authority control/config' not found.
