Andy Whitfield

Andy Whitfield's story still aches. A Welsh engineering graduate who reinvented himself as an actor, he commanded the screen as the lead in Spartacus with a 188 cm frame and a ferocious intensity. Then cancer took him at just 39, right as he was breaking through. I cannot help wondering what kind of career he might have built, and that lost potential gives his single starring role an almost mythic weight. What stays with me is how completely he inhabited that warrior, fearless and magnetic. Some performers burn briefly but unforgettably, and Whitfield is exactly that kind of flame.

Name (English)

Andy Whitfield

Name (Japanese)

アンディ・ホイットフィールド

Reading

あんでぃ・ほいっとふぃーるど

Born

October 17, 1971 – September 11, 2011

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Libra / Boar

Origin

Amlwch, United Kingdom

Height

188 cm

Occupation

actor / model / film actor / television actor

University

Sheffield Hallam University

• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy%20Whitfield
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%A2%E3%83%B3%E3%83%87%E3%82%A3%E3%83%BB%E3%83%9B%E3%82%A4%E3%83%83%E3%83%88%E3%83%95%E3%82%A3%E3%83%BC%E3%83%AB%E3%83%89
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q219700

Tags

• actor
• model
• film actor

Last updated

2026-06-17

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