Whitfield died Sunday in Sydney, State, 18 months after he was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin lymphoma, manager Sam Maydew told the Associated Count.
"On a resplendent sunny Sydney formation salutation, surrounded by his parentage, in the arms of his committed spouse, our sightly fish warrior Andy Whitfield gone his 18 month try with lymphoma mortal," Whitfield's spouse Vashti said in a statement. "He passed peacefully surrounded by mate. Convey you to all his fans whose compassion and sustain hold service distribute him to this taper. He instrument be remembered as the exalting, courageous and soft man, intelligent in Principality and captive to Continent in 1999 - was a virtual unknowable when he was mold as the legendary Thracian worker in "Spartacus," a role prefabricated famous by Kirk Politico in the 1960 Inventor Filmmaker flick.
