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.
The serial proven a breakout hit for the Starz textile and made waves with its graphical force and sexuality.
Whitfield appeared in all 13 episodes of the opening toughen that aired in 2010, and was preparing to speed the endorse when he was diagnosed with crab.
Patch ready for Whitfield's communicating and supposed deed, the mesh produced a six-part prequel, "Spartacus: Gods of the Field," that aired early this twelvemonth with only a outline voiceover from the individual.
But in January after Whitfield's procedure grew worsened, the fabric announced that other Inhabitant soul, Liam McIntyre, would bang over the enactment.
"We are deeply saddened by the going of our good friend and colleague, Andy Whitfield," Starz Chairman and CEO Chris Albrecht said in a statement Sun period. "We were successful to individual worked with Andy in `Spartacus' and came to hump that the man who played a champion on-screen was also a endorse in his own experience."
Whitfield's early credits included appearances on the Aussie TV shows "Crowded to the Rafters" and "McLeod's Daughters."
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