Arianwen Parkes-Lockwood
Arianwen Parkes-Lockwood is an Australian actress and producer.
Early life
Arianwen lived in the small rural area of Black Mountain in the New England Region of New South Wales. She attended Newling Public School and Duval High School in Armidale. She went on to study a Bachelor of Dramatic Art at the National Institute of Dramatic Art, graduating in 2008.Career
After graduating from NIDA, Parkes-Lockwood played Abigail in The Crucible for the Sydney Theatre Company. She also starred in a 2010 Sydney production As You Like It, playing Rosalind.She appeared as Dolly Green in the 2011 television series Underbelly: Razor; then in an episode of Tough Nuts as well as an episode of the two-part BBC docudrama The Kangaroo Gang: Thieves by Appointment.
She was a winner of the 2011 Marten Bequest Travelling Scholarship for acting and filmmaking.
In 2013, she was cast as Olivia Bligh in the Seven Network's 1950s period drama A Place to Call Home in which she appeared for 61 episodes, until 2018. In 2015 she had a guest role as Harriet Edwards in ABC Television's Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries.
Parkes-Lockwood is also a successful voiceover artist, having voiced television commercials for Renault Arkana, LG, Chemist Warehouse, BBC Earth, Nurofen, Manicare, Elastoplast and Magnum.
In 2019, she appeared naked in a video for PETA's anti-wool campaign.
Audiobook narration
The Barbershop Girl by Georgina PenneyBridget Crack by Rachel LearyThe Sister's Song by Louise AllanIslands by Peggy FrewHow to Be Thin in a World of Chocolate by Michael ConnollyThe Fence by Meredith JafféMichelle de Kretser on Shirley Hazzard by Michelle de KretserEight Lives by Susan HurleyBlackwater by Jacqueline RossThe Safe House by Cameron WardBennelong and Phillip by Kate FullagarSisters in Captivity by Colin BurgessSuitcase of Dreams by Tania BlanchardHer Sunburnt County by Deborah FitzGeraldLetters from Berlin by Tania BlanchardThe Lost Love Song by Minnie DarkeThe Girl from Munich by Tania BlanchardParis Dreaming by Katrina LawrenceEcho Lake by Joan SauersWhisky Valley by Joan SauersThe Lace Weaver by Lauren ChaterThe Forgotten Letters of Esther Durrant by Kayte NunnTwo Steps Onward by Anne Buist & Graeme SimsionTwo Steps Forward by Anne Buist & Graeme SimsionDaughter of Calabria by Tania BlanchardStar-Crossed by Minnie DarkeWifedom by Anna FunderMy Brilliant Sister by Amy BrownPersonal life
Parkes-Lockwood is married to writer and voiceover artist Marcello Fabrizi, and together they have a daughter, Serafina, who was born on Christmas Eve, 2017. She encourages people to remove the stigma around miscarriage and talk openly about it, having experienced one herself, prior to having her daughter.Parkes-Lockwood is vegan.