Before becoming an actor, Whitfield worked as an engineer. He attended Screenwise Film & TV School for Actors, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.[2] He has appeared in several Australian television series, such as Opening Up, All Saints, The Strip, Packed to the Rafters and McLeod's Daughters. He gained his first prominent role in the Australian supernatural film Gabriel.Whitfield also stars in the 2010 television series Spartacus: Blood and Sand, which is filmed in New Zealand.He plays the part of Spartacus, a soldier condemned to fight as a gladiator and who ultimately leads a rebellion against the Romans.
The premiere episode of the series set a record for Starz, with 553,000 viewers on their network, and another 460,000 on Encore, where the show was available only that weekend. For the rest of the season the show had 1.285 million average viewers. Critical reception of the first episode was varied; the review aggregate website Metacritic which assigns a normalized average score out of 100 gave the show a score of 54% based on 22 reviews.
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