Arianwen Parkes-Lockwood (born 24 July 1987) is an Australian actress and producer.
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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 (Acting) at the National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA), 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 (2011) as well as an episode of the two-part BBC docudrama The Kangaroo Gang: Thieves by Appointment (2011).
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.
Filmography
Audiobook narration
The Barbershop Girl by Georgina Penney
Bridget Crack by Rachel Leary
The Sister's Song by Louise Allan
Islands by Peggy Frew
How to Be Thin in a World of Chocolate by Michael Connolly
The Fence by Meredith Jaffé
Michelle de Kretser on Shirley Hazzard by Michelle de Kretser
Eight Lives by Susan Hurley
Blackwater by Jacqueline Ross
The Safe House by Cameron Ward
Bennelong and Phillip by Kate Fullagar
Sisters in Captivity by Colin Burgess
Suitcase of Dreams by Tania Blanchard
Her Sunburnt County by Deborah FitzGerald
Letters from Berlin by Tania Blanchard
The Lost Love Song by Minnie Darke
The Girl from Munich by Tania Blanchard
Paris Dreaming by Katrina Lawrence
Echo Lake by Joan Sauers
Whisky Valley by Joan Sauers
The Lace Weaver by Lauren Chater
Personal 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.