In 2007 she stood in at short notice for an unwell actress in the Royal Court’s production of The Seagull, and appeared in a fundraising play at the Almeida Theatre. in 2009 she worked on the film Ollie Kepler’s Expanding Purple World and the BBC2 drama Royal Wedding. Whittaker appeared in Ian Fitzgibbon’s 2009 Irish comedy crime film Perrier’s Bounty, alongside Cillian Murphy and Jim Broadbent. She appears as Viv in the 2011 BBC adaptation of Sarah Waters’ novel The Night Watch.
