Whittaker's radio credits include a 2008 adaptation of Blinded By The Sun by Stephen Poliakoff, which also starred Harriet Walter and Alex Jennings and the role of Lydia Bennett in Unseen Austen an original drama by Judith French.

She appears in the film The Kid. In 2009 she worked on the film Ollie Kepler's Expanding Purple World and the BBC 2 drama Royal Wedding.