Arianwen lived in the small rural area of Black Mountain in the New England Region of New South Wales.

[4] 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.

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.

[6] [8][9] Parkes-Lockwood is married to writer and voiceover artist Marcello Fabrizi,[10] 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.