 Whitehouse won for Best Actor at the 1973 Feltex Awards for her role in "An Awful Silence".In 1978 she won the Best Actress "Sammy" for "The Night Nurse" at the Australian FIlm and Television Awards.In the 1985 Queen's Birthday Honours Whitehouse was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) for services to the performing arts, and in 1987 she was the subject of an episode of the New Zealand version of "This is Your Life".