Chelsie Preston-Crayford Biography – Chelsie Preston-Crayford Wiki
Chelsie Preston-Crayford is a New Zealand actress and filmmaker. She is known for her role as Destiny in The Royal Treatment. She made her acting debut at the age of 13 in the New Zealand-made TV series A Twist in the Tale starring William Shatner. She graduated in 2008 with a Bachelor of Performing Arts from Toi Whakaari New Zealand Drama School.
Her feature film credits include Home By Christmas, directed by Gaylene Preston, Killing Time, Eagle Vs Shark, which was Official Selection, Sundance Film Festival and Anthony McCarten’s Show Of Hands.
Her television credits include Underbelly: Razor as notorious Kings Cross madam, Tilly Devine. For this performance she won the Graham Kennedy award for Outstanding New Talent at the 2012 Logies. She also appeared in Bliss, The Cult, for which she was nominated for the Qantas Film & Television award for Best Supporting Actress, My Story, Revelation, The Tribe and William Shatner’s A Twist In The Tale.
Her theatre work includes Carnival Of Souls for the Sydney Festival, The Vagina Monologues, Dog Sees God and Broken China, Ruben Guthrie and That Face both directed by Shane Bosher.
She was awarded Best Performance in a Short Film at the 2007 New Zealand Screen Awards for her role in Peter Salmon’s Fog, winner of the audience vote at Cannes Film Festival Critics Week.
Her short film, Falling Up, which she wrote, directed and starred in, won the Madman Jury Prize 2018 for Best Short Film at New Zealand International Film Festival. The NZIFF jury said: “A film that effortlessly unravels not only the exhaustion and heartache and grief of being a recently-separated young mum, but the mundane joy, the unending love, and the moments of quiet triumph. Falling Up had us laughing one moment and close to tears the next. A masterful, stand-out film in this year’s line-up.” Falling Up is inspired by her break up with her ex-partner and father of her child, Ray Edwards.
Chelsie Preston-Crayford Age
She was born Chelsie Florence Preston Crayford in 1987, in Wellington, New Zealand.
Chelsie Preston-Crayford Family
She is the daughter of legendary filmmaker Gaylene Preston and musician Jonathan Crayford; granddaughter of Tui Preston and Ed Preston; and niece of Jan Preston and Edward Preston.
Chelsie Preston-Crayford Baby
Chelsie Preston-Crayford has a daughter, Olive, with her ex-partner Ray Edwards. She starred with daughter Olive in Falling Up. Her ex-partner and father to Olive, Ray Edwards, was the cinematographer. The film is about a universal subject: breaking up with a partner, but includes the less talked about aspect of a small child being involved, plus highlights an awkward truth – how difficult and monotonous parenting can be.
She told Stuff: “My mission was to capture the intimacy, intensity and relentlessness of it. We don’t like to show or talk about how hard it is but I don’t think we should feel like bad parents by acknowledging it’s not easy. There is now such pressure to be a perfect parent. The perfect diet. Talk to them in the perfect way. Take them to f…ing jumping beans. There are so many methodologies and so much judgement.”
Chelsie Preston-Crayford Height
She stands at a height of 5 feet 7½ inches (1.71 m).
Chelsie Preston-Crayford Instagram
Chelsie Preston-Crayford’s Instagram handle is @chelsieflorence.