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Chelsie Florence

Actor

By the time she'd graduated from drama school Toi Whakaari, Chelsie Florence had won an award for acclaimed short Fog and acted in three features, including a starring role in Home by Christmas as her own grandmother. She has gone on to play a cult member (TV series The Cult) and Katherine Mansfield's lover (telemovie Bliss). She also won awards in Australia for TV thriller The Code and a starring role as a crimelord in the 1920s edition of Underbelly. In 2017 she acted in Kiwi movie drama The Inland Road. Formerly known as Chelsie Preston Crayford, she is the daughter of director Gaylene Preston and musician Jonathan Crayford.

My mum was the director, so it was amazing to be able to work so closely together on a story we both knew so intimately. It was a once in a lifetime experience. Chelsie Preston Crayford on playing her own grandmother in 2010 movie Home by Christmas

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Nude Tuesday

2022, As: Julie - Film

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Cousins

2021, As: Jean (adult) - Film

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Baby Done

2020, As: Alice - Film

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Savage

2019, As: Flo - Film

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The Bad Seed

2019, As: Roza Hallwright - Television

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Golden Boy - First Episode

2019, Co-Director - Television

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The Bad Seed - First Episode

2019, As: Roza Hallwright - Television

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Hot Words and Bold Retorts

2018, As: Arabella Manktelow - Short Film

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Golden Boy

2018 - 2020, Director - Television

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Falling Up

2018, Writer, Director, As: Ra - Short Film

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Beyond the Known World

2017, As: Astrid - Film

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The Inland Road

2017, As: Donna - Film

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Jean

2016, As: Amy Johnson - Television

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25 April

2015, As: Muriel Wakeford - Film

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What We Do in the Shadows

2014, As: Josephine - Film

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Hope and Wire - Full Series

2014, As: Monee - Television

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The Waterside

2014, As: Monee - Music video

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Bliss: The Beginning of Katherine Mansfield

2011, As: Edie - Television

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The Making of Home by Christmas

2010, Subject - Short Film

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Home by Christmas

2010, As: Tui - Film

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The Cult - First Episode

2009, As: Hannah - Television

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The Cult

2009, As: Hannah - Television

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Show of Hands

2008, As: Betsy - Film

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Fog

2007, As: Telly - Short Film

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White Lie

2007, Dancer - Short Film

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Eagle vs Shark

2007, As: Jenny (Burger staffmember) - Film

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MyStory

2007, As: Kat - Web

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QTV - First Episode

2005, Presenter - Television

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The Tribe

2001, As: Red Number One - Television

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William Shatner's A Twist in the Tale

1998, As: Kate - Television

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Olives

1994, As: The Girl - Short Film

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Shortland Street

2003, 2022, As: Missy, Justine Lloyd - Television

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Last Days at McVay Street

1988, Subject - Short Film

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Today Tonight - Gaylene Preston and Keri Hulme

1987, Subject - Television