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New Zealand-Australian television series

A Remarkable Place to Die is a New Zealand-Australian crime drama series created by Philly de Lacey and written by Lacey and John Banas. It follows Detective Anais Mallory (Chelsie Preston Crayford) on the homicide beat in Queenstown and as she also uncovers more about her sister's mysterious death.

It was first broadcast in 2024 on TVNZ 1 in New Zealand and on the Nine Network in Australia.

Plot summary

Anais Mallory (Preston Crayford) leaves behind her high-flying career as a homicide detective in Sydney to return to her hometown of Queenstown in the South Island of New Zealand. She is reunited with her grief-stricken mother, Veronica (Gibney), following the mysterious road accident death of Anais' sister, Lynne. As Anais works through new cases with Detective Delaney (Whelan) as a local detective she also begins to unravel more of the mysteries surrounding her sister's death. She is also forced to confront her former fiancé, Luke (Terrier), now married to her former best friend, Maja (Evans).

Cast

Recurring

Guest cast

• Nathalie Boltt as Marijke Van Heusen, a wealthy expat from South Africa
• Mike Edward as Stus van Huysen, Marijke's wealthy husband, also from South Africa

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Chelsie Preston Crayford

Chelsie Florence Preston Crayford (born 1987) is a New Zealand actress. She portrayed Josephine in the film What We Do in the Shadows.

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• Preston Crayford was mistakenly credited as "Chelsie Preston-Crayford".

New Zealand actress

This British surname is barrelled, being made up of multiple names. It should be written as Preston Crayford, not Crayford.

Chelsie Florence Preston Crayford (born 1987), sometimes credited as Chelsie Florence, is a New Zealand actress.

Early life

Preston Crayford was born in Wellington to film maker Gaylene Preston and musician Jonathan Crayford. Apart from appearing in a water safety commercial at the age of four, her acting debut was at the age of 13 in the New Zealand-made TV series A Twist in the Tale starring William Shatner. Several years later, her performance in a stage production was praised by Ian McKellen, encouraging her to pursue an acting career and enrol in the Toi Whakaari national drama school from 2006 to 2008. She graduated in 2008 with a Bachelor of Performing Arts.

Career

Preston Crayford played a guest role in the soap opera Shortland Street in 2003, and made her feature film debut in the comedy Eagle vs Shark in 2007. In 2009, she played a major role in the TV series The Cult. In 2011, she played brothel madam Tilly Devine in the Australian crime drama Underbelly: Razor, a role for which she won the Graham Kennedy Award for Most Outstanding Newcomer at the 2012 Logie Awards.

Since then she has appeared in an ABC TV adaptation of The Mystery of a Hansom Cab, in Hope and Wire (a mini-series produced by her mother about the 2010 Canterbury earthquake), government communications advisor Sophie Walsh in the Australian techno-thriller The Code, and as the Sorceress Kaya in the third season of Ash vs Evil Dead.

She portrayed suffragette Annabella Maktelow (1871–1963) in Hot Words and Bold Retorts (2018), a short film directed by her mother Gaylene Preston. She wrote, directed, and starred in the short film Falling Up (2018).

Preston Crayford also starred as Melissa