Mmoloki Chrystie

{{Short description|English actor}}

{{Use British English|date=January 2012}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=November 2020}}

Mmoloki Chrystie is an English actor, perhaps best recognised for playing the football-crazed, not-too-bright Frazer "Frazz" Davis in the BAFTA award-winning Central Television / Children's ITV comedy-drama Press Gang.{{cite book |last1=Cornell |first1=Paul |title=The Guinness Book of Classic British TV |last2=Day |first2=Martin |last3=Topping |first3=Keith |publisher=Jim Pattison Group |year=1996 |isbn=9780851126289 |page=206 |chapter=Press Gang}} Prior to that, Chrystie had played Kevin Baylon in another children's favourite, Grange Hill, from 1984 to 1987.{{cite book |last1=McGown |first1=Alistair D. |last2=Docherty |first2=Mark J. |title=The Hill and Beyond: Children's Television Drama - An Encyclopedia |publisher=British Film Institute |year=2003 |isbn=9780851708782 |page=117 |chapter=Grange Hill}} Kevin was best friend of 'Zammo' McGuire (Lee MacDonald), and so featured heavily in the infamous Zammo "Just Say No" drugs storyline and campaign.{{cite book |last=Bromley |first=Tom |title=We Could Have Been the Wombles: The Weird and Wonderful World of One-Hit Wonders |publisher=Penguin Books |year=2006 |isbn=9780141017112 |page=133}}

After Press Gang ended in 1993, Chrystie left acting, but was still involved in the business, working as an assistant director on a small-budget film called Rage, and later setting up his own production company. He wrote and directed the 2000 short film Underbelly.{{cite book |last=McCluskey |first=Audrey Thomas |title=Frame by Frame III: A Filmography of the African Diasporan Image, 1994-2004 |publisher=Indiana University Press |year=2007 |isbn=9780253348296 |pages=759–760}} In 2003, Chrystie was one of a number of former Grange Hill cast members approached by presenter Justin Lee Collins to appear in Bring Back..., a Channel 4 programme designed to re-unite cast members to perform the Just Say No single.{{cite news |last=McIver |first=Brian |date=May 10, 2005 |title=Grange Hill Reunited; Nineteen years on from the Just Say No campaign Zammo, Ziggy and the rest of the cast get back together for a Channel 4 special. |work=Daily Record}} Chrystie was one of the few people who declined to take part, but, as part of his production company, submitted his own produced short film to the programme about the campaign's trip to America to meet Nancy Reagan.