Alison Raynor was a fictional character on the New Zealand

New Zealand

New Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses and numerous smaller islands. The country is situated some east of Australia across the Tasman Sea, and roughly south of the Pacific island nations of New Caledonia, Fiji, and Tonga...

 soap opera

Soap opera

A soap opera, sometimes called "soap" for short, is an ongoing, episodic work of dramatic fiction presented in serial format on radio or as television programming. The name soap opera stems from the original dramatic serials broadcast on radio that had soap manufacturers, such as Procter & Gamble,...

 Shortland Street

Shortland Street

Shortland Street is a New Zealand prime-time soap opera, first broadcast on Television New Zealand's TV2 on 25 May 1992. It is the country's longest-running drama and soap opera, being broadcast continuously for over 4500 episodes and 19 years, and is one of the most watched television programs in...

. She was portrayed by Danielle Cormack

Danielle Cormack

Danielle Cormack is a stage and screen actress from New Zealand. She was one of the original core cast of the long-running soap opera Shortland Street, though she is also known for her role as the Amazon Ephiny in the television series Xena: Warrior Princess, Cynthia Ross in The Cult, and Shota in...

 and was part of the series original cast.

Creation and Casting

Danielle Cormack

Danielle Cormack

Danielle Cormack is a stage and screen actress from New Zealand. She was one of the original core cast of the long-running soap opera Shortland Street, though she is also known for her role as the Amazon Ephiny in the television series Xena: Warrior Princess, Cynthia Ross in The Cult, and Shota in...

 was cast as the innocent farm girl Alison and at first she enjoyed the experience. However after a year Cormack was sick of the show and decided to leave. She became the first character to leave the show.

1992-1993

Alison is shown to be dating playboy doctor Dr. Chris Warner

Chris Warner

Dr. Christopher "Chris" Warner is a fictional character and current main protagonist on the New Zealand soap opera Shortland Street. He is portrayed by Michael Galvin. He is the only original character to still be on the show....

 (Michael Galvin

Michael Galvin

Michael Galvin is a New Zealand actor, singer and playwright, well known for his role as Dr. Chris Warner on the soap opera Shortland Street, a character he has played almost continuously since the shows debut in 1992.-Early life:...

) upon the series debut in 1992, much to the disapproval of friends Steve (Andrew Binns) and Sam

Sam Aleni

Sam Aleni was a fictional character on the TVNZ soap opera Shortland Street. He was portrayed by Rene Naufahu and was part of the original cast.-1992-1993:...

 (Rene Naufahu). She begins to flat with the two, a fact she must keep hidden from her disproving parents. Steve breaks the news to Alison that Chris cheated on her and they break up, only to reconcile and get engaged. However on the night before the wedding, Chris breaks it to Alison he is calling it off to reconcile with his ex wife Melanie Kirk (Tina Regtien). A devastated Alison has brief romantic tensions with both Steve and Chris' brother Guy

Guy Warner

Guy Warner is a fictional character in the long running New Zealand soap opera Shortland Street. He was portrayed by Craig Parker in a guest role in 1992 before returning as core cast from 1993 to 1996...

 (Craig Parker

Craig Parker

Craig Parker is a New Zealand actor who was based in the United Kingdom for some time, but now resides in New Zealand. His grandfather moved from Edinburgh, Scotland to Fiji when he was stationed during his years of service in the British Army...

), before realizing she is pregnant with Chris' child as the year ends.

In 1993, Alison suffers a miscarriage and grows close to villainous Darryl Neilson

Darryl Neilson

Darryl Neilson is a fictional character on the New Zealand soap opera Shortland Street. Darryl was portrayed by Mark Ferguson from 1992 to the characters death in 1995....

 (Mark Ferguson

Mark Ferguson

Mark Ferguson is a New Zealand-based Australian actor and television presenter.-Biography:Ferguson was born in Sydney, Australia, in family of Scottish ancestry . He attended the National Institute of Dramatic Art and graduated in 1981...

). However Darryl's menacing and manipulative ways wedge Alison closer to recently divorced ex Chris. The two get engaged once again, but a jealous Darryl drugs Chris and locks him in a barn, causing him to miss the wedding. A devastated Alison assumes Chris has cheated on her and leaves the country in May 1993. Jaki Manu

Jaki Manu

Jaki Manu was a fictional character on the New Zealand soap opera Shortland Street. She was portrayed by Nancy Brunning and was part of the original cast.-1992-1994:...

 (Nancy Brunning

Nancy Brunning

Nancy Brunning is an actress and director who has won awards in film and television and has made a major contribution to the growth of Māori in the arts. Her accolades include Best Actress awards on stage and screen. She won Best Actress at the NZ Film Awards for her lead role in the movie What...

) later attends the Alison's wedding to a man named Jean-Luc in France.

Alison returns in December 1993 seeking help from Chris and Michael McKenna

Michael McKenna

Dr. Michael McKenna is a fictional character on the New Zealand soap opera, Shortland Street. He was portrayed by Paul Gittins and was part of the original cast.-Creation and Casting:...

 (Paul Gittins

Paul Gittins

Paul Gittins is a New Zealand actor who is best known for playing Doctor Michael McKenna in Shortland Street from 1992 to 1995 and 1998 to 1999, and he has also appeared in The End of the Golden Weather, Xena: Warrior Princess, Hercules: The Legendary Journeys, City Life, The Whole of the Moon and...

). It turns out her husband Jean-Luc (Pierre Foret) is abusive and a terrorist. She asks Michael for plastic surgery so Jean-Luc will not recognise her, but unfortunately Jean-Luc tracks her down and the two have a showdown on the Raynor family farm. Jean-Luc falls to his death and Darryl helps Alison clean up the crime before she leaves once again.

After departure

Chris leaves Shortland Street in 1996 and travels to America. It is revealed that he found Alison and they solved their issues and married. In 2000 it is revealed that Chris was caught cheating on Alison with his PA and the two divorced. In 2010 it was revealed that Alison was pregnant without Chris' knowledge and she gave birth to a baby she named Phoenix Raynor (Geordie Holibar) in mid 1996.

Sometime between 1996 and 2009, Alison and Phoenix move to Southland

Southland Region

Southland is New Zealand's southernmost region and is also a district within that region. It consists mainly of the southwestern portion of the South Island and Stewart Island / Rakiura...

to live with Alison's uncle Brian. Unfortunately, Alison drowns when she falls overboard from a yacht in 2009.