Outrageous Fortune star's home invaded

Photo: LUKE PARKER

BURGLED: Tammy Davis and partner Ainsley Gardiner had both their laptops with important documents stolen from their house.

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Even TV stars get burgled.

Tammy Davis, who plays Munter in the hit series Outrageous Fortune, and partner Ainsley Gardiner got home last Saturday to find someone had broken in.

Two laptop computers were among items missing from their Avondale house.

Ainsley is a film producer and had all the important documents and paperwork associated with her latest film Boy on her laptop.

"We just found out last week that the feature-length film has been accepted into the Sundance Film Festival this January," she says.

"It's one of 15 films out of more than a thousand submitted from around the world. All the paperwork required to finish it is now missing.

"This is not going to stop us but it is going to make it difficult."

Ainsley will travel to the festival in Utah in January.

The 36-year-old has been a film producer in New Zealand for 13 years and produced the 2006 movie Eagle Vs Shark starring Flight of the Conchord's Jemaine Clement.

She says it's lucky the film wasn't stolen in the robbery.

"I had backed everything up on a USB stick that was stuck in the back of the laptop, but that was taken too," she says.

Also on the stolen computer is four years worth of family photos.

Tammy, who has three daughters with his partner, got his laptop for Father's Day in September and is distressed by the ordeal.

"I feel really invaded. It took a while for it to sink in because I didn't want to believe that people would randomly smash and grab whatever they could in such a short space of time," he says. "It was pretty upsetting."

The 34-year-old says the alarm was set and the offenders tried getting in a couple of different ways before smashing a window.

The couple is offering a reward for information leading to the return of the laptops with no questions asked.

"The main purpose is to see if there is any possibility of getting Ainsley's computer back with all the stuff on it," Tammy says.

Boy will be released in March and was inspired by kiwi director Taika Waititi's Oscar nominated short-film Two Cars, One Night.

Call Ainsley on 021-451-456 if you have information.

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