
Madeleine Sami
Department: Acting
Biography
Actor Madeleine Sami won international acclaim starring in two Toa Fraser plays: 1998's Bare and solo show No 2. Aged 18, she debuted on screen on Shortland Street and Pio. Following Insiders Guide to Happiness, she played Oscar Kightley's romantic interest in Sione's Wedding. Sami went on to win an NZ acting award for Super City, in which she created and played multiple characters. In 2018 comedy The Breaker Upperers hit cinemas; Sami co-wrote, co-directed and co-starred with Jackie van Beek.
Known For

Sione's Wedding
2006

Teach You a Lesson
2000

Perfect Strangers
2003

What We Do in the Shadows
2014

Slow West
2015

Under the Mountain
2009

Eagle vs Shark
2007

Boy
2010

The Breaker Upperers
2018

Come to Daddy
2019

Baby Done
2020

(Time) Travel Centre
2016

Lesbian Space Princess
2025

Sione's 2: Unfinished Business
2012

The Insider's Guide To Happiness
2004

Super City
2011

The Jaquie Brown Diaries
2008

Deadloch
2023

Double Parked
2023

My Life Is Murder
2019

Educators
2019

Our Flag Means Death
2022

The Bad Seed
2019

Anika Moa Unleashed
2018

7 Days
2009

Have You Been Paying Attention?
2019

7 Days
2009

The Jaquie Brown Diaries
2008

Radiradirah
2010

Patriot Brains
2021

Golden Boy
2019

The Great Kiwi Bake Off
2018

Taskmaster NZ
2020

Xena: Warrior Princess
1995

Aroha Bridge
2013