Madeleine Sami
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.
As actor 35
Xena: Warrior Princess
1995
Lesbian Space Princess
2025
Aroha Bridge
2013
7 Days
2009
My Life Is Murder
2019
Have You Been Paying Attention?
2019
Taskmaster NZ
2020
Our Flag Means Death
2022
Deadloch
2023
What We Do in the Shadows
2014
Slow West
2015
Come to Daddy
2019
Educators
2019
Golden Boy
2019
Urzila
2026
The Bad Seed
2019
Anika Moa Unleashed
2018
Eagle vs Shark
2007
Double Parked
2023
Patriot Brains
2021
Radiradirah
2010
The Traitors NZ
2023
The Insider's Guide To Happiness
2004
The Great Kiwi Bake Off
2018
Baby Done
2020
Boy
2010
The Breaker Upperers
2018
Super City
2011
Under the Mountain
2009
The Jaquie Brown Diaries
2008
Sione's Wedding
2006
Perfect Strangers
2003
Teach You a Lesson
2000
Sione's 2: Unfinished Business
2012
(Time) Travel Centre
2016
