Madeleine Sami
Acting • Born 1980-05-10
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.
Filmography
35 credits
Sione's Wedding
Movie • 2006
Tania
Teach You a Lesson
Movie • 2000
Narrator
Perfect Strangers
Movie • 2003
Andrea
What We Do in the Shadows
Movie • 2014
Morana
Slow West
Movie • 2015
Marimacho
Under the Mountain
Movie • 2009
Constable Wood
Eagle vs Shark
Movie • 2007
Burger Girl Customer
Boy
Movie • 2010
Beat It Gang
The Breaker Upperers
Movie • 2018
Mel
Come to Daddy
Movie • 2019
Gladys
Baby Done
Movie • 2020
Hospital Midwife
(Time) Travel Centre
Movie • 2016
Donna
Lesbian Space Princess
Movie • 2025
Queen Anne (voice)
Sione's 2: Unfinished Business
Movie • 2012
Tania
The Insider's Guide To Happiness
TV • 2004
Super City
TV • 2011
The Jaquie Brown Diaries
TV • 2008
Deadloch
TV • 2023
Eddie Redcliffe
Double Parked
TV • 2023
Nat
My Life Is Murder
TV • 2019
Lena
Educators
TV • 2019
ERO Inspector #1
Our Flag Means Death
TV • 2022
Archie
The Bad Seed
TV • 2019
Detective Marie Da Silva
Anika Moa Unleashed
TV • 2018
Self
7 Days
TV • 2009
Team Leader
Have You Been Paying Attention?
TV • 2019
Panellist
7 Days
TV • 2009
Panelist
The Jaquie Brown Diaries
TV • 2008
Serita Singh
Radiradirah
TV • 2010
Various
Patriot Brains
TV • 2021
Contestant
Golden Boy
TV • 2019
Claire
The Great Kiwi Bake Off
TV • 2018
Self - Presenter
Taskmaster NZ
TV • 2020
Self
Xena: Warrior Princess
TV • 1995
Tyro
Aroha Bridge
TV • 2013
Mum Hook / Angeline Hook / Aunty Winny (voice)