Madeleine Sami

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 of Madeleine Sami

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