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Madeleine Sami
Actor, Director, Writer, Producer, Additional CreditsBorn May 10, 1980 (45 years)
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
| 2025 | Badjelly (TV Series) · as Terry |
| 2024 | |
| 2023 | Double Parked (TV Series) · as Nat |
| 2023 | Deadloch (TV Series) · as Eddie Redcliffe |
| 2022 | Our Flag Means Death (TV Series) · as Archie |
| 2022 | Patriot Brains (TV Series) · as Contestant |
| 2020 | |
| 2019 | Have You Been Paying Attention? (NZ) (TV Series) · as Panellist |
| 2019 | My Life Is Murder (TV Series) · as Lena |
| 2019 | Golden Boy (2019) (TV Series) · as Claire |
| 2019 | Educators (TV Series) · as Ero Inspector #1 |
| 2019 | Come to Daddy · as Gladys |
| 2018 | The Bad Seed (TV Series) · as Detective Marie Da Silva |
| 2018 | The Breaker Upperers · as Mel |
| 2017 | Get Krack!n (TV Series) · as Amy Bryan |
| 2015 | Slow West · as Marimacho |
| 2014 | What We Do in the Shadows · as Morana |
| 2013 | Top of the Lake (TV Series) · as Zena |
| 2012 | Sione's 2: Unfinished Business · as Tania |
| 2011 | Super City (TV Series) |
| 2010 | Radiradirah (TV Series) · as Various |
| 2010 | Boy · as Beat It Gang |
| 2009 | Under the Mountain · as Constable Wood |
| 2009 | Buzzy Bee & Friends (TV Series) · as Buzzy Bee |
| 2009 | 7 Days (2009) (TV Series) · as Panelist |
| 2009 | Diplomatic Immunity (TV Series) · as Agent Amy Bickler |
| 2008 | The Jaquie Brown Diaries (TV Series) · as Serita Singh |
| 2007 | Eagle vs Shark · as Burger Girl Customer |
| 2007 | Here to stay (TV Series) |
| 2007 | Rude Awakenings (TV Series) · as Francesca Hoyle |
| 2006 | Samoan Wedding · as Tania |
| 2005 | Outrageous Fortune (TV Series) · as Linda |
| 2004 | Bro'Town (TV Series) · as Additional Voices |
| 2004 | The Insiders Guide to Happiness (TV Series) |
| 2003 | Perfect Strangers · as Andrea |
| 1995 | Xena: Warrior Princess (TV Series) · as Tyro |
| 1992 | Shortland Street (TV Series) · as Dr. Shivani 'vani' Naran |