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