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

• Urzila
• 2025Lesbian Space Princess — Queen Anne (voice)
• Deadloch — Eddie Redcliffe, Writer
• Double Parked — Nat, Director
• Our Flag Means Death — Archie
• Raised by Refugees — Director
• Patriot Brains — Contestant
• 2020Baby Done — Hospital Midwife
• 2019Come to Daddy — Gladys
• Educators — ERO Inspector #1
• Golden Boy — Claire
• Have You Been Paying Attention? — Panellist
• My Life Is Murder — Lena
• The Bad Seed — Detective Marie Da Silva
• 2018The Breaker Upperers — Mel, Director, Writer
• 2016(Time) Travel Centre — Donna
• Funny Girls — Director
• 2015Slow West — Marimacho
• 2014What We Do in the Shadows — Morana
• Aroha Bridge — Mum Hook / Angeline Hook / Aunty Winny (voice), Writer
• 2012Sione's 2: Unfinished Business — Tania
• Super City
• 2010Boy — Beat It Gang
• Radiradirah — Various
• 7 Days — Team Leader, Panelist
• 2009Under the Mountain — Constable Wood
• The Jaquie Brown Diaries — Serita Singh
• 2007Eagle vs Shark — Burger Girl Customer
• 2006Sione's Wedding — Tania
• The Insider's Guide To Happiness
• 2003Perfect Strangers — Andrea
• 2000Teach You a Lesson — Narrator
• Xena: Warrior Princess — Tyro
• Hope — Director

Appearances as themselves (5)

• Guy Montgomery's Guy Mont Spelling Bee — Self
• The Traitors NZ — Self - Host
• Taskmaster NZ — Self
• Anika Moa Unleashed — Self
• The Great Kiwi Bake Off — Self - Presenter