Madeleine Sami
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
The Insider's Guide To Happiness
2004 · 9.0
Golden Boy
2019 · 7.6
What We Do in the Shadows
2014 · 7.5
Xena: Warrior Princess
1995 · 7.5
Our Flag Means Death
2022 · 7.5
Have You Been Paying Attention?
2019 · 7.5
Boy
2010 · 7.3
My Life Is Murder
2019 · 7.2
7 Days
2009 · 7.0
Slow West
2015 · 6.7
Deadloch
2023 · 6.6
Eagle vs Shark
2007 · 6.4
Baby Done
2020 · 6.3
Sione's Wedding
2006 · 6.2
Educators
2019 · 6.0
Urzila
2026 · 6.0
The Jaquie Brown Diaries
2008 · 6.0
Come to Daddy
2019 · 5.9
Sione's 2: Unfinished Business
2012 · 5.6
The Breaker Upperers
2018 · 5.2
Patriot Brains
2021 · 5.0
Perfect Strangers
2003 · 4.6
Under the Mountain
2009 · 4.5
Double Parked
2023 · 4.0
Lesbian Space Princess
2025 · 3.8
The Bad Seed
2019 · 3.8
Aroha Bridge
2013 · 0.0
Super City
2011 · 0.0
Teach You a Lesson
2000 · 0.0
(Time) Travel Centre
2016 · 0.0
Radiradirah
2010 · 0.0