Madeleine Sami

Madeleine Sami
Born Madeleine Nalini Sami
Auckland, New Zealand
Occupation Actress

Madeleine Nalini Sami is a New Zealand actress, comedian and musician.

Madeleine was raised in the Onehunga suburb of Auckland, New Zealand; and attended Onehunga High School. She is of Irish and Fiji Indian heritage. Madeleine starred in the long running New Zealand soap Shortland Street from 1998 to 1999, and more recently in the comedy film Sione's Wedding. She is an accomplished theatre actress and toured internationally with the shows BARE and No2 for which she won two Chapman Tripp awards and an Edinburgh fringe first award. She has since featured in various New Zealand television shows including Outrageous Fortune, The Jaquie Brown Diaries, 7 Days and the Jane Campion series, Top of the Lake.

She has also formed a pop band called The Sami Sisters together with two of her siblings, Anji and Priya Sami and on 1 August 2011 they released their debut album entitled Happy Heartbreak! which charted at number 9 in the New Zealand album charts.

In 2011 Madeleine starred in her own comedy series, Super City, directed by Taika Waititi.[1] She won Best Performance by an Actress at the 2011 AFTA awards for this role.[2] She also won, with co-writer Thomas Sainsbury, Best Comedy Script at the 2011 SWANZ awards for Episode 3 of the series.

In January 2015, Sami married Pip Brown, also known as the singer-songwriter Ladyhawke.[3]

Filmography

Year Title Role Notes
1998 Pio! Various TV series
1998 – 99 Shortland Street Dr. Shivani Naran TV series
2000 Ice As: Ice House Various
2000 Fish Skin Suit Libby TV movie
2000 Teach You a Lesson Narrator Short film
2001 Xena: Warrior Princess Tyro Episode: "To Helicon and Back"
2003 Perfect Strangers Andrea
2004 Talent Chemist Episode: "Pilot"
2004 Insiders Guide to Happiness, TheThe Insiders Guide to Happiness Tess Episode: "Is Happiness an Accident?"
2006 Sione's Wedding Tania
2006 – 07 Bro'Town Bianca / Additional Voices 5 episodes
2007 Eagle vs Shark Burger Girl Customer
2007 Rude Awakenings Francesca Hoyle TV series
2007 Outrageous Fortune Linda Episode: "No Noble Rite"
2008 – 09 Jaquie Brown Diaries, TheThe Jaquie Brown Diaries Serita Singh 13 episodes
2009 Buzzy Bee and Friends Buzzy Bee (voice) 14 episodes
2009 Diplomatic Immunity Agent Amy Bickler Episode: "Spy in the House of Love"
2009 Under the Mountain Constable Green
2009 – present Seven Days Herself Recurring Guest Role
2010 Radiradirah Various 8 episodes
2011 Super City Pasha / Georgie / Azeem / Linda / Jo TV series
2012 "Sione's 2: Unfinished Business Tania
2013 Top of the Lake Zena TV series
2013 Super City II Mary / Ofa / Ray / Levi TV series
2015 Slow West Marimacho
Theatre
Year Title Role Theatre
1998 Three People in a Cinema Various Silo Theatre
1999 Legacy Ensemble Aotearoa Young People's Theatre
2000 No. 2 Various Edinburgh Festival
2001 No. 2 Various NZ Tour
2001 Bare Various Wellington Fringe Festival
2002 Vagina Monologues, TheThe Vagina Monologues Various Auckland Theatre Company
2005 Bad Jelly the Witch Bad Jelly Silo Theatre
2006 Bad Jelly the Witch Bad Jelly Silo Theatre
2007 Some Girl(s) Tyler Silo Theatre
2008 Rabbit Emily Silo Theatre
2008 Whero's New Net Various Massive Company
2008 Spelling Bee Logainne Schwartzandgrubenierre Auckland Theatre Company
2009 No. 2 Various Silo Theatre
2010 Dance Troupe Supreme Kellyanna Maidment Theatre

References

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