Personal info
Known for
Actor
Gender
Female
Birthday
10 May
Location
Auckland Region, New Zealand
Edit pageMadeleine Sami
Biography
Madeleine Nalini Sami is a New Zealand actor, director, comedian, and musician. She started her acting career in theatre before moving to television, where she created, co-wrote, and starred in Super City.
She co-wrote, co-directed, and starred in the 2018 film The Breaker Upperers, along with Jackie van Beek, which was a New Zealand box office success. Sami co-hosted The Great Kiwi Bake Off.
Sami is a part of The Sami Sisters, a musical group consisting of herself and her two sisters. They released an album Happy Heartbreak in 2011.
She co-wrote, co-directed, and starred in the 2018 film The Breaker Upperers, along with Jackie van Beek. The film received positive reviews and was a box office hit in New Zealand, becoming the best-selling New Zealand film of 2018 and is one of the top 20 grossing New Zealand films ever.
The pair will reunite to direct the Netflix film Hope, starring Aubrey Plaza. Sami also appeared in the 2019 film, Come to Daddy, directed by Ant Timpson.
On May 17, 2021, Sami appeared on The Masked Singer NZ as the "Monarch (Butterfly)", getting eliminated in the fourth episode. The same year she was on the panel show Patriot Brains.
Sami starred in the 2023 television series Deadloch.
