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Madeleine Sami is a Actor, Director and Writer Néo-Zélandaise born on 10 may 1980 at Auckland (Nouvelle zelande)

Madeleine Sami

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Birth name Madeleine Nalini Sami
Nationality Nouvelle zelande
Birth 10 may 1980 (43 years) at Auckland (Nouvelle zelande)

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. She won Best Performance by an Actress at the 2011 AFTA awards for this role. 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.

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Filmography of Madeleine Sami (9 films)

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Actress

The Breaker Upperers, 1h30
Directed by Madeleine Sami
Origin Nouvelle zelande
Genres Comedy
Actors Madeleine Sami, James Rolleston, Jemaine Clement, Lucy Lawless, Oscar Kightley, Andrew Grainger
Roles Mel
Rating58% 2.9404552.9404552.9404552.9404552.940455
Jen et Mel, deux amies de longue date, sont les gérantes d'une entreprise qui met fin à n'importe quelle relation amoureuse mais les choses dérapent lorsque l'une d'elles se retrouve émotionnellement impliquée.
Slow West
Slow West (2015)
, 1h24
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Romance, Western
Actors Michael Fassbender, Kodi Smit-McPhee, Ben Mendelsohn, Jeffrey Thomas, Caren Pistorius, Brooke Williams
Roles Marimacho
Rating68% 3.4477353.4477353.4477353.4477353.447735
Jay Cavendish (Kodi Smit-McPhee), a highland born Scottish boy, travels to the United States to search for his love, Rose Ross (Caren Pistorius). He runs into a group of men who chase and attempt to kill a Native American. Jay is briefly interrogated by the men until a bounty hunter Silas Selleck (Michael Fassbender) arrives and kills the leader. Soon after, Jay pays the bounty hunter for protection as he searches for Rose, to which Silas agrees.
What We Do in the Shadows, 1h25
Directed by Taika Waititi, Jemaine Clement
Origin Nouvelle zelande
Genres Comedy, Horror comedy, Horror
Themes Films about animals, Films about magic and magicians, Medical-themed films, Seafaring films, Transport films, Wolves in film, Werewolves in film, Vampires in film, Zombie films, Films about viral outbreaks, Comedy horror films, Mise en scène d'un mammifère, Disaster films
Actors Taika Waititi, Jemaine Clement, Rhys Darby, Jason Hoyte, Madeleine Sami, Duncan Sarkies
Roles Morana
Rating75% 3.799743.799743.799743.799743.79974
Four vampires - Viago, Vladislav, Deacon, and Petyr - share a flat in the Wellington suburb of Te Aro. Although Viago, Vladislav, and Deacon are all several centuries old, they have retained normal human appearances, but the 8,000-year-old Petyr resembles Count Orlok and acts more savagely than the younger vampires. Each night, Viago, Vladislav, and Deacon prowl the streets of Wellington searching for people to kill, but they must stay in the flat during the day to avoid sunlight—which is lethal to vampires—therefore they have not adapted to 21st-century life. Deacon has a human servant (familiar)—Jackie—who runs errands for the vampires, but she is frustrated that Deacon will not turn her into a vampire. Jackie leads her ex-boyfriend Nick to the vampire's flat so they can drink his blood: he escapes before they can kill him, but as he leaves the flat, Petyr attacks him and later turns Nick into a vampire.
Sione's 2: Unfinished Business, 1h32
Origin Nouvelle zelande
Genres Comedy
Actors Oscar Kightley, Shimpal Lelisi, Robbie Magasiva, David Fane, Madeleine Sami, Gwendoline Taylor
Roles Tania
Rating55% 2.762992.762992.762992.762992.76299
Albert (Oscar Kightley) and Tania (Madeleine Sami) are now happily married, but can't quite seal the deal with a baby. While Sefa (Shimpal Lelisi) and Leilani (Teuila Blakely) have got two kids, they aren't married despite Sefa's proposal. Stanley (Iaheto Ah Hi) is now a trainee Deacon in the Future Church, Michael (Robbie Magasiva) has moved to Australia, and Bolo (Dave Fane) ditched his job with Sefa’s failing business to work for Sione (Pua Magasiva). As adulthood drives them apart, a crisis brings them back together: when Bolo disappears, the Minister (Nathaniel Lees) gathers up the boys to find him, somewhere, in the world’s largest Polynesian city.
Boy
Boy (2010)
, 1h28
Directed by Taika Waititi
Origin Nouvelle zelande
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romance
Themes Films about children, Seafaring films, Transport films
Actors Taika Waititi, James Rolleston, Craig Hall, Pana Hema Taylor, Rachel House, Madeleine Sami
Roles Beat It Gang
Rating74% 3.7489153.7489153.7489153.7489153.748915
The year is 1984. Alamein/"Boy" is an 11-year-old boy who lives in Waihau Bay, in the Bay of Plenty region of New Zealand, on a small farm with his grandmother, little brother Rocky, and several other cousins. Boy spends his time dreaming of Michael Jackson and his estranged father, Alamein, who has since left him and Rocky. Boy continually creates stories about his father such as him escaping prison and taking him to see Michael Jackson live. Even though Boy continues to believe this, his classmates never believe him anyway, which starts a fight between him and another classmate, Kingi, and his older brother Holden. When Boy's grandmother leaves for a funeral one day, she leaves Boy in charge of the house and his brother and cousins; Boy is then surprised to see his father and two other men arrive at the farm.
Under the Mountain
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Fantasy, Action, Adventure
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films
Actors Sam Neill, Oliver Driver, Bruce Hopkins, Nathaniel Lees, Madeleine Sami, David Weatherley
Roles Constable Wood
Rating48% 2.401392.401392.401392.401392.40139
Teenage twins Rachel and Theo travel to Auckland to stay with relatives following the sudden death of their mother. Where there was once a psychic bond between them, now there is a rift as Theo, particularly, refuses to confront his grief. Rachel reaches out to him, but is rebuffed.
Eagle vs Shark, 1h28
Directed by Taika Waititi
Origin Nouvelle zelande
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films
Actors Jemaine Clement, Loren Horsley, Craig Hall, Rachel House, David Fane, Taika Waititi
Roles Burger Girl Customer
Rating66% 3.348783.348783.348783.348783.34878
Lily (Loren Horsley), a shy, wistful girl, is a songwriter when no one is listening. She works as a cashier at a fast food restaurant and has a crush from afar on Jarrod (Jemaine Clement), a geek who works in a video game store. Jarrod is more interested in Lily's workmate, Jenny (Chelsie Preston Crayford). With Jenny not at work one day, Jarrod gives Lily an invitation to his "dress as your favourite animal" party to pass along to her, but Jenny crumples it up and throws it away upon receiving it. Lily retrieves it from the rubbish.
Sione's Wedding, 1h37
Origin Nouvelle zelande
Genres Comedy, Romance
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films
Actors Oscar Kightley, Shimpal Lelisi, Robbie Magasiva, Pua Magasiva, Madeleine Sami, Nathaniel Lees
Roles Tania
Rating62% 3.1479753.1479753.1479753.1479753.147975
Set in Auckland, New Zealand the film centres around four Samoan boys: ladies' man Michael, party boy Sefa, good boy Albert, and weird Stanley, who although they are in their mid 20s to early 30s have a reputation for behaving immaturely at special occasions such as family weddings. After four particular incidents (Michael having sex with one of the bridesmaids in the wedding limousine; Albert dropping the bride while she was hoisted up on his shoulder; Sefa getting drunk and passing out while going through the wedding cake and the table; and Stanley setting a reception hall on fire), the local minister of their Samoan church rules that the four are to be banned from the wedding of Michael's brother, Sione.

Director

The Breaker Upperers, 1h30
Directed by Madeleine Sami
Origin Nouvelle zelande
Genres Comedy
Actors Madeleine Sami, James Rolleston, Jemaine Clement, Lucy Lawless, Oscar Kightley, Andrew Grainger
Rating58% 2.9404552.9404552.9404552.9404552.940455
Jen et Mel, deux amies de longue date, sont les gérantes d'une entreprise qui met fin à n'importe quelle relation amoureuse mais les choses dérapent lorsque l'une d'elles se retrouve émotionnellement impliquée.

Scriptwriter

The Breaker Upperers, 1h30
Directed by Madeleine Sami
Origin Nouvelle zelande
Genres Comedy
Actors Madeleine Sami, James Rolleston, Jemaine Clement, Lucy Lawless, Oscar Kightley, Andrew Grainger
Roles Writer
Rating58% 2.9404552.9404552.9404552.9404552.940455
Jen et Mel, deux amies de longue date, sont les gérantes d'une entreprise qui met fin à n'importe quelle relation amoureuse mais les choses dérapent lorsque l'une d'elles se retrouve émotionnellement impliquée.