Madeleine Sami Kinder – New Zealand actress, director and comedian/musician, Madeleine Nalini Sami was born on May 10, 1980 in Auckland, New Zealand.
Sami was born to Christine Southee and Naren Sami. She has three siblings; Priya, Anji and another whose name is currently unknown.
Sami’s parents separated when she was 11. She attended Onehunga High School.
The journey of Madeleine Sami
Sami rose to fame starring in Toa Fraser’s play Bare and won the Chapman Tripp Theater Award for Best Actress in 1999.
Fraser’s next play, No. 2, in which she later appeared, won the Perrier Comedy Award at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.
Sami created, directed and starred in his own comedy series “Super City” in 2011. Taika Waititi was the director of the series.
Sami won Best Female Performance at the 2011 AFTA Awards while portraying five different roles on the series. She went on to co-host The Great Kiwi Bake Off and appeared on television in The Bad Seed and Golden Boy.
To mark her television directorial debut, she directed an episode of the second season of Funny Girls. She then directed eleven episodes of the series.
Sami and her two sisters form the musical ensemble The Sami Sisters. In 2011, they released the album Happy Heartbreak.
With Jackie van Beek, she co-wrote, co-directed and starred in the 2018 film The Breaker Upperers.
After receiving positive reviews and becoming a box office success, it became the best-selling New Zealand film of 2018 and one of the 20 highest-grossing films in New Zealand history.
The duo will reunite for the Netflix film Hope starring Aubrey Plaza. Sami also made an appearance in the Ant Timpson-directed 2019 film Come to Daddy.
Sami appeared on The Masked Singer NZ as “Monarch (Butterfly)” on May 17, 2021 and was eliminated in the fourth episode. The same year, she appeared in Patriot Brains.
Does Madeleine Sami have children?
Madeleine Sami and her ex-partner Pip Brown have a daughter, born October 20, 2017.