Madeleine Sami

Personal context

Summary

Madeleine Sami is a New Zealand actor, writer, director and comedian known for Super City, The Breaker Upperers, Double Parked and Deadloch. Her comedy often plays with gender expectations, female desire, motherhood, race and queer relationships. Sami has described herself as a brown, queer woman and spoken about limited industry pathways for people with backgrounds like hers; she has also said diversity was intentional in The Breaker Upperers’ casting and encouraged brown queer creatives to keep telling their stories. No public record of party campaigning, political donations or formal activist affiliations is on record.