Actor/musician Madeleine Sami won international acclaim starring in two Toa Fraser plays: 1998's Bare and solo show No 2. Aged 18, she debuted on screen on Shortland Street and Pio. Following Insiders Guide to Happiness she was award-nominated for her "nice girl" role in 2006's Sione's Wedding. Sami has appeared in acclaimed TV-movie Fish Skin Suit, and was the object of Jaquie's envy in The Jaquie Brown Diaries.
I had lines like ‘They've got catapults!’ or ‘There's a shark!' or ‘We're all gonna die!' I'm barely in it. But I don't die. I'm one of the only Amazonians that doesn't die.
– Madeleine Sami on acting in Xena: Warrior Princess