Kiwi acting veteran Madeleine Sami's career is running hotter than ever.

The second season of her local comedy series, Double Parked, has just started airing on Three - and she's due to head to Darwin to start filming the latest season of her Logie-nominated series Deadloch.

Sami says she enjoys taking advantage of all these new opportunities.

"The pandemic was really good for that - sitting back and having a bit of time out to be like: How do I want to lead my life... and it taught me how to narrow things down."

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