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Nina Oyama
Acting

Nina Oyama
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1993-08-18,Bathurst, New South Wales, Australia
Gender
Female
Biography
Oyama began performing stand-up comedy at 17 years old. In 2012, she was a state finalist in the Class Clowns competition. That year she also performed at The Sydney Fringe as part of "Barely Legal - Australia's Best Young Comedians" alongside Neel Kolhatkar and Aaron Chen, and performed on Dan Ilic's FBi Radio show. Oyama became a writer for the children's sketch comedy show You're Skitting Me, and made her television debut performing stand-up comedy on SBS 2 in 2014. In 2017, Oyama was cast as executive assistant/receptionist Courtney Kano in the third, fourth, and fifth seasons of Utopia. In the same year, she joined the cast of ABC Comedy's topical entertainment show Tonightly with Tom Ballard as a writer; she also starred in the second and final series of the show in 2018. Oyama directed, co-wrote, and co-starred in The Angus Project, a web series and television pilot that aired on ABC iview in 2018. Based on real events in Bathurst, the series co-stars Angus Thompson as a sports journalist with cerebral palsy, for whom Oyama becomes a friend and caregiver. The show received praise for its earnest depictions of disability and regional Australia. As of 2019 Oyama was regularly performing stand-up comedy. In 2020, she starred on the Network 10 sketch comedy series Kinne Tonight, and served as a scriptwriter for Michael Cusack's Adult Swim series YOLO: Crystal Fantasy. She co-directed the film Diving In, which starred an amputee swimmer and was featured in the 2020 Sydney Film Festival. Also in that year, Oyama received media attention for making "#CatPoop" a trending topic on Twitter in Australia. On 9 July 2024, Deadloch was renewed for a second season and it was announced that Oyama would reprise the role of Abby Matsuda. On 28 October, Oyama was named for the animated film The Pout Pout Fish. On 4 June 2025, Oyama was announced as part of the cast for the series Gnomes.

Filmography

Big Backyard Quiz

0

Big Backyard Quiz
2024-07-13

The Pout-Pout Fish

5.8

The Pout-Pout Fish
2026-01-01

Haven't You Heard? Everyone Hates Me.

0

Haven't You Heard? Everyone Hates Me.

0

Soulless
2022-11-12

The Weekly with Charlie Pickering

4.7

The Weekly with Charlie Pickering
2015-04-22

6.4

Deadloch
2023-06-01

Question Everything

5

Question Everything
2021-08-18

6.9

Taskmaster
2023-02-02

6.312

Home and Away
1988-01-18

Have You Been Paying Attention?

8.5

Have You Been Paying Attention?
2013-11-03

The Cheap Seats

7.6

The Cheap Seats
2021-07-20

7

Utopia
2014-08-13

Would I Lie to You?

3.2

Would I Lie to You?
2022-02-28

Guy Montgomery's Guy Mont Spelling Bee

8.6

Guy Montgomery's Guy Mont Spelling Bee
2023-02-16

Shaun Micallef's Origin Odyssey

0

Shaun Micallef's Origin Odyssey
2024-09-24

Thank God You're Here

6

Thank God You're Here
2006-04-05

Claire Hooper's House of Games

1

Claire Hooper's House of Games
2025-04-21

A Bite to Eat with Alice

0

A Bite to Eat with Alice
2024-10-28

Guy Montgomery's Guy Mont Spelling Bee

8.4

Guy Montgomery's Guy Mont Spelling Bee
2024-08-14

Big Backyard Quiz

6

Big Backyard Quiz
2024-07-13

Spicks and Specks

7.318

Spicks and Specks
2005-01-31

7.273

Sunny Nights
2025-12-26