Nina Oyama
Birthday: Born in 1993-08-18 in Bathurst, New South Wales, Australia
Deathday: Alive
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.
TV Credits
The Weekly with Charlie Pickering
Character: Herself - Correspondent
News comedy show, tonight show and chat show all in one, allowing Charlie to return to his comedy roots while being a general nuisance to newsmakers, politicians and other charlatans....
Deadloch
Character: Abbie Matsuda
Two vastly different female detectives are thrown together to solve the murder of a local man in the sleepy seaside hamlet of Deadloch....
Question Everything
Character: Guest
In a world dominated by fake news and outright lies, Question Everything dissects the news to sort the real from the rumours, separate fact from fiction and flatten conspiracy theories back down to Earth....
Taskmaster
Character: Self
Tough-love Taskmaster Tom Gleeson and his trusty assistant Tom Cashman put a batch of Aussie battlers through their paces!...
Home and Away
Character: Sylvie Gray
Home and Away is set in the fictional town of Summer Bay, a coastal town in New South Wales, and follows the personal and professional lives of the people living in the area. The show initially focused on the Fletcher family, Pippa and Tom Fletcher and their five foster children Frank Morgan, Carly Morris, Steven Matheson, Lynn Davenport and Sally Keating, who would go on to become one of the show's longest-running characters. The show also originally and currently focuses on the Stewart family....
Have You Been Paying Attention?
Character: Self - Guest Quizmaster
Topical comedy-quiz show featuring five guests competing to see who can remember the most about events of the week. A fast-paced, funny look at international affairs, politics, sport and entertainment news, we test just how well our contestants have been paying attention....
The Cheap Seats
Character: Self
Major news stories, not-so-major news stories, stories involving cats, entertainment, sport and viral videos, it’s a Reader's Digest of world events for a generation who simply don’t want to read....
Utopia
Character: Courtney Kano
Set inside the offices of the “Nation Building Authority”, a federal government organisation responsible for overseeing major infrastructure projects, Utopia explores that moment when bureaucracy and grand dreams collide....
Would I Lie to You?
Character: Self - Panelist
Australian version of the British comedy panel show featuring team captains joined by a stellar cast of celebrity guests who weave elaborate tales… that may or may not be the truth. Competing teams then ask questions and watch body language to determine which are outrageous but true, and which are made-up stories....
Guy Montgomery's Guy Mont Spelling Bee
Character: Self
Comedian Guy Montgomery hosts a spelling competition with a mixture of simple and unconventional rounds....
Shaun Micallef's Origin Odyssey
Character:
Shaun Micallef joins six beloved comedians as they undertake transformative journeys around the world, diving deep into their culture, history and identity...
Thank God You're Here
Character:
Each episode involves performers walking through a door into an unknown situation, greeted by the line "Thank God you're here!". They then had to improvise their way through the scene. At the end of each episode a winner was announced....
Claire Hooper's House of Games
Character: Self
Each week on Claire Hooper's House of Games, four celebrities face a bunch of tricky trivia, perplexing puzzles and hilarious headscratchers in exchange for a low-rent daily prize and a shot at the weekly champion's trophy....
A Bite to Eat with Alice
Character: Self
A Bite to Eat with Alice is a cooking show dedicated to creating delicious food. No matter your skill level, host Alice and her guest - who may not be able to cook toast - will inspire you to experiment in the kitchen....
Guy Montgomery's Guy Mont Spelling Bee
Character: Self
Get ready to laugh-out-loud as Guy Montgomery and his loyal assistant Aaron Chen are joined by some of Australia's favourite personalities, testing their spelling prowess with wildly inventive spelling challenges designed to befuddle, bamboozle, and bedazzle them all....
Big Backyard Quiz
Character:
A series of games and quiz rounds explore the people and history of Australia, exactly the way people weren't taught in school. We don't have any crew added to this movie. You can help by adding some!...
Spicks and Specks
Character:
Adam Hills, one of Australia's favourite comedians and winner of Edinburgh's Best of the Fest award, is joined by two team captains, comedian and actor Alan Brough and radio breakfast announcer Myf Warhurst, as well as brave personalities who enjoy having long forgotten embarrassing stories laughed about on national television. Two teams go head to head as they sing, shout and delve deep into the recesses of their collective minds to help earn their team an extremely inglorious victory....
Sunny Nights
Character: Sylvie
A brother and sister venture from the US to Sydney, determined to grow their new spray tan business Tansform, but when they get caught up in the city's criminal underworld, they must figure out how to stay alive, out of prison, and in the black....
Movie Credits
Big Backyard Quiz
Character:
A series of games and quiz rounds explore the people and history of Australia, exactly the way people weren't taught in school....
The Pout-Pout Fish
Character: Pip (voice)
Living on a rundown shipwreck, Mr. Fish one day discovers a hyperactive young sea dragon Pip – who had mistaken his home for a junkyard – pilfering his belongings. The heated argument that ensues leaves both their houses in ruin. But there is hope! Embarking on a seemingly impossible quest in search of the mythical 'Shimmer' to grant them a wish, there’s only one problem: someone else is on the hunt......
Haven't You Heard? Everyone Hates Me.
Character: Andy
Twentysomething Daanish shows up at the housewarming party of his two best friends that he was meant to move in with – but instead of moving in with him, they've moved in with his high school bully....