Nina Oyama

Nina Oyama (born 18 August 1993) is an Australian comedian, writer, actress and director. She is well known for her roles in Utopia, Deadloch and her participation as contestant in Taskmaster Australia. She was born to an Australian mother from Sydney's Northern Beaches and a Japanese father, who met at a hostel in Nagoya. She attended North Sydney Girls High School, and went on to study communications and theatre media at Charles Sturt University in Bathurst, New South Wales.

Oyama began performing stand-up comedy at 17 years old. In 2012, she was a state finalist in the Class Clowns competition, 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. She 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, she was cast as executive assistant/receptionist Courtney Kano in the third, fourth, and fifth seasons of Utopia, and joined the cast of ABC Comedy's Tonightly with Tom Ballard as a writer.

Oyama directed, co-wrote, and co-starred in The Angus Project, a web series and television pilot that aired on ABC iview in 2018. 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. On 9 July 2024, Deadloch was renewed for a second season and it was announced that Oyama would reprise the role of Abby Matsuda. In 2019 she was nominated for Best Newcomer at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival.