Lesley-Ann Brandt
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| Born |
2 December 1981 Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa |
| Residence | Los Angeles, California, United States |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Years active | 2007–present |
| Known for | Naevia in Spartacus, Mazikeen in Lucifer |
| Spouse(s) | Chris Payne Gilbert [married in 2015] |
| Website | www |
Lesley-Ann Brandt is a South African-born actress (of Cape Coloured descent) who is based in Auckland, New Zealand, and Los Angeles, United States. Brandt has acted in a number of New Zealand television series and first came to international notice with her role as a slave girl Naevia in the series Spartacus: Blood and Sand. Since January 2016, she plays the role of Maze (Mazikeen) on the FOX television series Lucifer.
Born in Cape Town, South Africa, Brandt is of East Indian, German, Dutch and Spanish descent. She is a fluent Afrikaans speaker and lists yoga, hockey and baseball amongst her interests. In South Africa, she played competitive field hockey.
In 1999, Brandt emigrated to Auckland, New Zealand, with her parents and her younger brother. Brandt started work in retail sales in Auckland before securing work as an information technology recruitment consultant. She also worked as a promo-girl for Red Bull. Following some modelling work she was cast in a number of New Zealand television advertisements. She studied acting and was trained in the Meisner technique in 2008.
Brandt's first significant acting role was in the New Zealand television series Diplomatic Immunity. As well as her lead role in Diplomatic Immunity, Brandt has appeared in guest roles on the New Zealand hospital based soap opera series Shortland Street and This Is Not My Life, a science fiction series set in the 2020s in the fictional town of Waimoana.
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