Lesley Vanderwalt
Known For: Costume & Make-Up
Biography
Lesley Vanderwalt is a New Zealand cinematic hair designer and makeup artist. Vanderwalt was raised and began her career in New Zealand before moving to Australia. She has frequently collaborated with directors such as George Miller and Baz Luhrmann. Vanderwalt has worked as a hair or makeup supervisor on TV shows and films including Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior, Farscape, Moulin Rouge!, Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones, and The Great Gatsby. In 2016, she won the Academy Award for Best Makeup and Hairstyling at the 88th Academy Awards and a BAFTA Award for Best Makeup and Hair in the 69th British Academy Film Awards for her work overseeing hair and makeup on the movie Mad Max: Fury Road. Description above from the Wikipedia article Lesley Vanderwalt, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Filmography
2025
- Return to Dark City as Self
2024
- Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga ... (Hair Designer)
- Highway to Valhalla: In Pursuit of Furiosa as Self
2022
- Three Thousand Years of Longing ... (Makeup & Hair)
2019
- Dora and the Lost City of Gold ... (Makeup Designer)
2018
- Aquaman ... (Hair Designer)
2017
- Alien: Covenant ... (Hair Designer)
2015
- Mad Max: Fury Road ... (Makeup Designer)
2014
- Old School as Make-Up Artist
2013
- The Great Gatsby ... (Makeup Supervisor)
2011
- Sleeping Beauty ... (Makeup Designer)
2009
- Knowing ... (Hair Designer)
2007
- Ghost Rider ... (Hairstylist)
2006
- Happy Feet ... (Makeup Artist)
2003
- Beyond Borders ... (Makeup Designer)
2002
- Scooby-Doo ... (Hair Supervisor)
- Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones ... (Makeup Supervisor)
2001
- Moulin Rouge! ... (Makeup Artist)
1998
- Dark City ... (Hair Supervisor)
- Babe: Pig in the City ... (Hair Designer)
1996
- Whipping Boy ... (Makeup Supervisor)
- The Beast ... (Makeup Department Head)
1994
- Street Fighter ... (Makeup Designer)
- No Escape ... (Hair Designer)
- Shotgun Wedding ... (Makeup Artist)
- The Custodian ... (Makeup Supervisor)
1992
- The Last Days of Chez Nous ... (Makeup Artist)
1991
- Return to the Blue Lagoon ... (Makeup Artist)
1990
- Blood Oath ... (Makeup Artist)
1989
- The Blood of Heroes ... (Makeup Artist)
1986
- For Love Alone ... (Makeup Artist)
1985
- The Coca-Cola Kid ... (Makeup Artist)
1984
- One Night Stand ... (Assistant Makeup Artist)
1981
- Mad Max 2 ... (Makeup Supervisor)
- Race for the Yankee Zephyr ... (Makeup Artist)
1980
- Beyond Reasonable Doubt ... (Makeup Artist)