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Lesley Vanderwalt
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 frequen…
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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
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2026
The Bluff
Movie Hair Designer
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2025
Return to Dark City
Movie Self
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2024
Highway to Valhalla: In Pursuit of Furiosa
Movie Self
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2024
Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
Movie Hair Designer
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2022
Three Thousand Years of Longing
Movie Makeup & Hair
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2019
Dora and the Lost City of Gold
Movie Makeup Supervisor
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2018
Aquaman
Movie Hair Designer
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2017
Alien: Covenant
Movie Makeup Supervisor
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2015
Mad Max: Fury Road
Movie Hair Designer
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2014
Old School
TV show Make-Up Artist
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2013
The Great Gatsby
Movie Makeup Supervisor
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2011
Sleeping Beauty
Movie Hair Designer
- 2009
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2009
Knowing
Movie Makeup Designer
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2007
Spirit of Vengeance: Making Ghost Rider
Movie Self
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2007
Ghost Rider
Movie Hairstylist
More credits
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2006
Happy Feet
Movie Makeup Artist
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2003
Beyond Borders
Movie Makeup Designer
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2002
Scooby-Doo
Movie Hair Supervisor
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2002
Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones
Movie Makeup Supervisor
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2001
Moulin Rouge!
Movie Makeup Artist
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1998
Babe: Pig in the City
Movie Makeup Designer
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1998
Dark City
Movie Makeup Supervisor
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1996
Whipping Boy
Movie Makeup Supervisor
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1996
The Beast
TV show Makeup Department Head
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1994
Street Fighter
Movie Makeup Designer
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1994
Shotgun Wedding
Movie Makeup Artist
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1994
No Escape
Movie Makeup Designer
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1994
The Custodian
Movie Makeup Supervisor
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1992
The Last Days of Chez Nous
Movie Makeup Artist
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1991
Return to the Blue Lagoon
Movie Makeup Artist
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1990
Blood Oath
Movie Makeup Artist
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1989
The Blood of Heroes
Movie Makeup Artist
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1987
High Tide
Movie Makeup & Hair
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1987
Vietnam
Movie Makeup Artist
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1986
For Love Alone
Movie Makeup Artist
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1985
The Coca-Cola Kid
Movie Makeup Artist
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1984
One Night Stand
Movie Assistant Makeup Artist
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1981
Mad Max 2
Movie Makeup Supervisor
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1981
Race for the Yankee Zephyr
Movie Makeup Artist
