Lesley Vanderwalt
- Known for
- Costume & Make-Up
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.
Known for
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- 2026The Bluff · hair designer
- 2024Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga · makeup designer
- 2022Three Thousand Years of Longing · makeup designer
- 2019Dora and the Lost City of Gold · makeup supervisor
- 2018Aquaman · hair designer
- 2017Alien: Covenant · makeup designer
- 2015Mad Max: Fury Road · makeup designer
- 2013The Great Gatsby · hair supervisor
- 2011Sleeping Beauty · makeup designer
- 2009Knowing · hair designer
- 2007Ghost Rider · hairstylist
- 2006Happy Feet · makeup artist
- 2003Beyond Borders · makeup designer
- 2002Scooby-Doo · hair supervisor
- 2002Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones · makeup supervisor
- 2001Moulin Rouge! · makeup artist
- 1998Babe: Pig in the City · hair designer
- 1998Dark City · hair department head
- 1996Whipping Boy · makeup supervisor
- 1994Street Fighter · makeup designer
- 1994Shotgun Wedding · makeup artist
- 1994No Escape · makeup designer
- 1994The Custodian · makeup supervisor
- 1992The Last Days of Chez Nous · makeup artist
- 1991Return to the Blue Lagoon · makeup artist
- 1990Blood Oath · makeup artist
- 1989The Blood of Heroes · makeup artist
- 1987High Tide · makeup & hair
- 1987Vietnam · makeup artist
- 1986For Love Alone · makeup artist
- 1985The Coca-Cola Kid · makeup artist
- 1984One Night Stand · assistant makeup artist
- 1981Mad Max 2 · makeup supervisor
- 1981Race for the Yankee Zephyr · makeup artist
- 1980Beyond Reasonable Doubt · makeup artist
Acting 4
- 2025Return to Dark City as Self
- 2024Highway to Valhalla: In Pursuit of Furiosa as Self
- 2009Knowing All: The Making of a Futuristic Thriller as self
- 2007Spirit of Vengeance: Making Ghost Rider as Self





