Lesley Vanderwalt
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.
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Known For
Crew
The Bluff
Makeup Designer, Hair Designer
2026
Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
Hair Designer, Makeup Designer
2024
Three Thousand Years of Longing
Makeup & Hair, Hair Designer, Makeup Designer
2022
Dora and the Lost City of Gold
Makeup Designer, Makeup Supervisor
2019
Aquaman
Hair Designer
2018
Alien: Covenant
Hair Designer, Makeup Supervisor, Makeup Designer
2017
Mad Max: Fury Road
Hair Designer, Makeup Designer
2015
The Great Gatsby
Makeup Supervisor, Hair Supervisor
2013
Sleeping Beauty
Makeup Designer, Hair Designer
2011
Knowing
Hair Designer, Makeup Designer
2009
Ghost Rider
Hairstylist
2007
Happy Feet
Makeup Artist
2006