Lesley-Ann Brandt (born 2 December 1981) is a South African actress.
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 has played the role of Maze (Mazikeen) on the television series
Lucifer.Born in Cape Town, South Africa, Brandt is Cape Coloured of
Indian, German, Dutch, and Spanish descent. She is a fluent Afrikaans
speaker and lists yoga, hockey and baseball among her interests. In
South Africa, she played competitive field hockey.In 1999, Brandt
immigrated to Auckland, New Zealand, with her parents and her younger
brother Brian Brandt. Brandt started work in retail sales in Auckland
before securing work as an information technology recruitment
consultant. 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. Brandt has appeared in guest roles on the New Zealand
hospital soap opera, Shortland Street, and This Is Not My Life, a
science fiction series set in the 2020s in the fictional town of
Waimoana.
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 has played the role of Maze (Mazikeen) on the television series
Lucifer.Born in Cape Town, South Africa, Brandt is Cape Coloured of
Indian, German, Dutch, and Spanish descent. She is a fluent Afrikaans
speaker and lists yoga, hockey and baseball among her interests. In
South Africa, she played competitive field hockey.In 1999, Brandt
immigrated to Auckland, New Zealand, with her parents and her younger
brother Brian Brandt. Brandt started work in retail sales in Auckland
before securing work as an information technology recruitment
consultant. 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. Brandt has appeared in guest roles on the New Zealand
hospital soap opera, 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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