Lesley Ann Brandt and Maria Bartiromo

Lesley Ann Brandt (born December 2nd, 1981) is a South African model, actress and TV host. Brandt started out her acting in her role in the New Zealand comedy Diplomatic Immunity. Then she got her first American performance in Spartacus: Blood and Sand as Naevia. The actress has been featured on a variety of TV series during the past 10 years. This includes Spartacus: Gods of the Arena CSI: NY Single Ladies The Librarians. Brandt is currently playing Mazikeen the character of Tom Ellis Lauren German Kevin Alejandro's urban fantasy Lucifer. Brandt was born and lived in Cape Town South Africa and after that, she moved into Auckland New Zealand with her family as a teenager. The actress began her career as a model when she appeared in commercials and print ads. Her rise to stardom as a supermodel began when she was working in retail and IT recruitment. In 2009, she was a part-time actress as a character on a New Zealand television sitcom called Diplomatic Immunity as Leilani. Her first major appearance came in 2021, when she appeared as the part of a slave-girl Naevia for the Starz show Spartacus: Blood and Sand. The actress has also reprised her role as Naevia in the prequel miniseries Spartacus: Gods of the Arena. Craig Parker was her co-star in three separate TV shows that included Diplomatic Immunity (2009), Spartacus (2010) and Legend of the Seeker (2008). In 2016, Mazikeen was cast as the bounty hunter for Netflix's cult show Lucifer. The role is her most prominent to date. In the show, she is paired together with Tom Ellis Lauren French Kevin Alejandro D. B. Woodside.

Maria Bartiromo has a number of highly popular television shows in her repertoire. She was the first American to stream live through an exchange like the New York Stock Exchange. A veteran journalist with two decades experience covering economies and business, Bartiromo was a key player in positioning CNBC as one of the top in the business and economic segment. It is easy to see how her successful career as a journalist was destined to be hers. Maria struggled with choosing which career path to pursue as a woman. Maria would one day want to pursue a career as a musician, later an interior decorator. When she found out about the excitement and thrills that journalistic work, she had no turning back. The feisty lady is an exceptional journalist as well as an inspiration to women striving to be successful in an all-male world. Along with being listed as one of the fifty people who shaped the decade, she's the first journalist of female descent to ever be inducted into Cable Hall of Fame. Also, she is a journalist and an author.