Arienne Mandi

Arienne Mandi is an American actress best known for playing the lead character Dani Núñez in The L Word: Generation Q. She has played minor roles in Hawaii Five-0 (2010 TV series), NCIS: Naval Criminal Investigative Service, Agent X (TV series), NCIS: Los Angeles. She played the lead character, an Iranian judoka "Leila Hosseini" in the 2023 political-thriller "Tatami". She also played Francesca "Franki" Murray in Love, Classified (2022).

Career
Mandi appeared in the shows, NCIS, Hawaii Five-O, The Interns, NCIS: Los Angeles, and In The Vault. She also played the lead in the film Baja. She subsequently went on to play a major character Daniela "Dani" Núñez, on The L Word: Generation Q and was widely loved by the fans. She starred in the film Love, Classified (2022) as Francesca "franki" Murray. She will be playing the lead in an upcoming political-thriller "Tatami (film)", alongside Zar Amir Ebrahimi, co-directed by an Academy award winning director Guy Nattiv and Ebrahimi. It had its world premiere and Asian premiere at the 80th Venice International Film Festival on September 2, 2023 and 36th Tokyo International Film Festival on October 25, 2023 respectively. It was also screened at the 19th Zurich Film Festival on October 2, 2023 receiving rave reviews from the critics and audience alike.

Personal life
Mandi was born in Los Angeles, California. She is Chilean and Iranian. Mandi is fluent in Spanish, French, Persian and English. She made the following statement in regards to her sexuality: "If there were to be anything close to what I feel it would be pan. I accept love in all forms and I give love. It's just all love." In a podcast episode of Scissoring Isn't A Thing, Mandi confirmed that Nazanin Mandi is her cousin.