Laysla De Oliveira is a talented Canadian actress born in Toronto to a family of Brazilian descent. Initially starting out as a fashion model at age 14, she shifted focus to the performing arts, studying drama and dance at the Rosedale Heights School of the Arts. She broke out internationally as the demonic antagonist Dodge in Netflix’s Locke & Key and the horror feature In the Tall Grass. De Oliveira now stars alongside Zoe Saldaña as undercover operative-turned-Delta Force agent Cruz Manuelos in Taylor Sheridan’s Paramount+ action-spy thriller series, Lioness.