Arienne Mandi
Arienne Mandi is an American actress best known for playing the lead character Dani Núñez in The L Word: Generation Q. Francesca "franki" Murray in Love, Classified (2022). 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 will be playing the lead character, an Iranian judoka "Leila Hosseini" in the upcoming political-thriller "Tatami"

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 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 will have its world premiere at the 80th Venice International Film Festival on September 2, 2023. 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. She does regular boxing and trained heavily for her film "tatami" with olympic judo players. References

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Actresses of Iranian descent
Actresses of Chilean descent
American television actresses
LGBT actresses
LGBT people from California
Living people
Pansexual actresses
Year of birth missing (living people)
American LGBT actors
21st-century American LGBT people
21st-century American women