Is Lesley Mirza in Tracker? All about the actress’ appearance in the CBS drama

In the CBS series Tracker, Lesley Mirza appears in season 1 episode 3 titled Springland. Her role is minor and isn't recurring. She appears as a guest star, portraying the role of a waitress, as confirmed in her IMDb credit.

When Colter Shaw is sent to Spingland during a case, he witnesses a small, close-knit community with secrets tied to the local church and its leader. Colter meets Lesley there who is working as an ordinary waitress, embodying the apparent illusion of the town's normalcy.

Read on to know more.

Here is what we know about Lesley Mirza's appearance in Tracker

Tracker's narrative focuses on Colter Shaw helping Reenie Greene, a young woman searching for her missing sister, Dylan. For this case, he goes to Springland, to a small, close-knit community, led by the church and its leader. Gradually, he starts to observe something off in the society, and this is when some dark secrets of the church and its leader unfold, creating most of the tension in the coming episodes. The synopsis of season 1 episode 3 reads,

"As Colter helps a young woman locate her free-spirited sister, he digs deeper into how the sister’s last days may lead to a dark secret she unearthed in this tight-knit town.”

In the town, he meets Lesley Mirza, the waitress in a local diner, a recurring type of location that creates a "slice of life" atmosphere for the small town deep down filled with secrets. Her scene adds a sense of normalcy in the visuals and in Colter's mind. When Colter arrives first in the town, she briefly interacts with him, and their conversation humanizes the world, portraying the calm and ordinary lives of people in the town before Colter digs into something darker and unsettling.

In the diner scene with Lesley Mirza, Colter expresses that he is in a hurry because of work, and that is when they hear some guys looking outside towards a girl still distributing a missing person flyer. A boy furiously storms out to stop saying that she is doing it "again". This evokes some curiosity in Colter, and he leaves the diner saying that he is getting "too late".

The scene also helped transition the tone from an investigative one to a casual observation as a third person. It created a breathing space for the viewers from the continuous investigation and information they are fed with.

In a show like Tracker, these small roles help add realism and provide some local feel and tone to the environment.

Here is where you have seen Lesley Mirza other than Tracker

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Lesley is half British and half Canadian, born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. She then moved to England and attended school there itself and in 1993 she appeared on a mini series Lipstick on Your Collar. After this, she focused on her craft of acting and her career. She appeared in some more small roles, like in the TV series Smoke, where she played the Nurse and Greeter in Destist, another mini TV series, as per her IMDb data.

Tracker is based on a novel, The Never Game, by Jeffery Deaver. The show first aired on CBS on February 11 2024.

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