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Ningali Lawford (Ningali Josie Lawford) was born on 1967 in Wangkatjungka, Western Australia, Australia, is an Australian actress (1967–2019). Discover Ningali Lawford's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is she in this year and how she spends money? Also learn how she earned most of networth at the age of 52 years old?

Popular As Ningali Josie Lawford
Occupation Actor
Age 52 years old
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Birthplace Wangkatjungka, Western Australia, Australia
Date of death 11 August, 2019
Died Place Edinburgh, Scotland
Nationality Australia

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1967

Ningali Josie Lawford was born in 1967 on Christmas Creek Station, a cattle station in Wangkatjungka, near Fitzroy Crossing in Western Australia, where her father, a stockman, and mother, a domestic, worked.

She was a member of the Walmadjari (Tjiwaling) people, and of the Wangkatjunga language group.

After attending Kewdale Senior High School in Perth, she spent a year in Anchorage, Alaska, on an American Field Scholarship.

Lawford trained in dance at the Aboriginal Islander Dance Theatre (AIDT) in Sydney.

After leaving AIDT, Lawford started to dance at Bangarra Dance Theatre.

1990

Lawford made her acting debut in the musical Bran Nue Dae, which premiered in Perth in 1990.

1994

In 1994, Lawford premiered her one-woman show, Ningali, in Perth.

It was co-written by stage directors Robyn Archer and Angela Chaplin, whom she had met the previous year.

1995

The show toured internationally and won the Fringe First Award for Best New Production at the 1995 Edinburgh Festival Fringe and the 1996 Green Room Award for Best Actress in a One Woman Show.

2000

In 2000, the satirical comedy Black and Tran premiered at the Melbourne Comedy Festival.

It was a collaboration between Lawford and Vietnamese comedian Hung Le.

It addressed "the issue of racial discrimination by ridiculing the stereotypes of Aboriginal and Vietnamese cultures".

2001

Other theatre roles included Aliwa for Company B Belvoir (2001), Uncle Vanya (2005) and Jandamarra (2008) both for Black Swan Theatre Company.

2002

She later became a cultural consultant and voice artist for various productions at the company, and was a guest performer on two productions in 2002.

Lawford played Maude, the mother of protagonist Molly, in the 2002 film Rabbit-Proof Fence.

2009

She later appeared in the 2009 film version.

2015

In 2015, Lawford played the role of Polly in the film Last Cab to Darwin, for which she received an AACTA Award nomination for Best Actress in a Leading Role.

2016

Lawford was involved in the development of The Secret River at the Sydney Theatre Company, narrating its return Sydney season and national tour in 2016, Adelaide Festival performances in 2018 and Edinburgh Festival performances in 2019.

Lawford had five children and two grandchildren.

She moved to Kalbarri later in her career to pursue a break away from being an actress and to also spend more time raising her children before returning to film.

Actor and musician Mark Coles Smith reported on a Take 5 (a show hosted by Zan Rowe on ABC Television) that Lawford was his grandmother.

He reported that, sometime when dancing with Bangarra in Sydney, she had a three-month relationship with David Bowie, who wanted her to return to Berlin with him, but she refused.

2017

In 2017, Lawford voiced the character of Nanna on the National Indigenous Television (NITV) animated series Little J & Big Cuz, which features Indigenous Australian characters.

2019

Ningali Josie Lawford (1967 – 11 August 2019), also known as Ningali Lawford-Wolf and Josie Ningali Lawford, was an Aboriginal Australian actress known for her roles in the films Rabbit-Proof Fence (2002), Bran Nue Dae (2009), and Last Cab to Darwin (2015), for which she was nominated for the AACTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role.

Lawford died of complications following a severe asthma attack while in Edinburgh, Scotland, during the 2019 tour, aged 52.

Lawford won awards for her one-woman theatre show Ningali, and for Aliwa, Uncle Vanya and Jandamarra.