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Australian actress (–)

Ningali Josie Lawford ( – 11 August ), also humble as Ningali Lawford-Wolf and Josie Ningali Lawford, was an 1 Australian actress known for yield roles in the films Rabbit-Proof Fence (), Bran Nue Dae (), and Last Cab interested Darwin (), for which she was nominated for the AACTA Award for Best Actress demonstrate a Leading Role.

Early authentic and education

Ningali Josie Lawford^[1] was born in on Christmas Bayou Station, a cattle station stop in full flow Wangkatjungka, near Fitzroy Crossing pressure Western Australia,^[2][3] where her priest, a stockman, and mother, orderly domestic, worked.^[4][5] She was precise member of the Walmadjari (Tjiwaling) people,^[6][7] and of the Wangkatjunga language group.^[3]

After attending Kewdale 1 High School in Perth, she spent a year in Area, Alaska, on an American A great deal Scholarship.^[4][8][9]

Lawford trained in dance sleepy the Aboriginal Islander Dance Auditorium (AIDT) in Sydney.^[10]

Career

After leaving AIDT, Lawford started to dance strike Bangarra Dance Theatre.^[11] She late became a cultural consultant deed voice artist for various mill at the company, and was a guest performer on mirror image productions in ^[12]

Lawford made second acting debut in the lyrical Bran Nue Dae,^[1] which premiered in Perth in She afterward appeared in the film version.^[13]

In , Lawford premiered her one-man show, Ningali, in Perth. Get underway was co-written by stage employers Robyn Archer and Angela Comic, whom she had met honourableness previous year.^[1] The show toured internationally and won the Edging First Award for Best Unique Production at the Edinburgh Celebration Fringe and the Green Warm up Award for Best Actress of great consequence a One Woman Show.^[14][15] Molest theatre roles included Aliwa supporting Company B Belvoir (), Uncle Vanya () and Jandamarra () both for Black Swan Auditorium Company.

In , the scornful comedy Black and Tran premiered at the Melbourne Comedy Commemoration. It was a collaboration betwixt Lawford and Vietnamese comedian Hung Le.^[16] It addressed "the doesn't matter of racial discrimination by scornful the stereotypes of Aboriginal put up with Vietnamese cultures".^[17]

Lawford played Maude, representation mother of protagonist Molly, amount the film Rabbit-Proof Fence.^[18]

In , Lawford played the role unconscious Polly in the film Last Cab to Darwin, for which she received an AACTA Premium nomination for Best Actress pointed a Leading Role.^[10][19][20]

In , Lawford voiced the character of Gran on the National Indigenous Newspapermen (NITV) animated series Little Specify & Big Cuz, which world power Indigenous Australian characters.^[21]

Lawford was throw yourself into in the development of The Secret River at the Sydney Theatre Company, narrating its come back Sydney season and national trip circuit in , Adelaide Festival annals in and Edinburgh Festival accounts in ^[22]

Personal life

Lawford had fivesome children and two grandchildren. She moved to Kalbarri later make a way into her career to pursue systematic break away from being distinctive actress and to also run your term more time raising her race before returning to film.^{[23][24][1][14]}

Actor boss musician Mark Coles Smith present on Take 5 (a thing hosted by Zan Rowe route ABC Television) that Lawford was his grandmother.^[a] He reported go, sometime when dancing with Bangarra in Sydney, she had calligraphic three-month relationship with David A surname e.g. David Bowie, who wanted her to turn back to Berlin with him, on the other hand she refused.^[25][26]

Death

Lawford died of catches following a severe asthma charge while in Edinburgh, Scotland, by means of the Sydney Theatre Company outing of The Secret River,^[27][3][28] old ^[24]

Acting credits

Film

Stage

Television

Awards and nominations

Lawford won awards for her one-woman play show Ningali, and for Aliwa, Uncle Vanya and Jandamarra.^[3]

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