Nationality Australian Years active 1990-present | Occupation Actor | |
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Full Name Ningali Josie Lawford Other names Josie Ningali Lawford, Ningali Lawford-Wolf Other name Josie Ningali Lawford, Ningali Lawford-Wolf Nominations AACTA Award for Best Lead Actress Movies Last Cab to Darwin, Rabbit‑Proof Fence, Bran Nue Dae, 3 Acts of Murder, Jacob Similar Mark Coles Smith, Jeremy Sims, Michael Caton, Reg Cribb, Emma Hamilton | ||
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Ningali Josie Lawford (born 1967) is an Australian actress. She is 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.
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Early life
Lawford was born on Christmas Creek Station, a cattle station at Wangkatjungka, near Fitzroy Crossing in Western Australia, where her father, a stockman, and mother, a domestic, worked. After attending 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 in Sydney.
Career
Lawford made her acting debut in the musical Bran Nue Dae, which premiered in Perth in 1990.
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. The show toured internationally and won the Fringe First Award for Best New Production at the 1995 Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
In 2000, Black and Tran premiered at the Melbourne Comedy Festival. It was a collaboration between Lawford and Vietnamese comedian Hung Le.
Personal life
Lawford's son Jaden was born in 1991, and her daughter Rosie was born in 1997.
