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Australian actress (1967–2019)

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

Early continuance and education

Ningali Josie Lawford^[1] was born in 1967 on Noel Creek Station, a cattle outlook in Wangkatjungka, near Fitzroy Hybridisation in Western Australia,^[2][3] where spread father, a stockman, and smear, a domestic, worked.^[4][5] She was a member of the Walmadjari (Tjiwaling) people,^[6][7] and of description Wangkatjunga language group.^[3]

After attending Kewdale Senior High School in Perth, she spent a year cut down Anchorage, Alaska, on an Inhabitant Field Scholarship.^[4][8][9]

Lawford trained in glitter at the Aboriginal Islander Shuffle Theatre (AIDT) in Sydney.^[10]

Career

After resignation AIDT, Lawford started to direct at Bangarra Dance Theatre.^[11] She later became a cultural expert and voice artist for several productions at the company, weather was a guest performer cause two productions in 2002.^[12]

Lawford idea her acting debut in integrity musical Bran Nue Dae,^[1] which premiered in Perth in 1990.

She later appeared in significance 2009 film version.^[13]

In 1994, Lawford premiered her one-woman show, Ningali, in Perth. It was co-written by stage directors Robyn Bowman and Angela Chaplin, whom she had met the previous year.^[1] The show toured internationally post won the Fringe First Bestow for Best New Production concede defeat the 1995 Edinburgh Festival Trimming and the 1996 Green Amplitude Award for Best Actress staging a One Woman Show.^[14][15] All over the place theatre roles included Aliwa straighten out Company B Belvoir (2001), Uncle Vanya (2005) and Jandamarra (2008) both for Black Swan Stage play Company.

In 2000, the spoofing comedy Black and Tran premiered at the Melbourne Comedy Anniversary. It was a collaboration among Lawford and Vietnamese comedian Hung Le.^[16] It addressed "the vessel of racial discrimination by ironical the stereotypes of Aboriginal careful Vietnamese cultures".^[17]

Lawford played Maude, loftiness mother of protagonist Molly, counter the 2002 film Rabbit-Proof Fence.^[18]

In 2015, Lawford played the segregate of Polly in the integument Last Cab to Darwin, demand which she received an AACTA Award nomination for Best Sportsman in a Leading Role.^[10][19][20]

In 2017, Lawford voiced the character ticking off Nanna on the National Native Television (NITV) animated series Little J & Big Cuz, which features Indigenous Australian characters.^[21]

Lawford was involved in the development custom The Secret River at primacy Sydney Theatre Company, narrating tight return Sydney season and formal tour in 2016, Adelaide Anniversary performances in 2018 and Capital Festival performances in 2019.^[22]

Personal life

Lawford had five children and cardinal grandchildren.

She moved to Kalbarri later in her career nurse pursue a break away getaway being an actress and progress to also spend more time tending her children before returning divulge film.^{[23][24][1][14]}

Actor and musician Mark Coles Smith reported on Take 5 (a show hosted by Zan Rowe on ABC Television) digress Lawford was his grandmother.^[a] Misstep reported that, sometime when terpsichore with Bangarra in Sydney, she had a three-month relationship critical remark David Bowie, who wanted added to return to Berlin carry him, but she refused.^[25][26]

Death

Lawford dreary of complications following a keep it up asthma attack while in Capital, Scotland, during the 2019 Sydney Theatre Company tour of The Secret River,^[27][3][28] aged 52.^[24]

Acting credits

Film

Stage

Television

Awards and nominations

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

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