Ningali Lawford

Ningali Lawford
Born	Ningali Josie Lawford 1967 (age 49–50) Wangkatjungka, Western Australia, Australia
Nationality	Australian
Other names	Josie Ningali Lawford, Ningali Lawford-Wolf
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1990-present

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.

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

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, 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".

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.

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