---
name: "Ningali Lawford"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/ningali-lawford"
fi1m_id: "ningali-lawford"
imdb_id: "nm0492443"
tmdb_id: 1461107
wikidata_id: "Q22958091"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "1 January 1967"
died: "11 August 2019"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-26T18:03:27.082002+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Ningali Lawford

## Identity

Ningali Lawford

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/ningali-lawford
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** ningali-lawford
- **IMDb ID:** nm0492443
- **TMDB ID:** 1461107
- **Wikidata ID:** Q22958091
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ningali_Lawford, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q22958091, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0492443/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1461107

Actor. Born 1 January 1967 in Wangkatjungka, Western Australia, Australia. Died 11 August 2019.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 1 January 1967, Wangkatjungka, Western Australia, Australia
- **Died:** 11 August 2019
- **Also known as:** Ningali Lawford-Wolf
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ningali_Lawford, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q22958091, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0492443/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1461107

## Biography

Ningali Lawford, also credited as Ningali Lawford-Wolf, was an Aboriginal Australian actor. She was born in 1967 in Wangkatjungka, Western Australia, and died on 11 August 2019 in Edinburgh, Scotland.

Lawford began her career as a dancer with the Aboriginal Islander Dance Theatre and Bangarra Dance Theatre. Her stage work included the one-woman show *Ningali* (1994–1996), which toured internationally, and later productions with companies including Belvoir, Black Swan State Theatre Company and Sydney Theatre Company. On screen she played Maude, Molly’s mother, in *Rabbit-Proof Fence* (2002), Theresa Johnson in *Bran Nue Dae* (2009) and Polly in *Last Cab to Darwin* (2015), for which she received an AACTA Award nomination for Best Actress in a Leading Role. She also appeared in the television series *Mystery Road* (2018).

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, nytimes.com, telegraph.co.uk.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Rabbit-Proof Fence* (2002), Fi1m 80, as Maud - Molly's Mother — [page](https://film.one/film/rabbit-proof-fence.md)

## Complete filmography (12)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Upright* (2019), series, as Danni
- *KGB* (2019), series, as Jack's Mum
- *Doug the Human* (2019), as Big Hole
- *Konya* (2018), as Grace
- *Mystery Road* (2018), series, as Dot
- *Sweet Country* (2018), Dialogue Coach
- *Little J & Big Cuz* (2017), series, as Nanna (voice)
- *Last Cab to Darwin* (2015), as Polly
- *Bran Nue Dae* (2009), as Theresa
- *Dirt Game* (2009), series, as Ruth
- *Rabbit-Proof Fence* (2002), as Maud - Molly's Mother — Fi1m 80, [page](https://film.one/film/rabbit-proof-fence.md)
- *The Games* (1998), series, as Ningali

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