Profile: Naomi Watts
Born: September 28, 1968, Shoreham, England, UK
Height: 5' 5"
Fact: Naomi is a vegetarian.
Quote: "Oh, I'm definitely a wild child."
Quote: "I've had people who've seen "21 Grams" say, 'Wow, you're so brave to be looking like that'. This shocks me. I think that's what an actor's job is, to lose yourself in a role."
Naomi Watts Biography
Naomi Watts had already been a working actress for over a decade when she earned notice as a promising newcomer in David Lynch's Cannes Film Festival prizewinner Mulholland Drive (2001).
Born in Britain and raised in Australia, Watts began acting in her teens, landing her first film role in For Love Alone (1986). Watts subsequently appeared with future Hollywood headliners Nicole Kidman and Thandie Newton in John Duigan's disarming teen romance Flirting (1991). Watts's next film with Duigan, Wide Sargasso Sea (1992), was not so well received. After her first taste of Hollywood with Joe Dante's schlock movie homage Matinee (1992), Watts nabbed a starring role as Jimmy Smits's disturbed student in George Miller's little seen courtroom drama Gross Misconduct (1993). Watts then starred as Jet Girl to Lori Petty's Tank Girl (1995), but the science fiction fantasy suffered an ignominious box office fate. After a series of TV movies and thrillers, including Sleepwalkers (1997) and Children of the Corn IV (1996), Watts appeared in Marshall Herskovitz's high-toned Venetian courtesan costumer Dangerous Beauty (1998) and successful TV docudrama The Hunt for the Unicorn Killer (1999).
Watts's breakthrough finally arrived when David Lynch cast her in his ABC pilot Mulholland Drive. Though ABC canceled the project in 1999 after Lynch turned in a typically mood-drenched work, StudioCanal financed its transformation into a feature that debuted to acclaim at Cannes in 2001. A tortured-comic Los Angeles dreamscape akin to Lost Highway, Mulholland Drive featured Watts as the blonde half of a female duo caught in a mystery of shifting identities. Drawing attention for her not-for-network TV love scene with co-star Laura Harring, Watts also earned praise as a rising "new" actress.
Naomi Watts Filmography
King Kong (2005)--Ann Darrow
The Ring 2 (2004)--Rachel Keller
Stay (2004)--Lila Culpepper
I Heart Huckabee's (2004)--Dawn Campbell
The Assassination of Richard Nixon (2004)--Marie Byck
I Love Huckabee's (2004)
We Don't Live Here Anymore (2004)
21 Grams (2003)--Christina
LeDivorce (2003)--Roxy
Ned Kelly (2003)--Julia Cook
Rabbits (2002)--Suzie
The Outsider (2002) (TV)--Rebecca Yoder
Plots with a View (2002)--Meredith
The Ring (2002)--Rachel Keller
Mulholland Drive (2001)--Betty Elms
Down (2001)--Jennifer Evans
Ellie Parker (2001)--Ellie Parker
The Wyvern Mystery (2000) (TV)--Alice Fairfield
Strange Planet (1999)--Alice
The Hunt for the Unicorn Killer (1999) (TV)--Holly Maddux
The Christmas Wish (1998) (TV)--Renee
Babe: Pig in the City (1998) (voice)--Additional Character Voice
Dangerous Beauty (1998)--Guila De Lezze
Sleepwalkers (1997) TV Series--Kate Russell
Under the Lighthouse Dancing (1997)--Louise
Children of the Corn IV: The Gathering (1996)--Grace Rhodes(aka Deadly Harvest)
Timepiece (1996) (TV)--Mary Chandler
Persons Unknown (1996)--Molly
Bermuda Triangle (1996) (TV)--Amanda
Tank Girl (1995)--Jet Girl
The Custodian (1993)--Louise
Gross Misconduct (1993)--Jennifer Carter
Wide Sargasso Sea (1993)--Fanny Grey
Matinee (1993)--Shopping Cart Starlet
Brides of Christ (1991) (mini) TV Series--Frances Heffernan
Flirting (1991)--Janet Odgers
Home and Away (1991) TV Series--Julie Gibson
For Love Alone (1986)--Leo's Girlfriend
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