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Naomi Watts

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5.4

  • 1968 - Present Day

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 September 28th, 1968, 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 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. Though ignored for an Oscar nomination, Watts's tour-de-force dual performance earned her numerous accolades and critics' awards, igniting her career. Working steadily in the wake of Mulholland Drive, Watts scored a box-office as well as critical success a year later with The Ring (2002), the Hollywood remake of the Japanese horror blockbuster. Starring Watts as an intrepid reporter investigating the origins of a lethal videotape, The Ring overcame studio doubts to become a sleeper hit, solidifying Watts's new star status. Watts subsequently donned period dress for the Showtime western The Outsider (2002), and to co-star alongside fellow Aussie Heath Ledger in The Kelly Gang (2003). Balancing her genre work with potentially headier fare guided by notable directors, Watts also appeared with Kate Hudson, Glenn Close and Stockard Channing in the Merchant-Ivory romantic comedy Le Divorce (2003), and won a leading role opposite formidable actors Sean Penn and Benicio Del Toro in Alejandro González Iñárritu's 21 Grams (2003).

Birthday: 1968-09-28

Born At: Shoreham - Kent, England - UK

Casted In:

King Kong
254
21 Grams
470
The Ring
565
The Assassination of Richard Nixon
842
Mulholland Drive
1018
I ♥ Huckabees
1599
Eastern Promises
2252
The International
4959
Stay
8066
Funny Games
8461
Dangerous Beauty
8583
Tank Girl
9067
Le Divorce
9499
The Ring Two
10320
Ned Kelly
10544
Undertaking Betty
10918
The Painted Veil
14202
The Wyvern Mystery
14730
Ellie Parker
16548
Down
19058
Flirting
21828
We Don't Live Here Anymore
23601
Matinee
25389
Children of the Corn IV: The Gathering
25750
Mother and Child
37080
You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger
38031
Fair Game
38363
The Christmas Wish
44349
Rabbits
44351
Strange Planet
49584
Persons Unknown
52215
The Outsider
63502
Dream House
69668
Lo imposible
80278
Timepiece
80807
Woody Allen: A Documentary
81167
King Kong: Peter Jackson's Production Diaries
82864
Movie 43
87818
J. Edgar
88794
Adore
111190
Diana
118289
Recreating the Eighth Wonder: The Making of 'King Kong'
121251
The Hunt for the Unicorn Killer
125990
The Bermuda Triangle
134308
Under the Lighthouse Dancing
147169
Gross Misconduct
151923
Sunlight Jr.
173908
Mulholland Dr.
185789
Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
194662
The Making of: Mulholland Drive
205803
St. Vincent
239563
While We're Young
252512
Holland, Michigan
257094
Insurgent
262500
Allegiant
262504
For Love Alone
263375
The Custodian
271205
The Sea of Trees
291351
3 Generations
300667
Demolition
303991
Shut In
329981
The Glass Castle
336000
Chuck
373546
The Book of Henry
382614
Vice
429197
Mulholland Drive Pilot
435562
Sleepwalkers
573716

Crewed In:

Funny Games
8461
The Painted Veil
14202
Adore
111190
3 Generations
300667
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