Naomi Watts

Naomi Watts
Naomi Watts
	Watts at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival
Born	Naomi Ellen Watts; 28 September 1968 (age 56); Shoreham, Kent, Ingland
Thrift	Actress
Years active	1986–present
Pairtner(s)	Liev Schreiber (2005–2016)
Bairns	2
Kin	Ben Watts (brither)

Naomi Ellen Watts (born 28 September 1968) is an Inglis actress an film producer.^[1] She made her screen debut in the Australian drama film For Love Alone (1986) an then appeared in the Australie telly series' Hey Dad..! (1990), Brides of Christ (1991), Home and Away (1991), an the comin-o-age comedy-drama film Flirting (1991). Efter muiving tae the Unitit States, Watts appeared in films, includin Tank Girl (1995), Children of the Corn IV: The Gathering (1996), an Dangerous Beauty (1998), and had the lead role in the television series Sleepwalkers (1997–1998).

Efter years as a strugglin actress, Watts came tae attention in David Lynch's psychological thriller Mulholland Drive (2001). The follaein year, she enjoyed box-office success wi her role as Rachel Keller in The Ring (2002), the remak o a successfu Japanese horror film. She then received nominations at the Academy Awairds and the Screen Actors' Guild Awairds in the Best Actress categories for her portrayal o Cristina Peck in Alejandro González Iñárritu's neo-noir 21 Grams (2003). Her subsequent films include David O. Russell's comedy I Heart Huckabees (2004), King Kong (2005), a remak o the 1933 film o the same name, the crime-thriller Eastern Promises (2007), an the Tom Tykwer-directit thriller The International (2009). Syne then, Watts has portrayed Valerie Plame Wilson in the biografical drama Fair Game (2010) an Helen Gandy in Clint Eastwood's biografical drama J. Edgar (2011). For her leadin role as Maria Bennett in the disaster film The Impossible (2012), she received forder nominations for the Academy Awaird an Screen Actors Guild Awaird for Best Actress an a nomination for the Gowden Globe Awaird for Best Actress.

In 2002, Watts wis includit in People magazine's 50 Maist Beautiful Fowk. In 2006, she becam a Goodwill Ambassador for Jynt Unitit Naitions Programme on HIV/AIDS, that helps tae raise awareness o AIDS-relatit issues. She haes pairticipatit in several fundraisers for the cause, an she is presentit as an inaugural member o AIDS Reid Reebin Awairds.

Filmografie

Film

Year	Film	Role	Notes
000000001986-01-01-00001986	For Love Alone	Leo's girlfriend	Film debut
000000001991-01-01-00001991	Flirting	Janet Odgers
000000001993-01-01-00001993	Matinee	Shopping Cart Starlet
000000001993-01-01-00001993	Wide Sargasso Sea	Fanny Grey
000000001993-01-01-00001993	Gross Misconduct	Jennifer Carter
000000001993-01-01-00001993	The Custodian	Louise
000000001995-01-01-00001995	Tank Girl	Jet Girl
000000001996-01-01-00001996	Children of the Corn IV: The Gathering	Grace Rhodes
000000001996-01-01-00001996	Persons Unknown	Molly
000000001997-01-01-00001997	Under the Lighthouse Dancing	Louise
000000001998-01-01-00001998	A House Divided	Amanda	Short film
000000001998-01-01-00001998	Dangerous Beauty	Guila De Lezze
000000001998-01-01-00001998	Babe: Pig in the City	Addeetional vyces
000000001999-01-01-00001999	Strange Planet	Alice
000000002001-01-01-00002001	Never Date an Actress	The shallae girlfriend	Short film
000000002001-01-01-00002001	Ellie Parker	Ellie Parker	Short film
000000002001-01-01-00002001	Down	Jennifer Evans	An aa released as The Shaft
000000002001-01-01-00002001	Mulholland Dr.	Betty Elms/Diane Selwyn
000000002002-01-01-00002002	Rabbits	Suzie
000000002002-01-01-00002002	The Ring	Rachel Keller
000000002002-01-01-00002002	Plots with a View	Meredith	An aa released as Undertaking Betty
000000002003-01-01-00002003	Ned Kelly	Julia Cook
000000002003-01-01-00002003	Le Divorce	Roxeanne de Persand
000000002003-01-01-00002003	21 Grams	Cristina Peck
000000002004-01-01-00002004	We Don't Live Here Anymore	Edith Evans
000000002004-01-01-00002004	The Assassination of Richard Nixon	Marie Andersen Bicke
000000002004-01-01-00002004	I Heart Huckabees	Dawn Campbell
000000002005-01-01-00002005	Ellie Parker	Ellie Parker
000000002005-01-01-00002005	The Ring Two	Rachel Keller
000000002005-01-01-00002005	Stay	Lila Culpepper
000000002005-01-01-00002005	King Kong	Ann Darrow
000000002006-01-01-00002006	Inland Empire	Suzie Rabbit	Vyce role
000000002006-01-01-00002006	The Painted Veil	Kitty Fane
000000002007-01-01-00002007	Eastern Promises	Anna Khitrova
000000002007-01-01-00002007	Funny Games	Ann Farber
000000002009-01-01-00002009	The International	Eleanor Whitman
000000002009-01-01-00002009	Mother and Child	Elizabeth Joyce
000000002010-01-01-00002010	You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger	Sally
000000002010-01-01-00002010	Fair Game	Valerie Plame Wilson
000000002011-01-01-00002011	Dream House	Ann Patterson
000000002011-01-01-00002011	J. Edgar	Helen Gandy
000000002012-01-01-00002012	The Impossible	Maria Bennett^[2]
000000002013-01-01-00002013	Movie 43	Samantha	Segment: "Homeschooled"
000000002013-01-01-00002013	Adore	Lil
000000002013-01-01-00002013	Sunlight Jr.	Melissa
000000002013-01-01-00002013	Diana	Diana, Princess of Wales
000000002013-01-01-00002013	The Last Impresario	Hersel	Documentary, an aa associate producer.
2014	St. Vincent	Daka
2014	Birdman	Lesley
000000002014-01-01-00002014	While We're Young	Cornelia
000000002015-01-01-00002015	The Divergent Series: Insurgent	Evelyn Johnson-Eaton	Post-production
000000002015-01-01-00002015	The Sea of Trees	Joan Brennan	Post-production
000000002015-01-01-00002015	Demolition		Filmin

Televeesion

Year	Film	Role	Notes
000000001986-01-01-00001986	Return to Eden	Model	1 episode
000000001990-01-01-00001990	Hey Dad..!	Belinda Lawrence	2 episodes
000000001991-01-01-00001991	Brides of Christ	Frances Heffernan	Miniseries
000000001991-01-01-00001991	Home and Away	Julie Gibson	19 episodes
000000001996-01-01-00001996	Bermuda Triangle	Amanda
000000001996-01-01-00001996	Timepiece	Mary Chandler
000000001997-01-01-00001997–98	Sleepwalkers	Kate Russell	9 episodes
000000001998-01-01-00001998	The Christmas Wish	Renee
000000001999-01-01-00001999	The Hunt for the Unicorn Killer	Holly Maddux
000000002000-01-01-00002000	The Wyvern Mystery	Alice Fairfield
000000002002-01-01-00002002	The Outsider	Rebecca Yoder
000000002014-01-01-00002014	BoJack Horseman	Hersel	1 episode

References

↑ Pringle, Gill (30 Mairch 2015). "Naomi Watts on 'While We're Young', her roots and being a mum". The Independent. Archived frae the original on 31 Mairch 2019. Retrieved 30 Apryle 2015. The truth is that I've spent more time in America out of all three countries. I spent the first 14 years in England, just under 10 in Australia and then the rest in America. I've still got only one passport and that's British and my mum still lives between there and Australia. I feel very much a part of both countries.
↑ "Naomi Watts – Filmography". The New York Times. Retrieved 27 August 2010.

[1] Pringle, Gill (30 Mairch 2015). "Naomi Watts on 'While We're Young', her roots and being a mum". The Independent. Archived frae the original on 31 Mairch 2019. Retrieved 30 Apryle 2015. The truth is that I've spent more time in America out of all three countries. I spent the first 14 years in England, just under 10 in Australia and then the rest in America. I've still got only one passport and that's British and my mum still lives between there and Australia. I feel very much a part of both countries.

[2] "Naomi Watts – Filmography". The New York Times. Retrieved 27 August 2010.

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