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Naomi Watts (natural September 28, 1968) is an English-born Australian actress and producer.

Watts was innate inside Shoreham-by-Sea, West Sussex, England, where she lived until a age of eight. Her parents, Peter & Myfanwy Watts got separated once she was 4 years old, & after she was sevener her father died. As punishment her father's dying, her mother relocated a personal to the town of Llangefni (more specifically Llanfawr Domestic, the district of Llangefni), around Northern Wales, where it swallow Naomi's grandparents, Hugh & Nikki Roberts, although her mother from time to time moved a personal about Wales & England, commonly to watch beau, however she universally ended higher giving to Llangefni. She lived there until she was Xiv. So, when you took a hike to Australia, her mother became positive that there was "the land of opportunities" and moved a personal to Sydney in 1982. Her grannie, Nikki, was Australian, which manufactured it gentler to obtain a documentation necessary, since Naomi & her personal were entitled to Australian citizenship.

Her father was the healthy engineer by owning Pink Floyd and her mother is described by Watts as a hippie "with passive-aggressive tendencies" who utilized to threaten to send her & her brother to surrogate care sequentially to convince her grandparents to require care of the personal, since her mother got there are no money when her father's passing.

Around Sydney, she attended many acting schools (& in the super 1st principles in the foremost school, she met Nicole Kidman, with whom she shared the taxicab residence from either class). Around 1986 she took a break from either acting & attend Japan to work when a model, however a own household budget was vain, & Watts describes it as one of a worst periods of her life, which lasted for astir iv months. Upon giving to Australithe, Watts went to function for a local department store and from there she went to act when adjunct fashion editor by using an Australian fashion magazine. She just returned to acting whenever the casual invitation from either the colleague to participate within the little play rekindled her passion for the scenic arts & prompted her to quit her job & dedicate herself totally to making it as an actress.

She 1st appeared around television commercial message then a drama series Home and Away in 1988 in the role of Julie Gibson. Her number 1 large break come sustaining a 1995 movie Tank Girl with the a portion of Jet Girl.

Inside 2001, Watts appeared in David Lynch's Mulholland Dr., a performance which won high praise. A quality & size of Watts' roles improved when Mulholland Dr., & she starred in the extremely successful America remake of The Ring, a Japanese horror picture. Within 2004 she received an Academy Award nomination for Best Actress for her performance in the film 21 Grams.

Selected Filmography
Home and Away (1988) (TV series) (1991) Flirting (1991) Wide Sargasso Sea (1993) Tank Girl (1995) Babe: Pig in the City (1998) (voice) Mulholland Dr. (2001) The Ring (2002) Ned Kelly (2003) Le Divorce (2003) 21 Grams (2003) ''We Don't Live Here Anymore (2004) The Assassination of Richard Nixon (2004) I ♥ Huckabees (2004) The Ring Two (2005) King Kong'' (2005)

Lynch's Latest High Voltage Lass
Rob Blackwelder interviews Naomi Watts about her work in "Mulholland Drive."

Three Continents Later, an Outsider Actress Finds Her Place
Two-part interview of actress Naomi Watts.

Naomi Watts at the 74th Annual Academy Awards
Three photos of the actress.

Doing Naked Goofy
Interview of Naomi Watts on the eve of the release of "Mulholland Drive."

Box Office Data for Naomi Watts
Films in which she has appeared and how they did at the box office, both domestic and worldwide.

Divine Thing : A Naomi Watts Fan Page
Photo gallery, articles, and news.

The Guardian - Naomi Watts
A single photo of the actress at the 2002 Oscars.

Regus London Film Festival - Naomi Watts lined up for new Gonzalez Inarritu film
The actress is slated to appear in the Mexican director's "21 Grams." Includes some quotes from Watts about David Lynch.

The Naomi Watts Page
Presents a brief biography and some links.

AskMen.com - Naomi Watts
Pictures, biography, and in-depth profile on the actress


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