1. Naomi Ellen Watts was born on 28 September 1968 and is a British actress.
96 Facts About Naomi Watts
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Ten years later, Watts moved to the United States, where she initially struggled as an actress.
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Naomi Watts took roles in small-scale films until she starred in her breakthrough role as an aspiring actress in David Lynch's mystery film, Mulholland Drive, in 2001.
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Naomi Watts played a tormented journalist in the horror remake The Ring.
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Naomi Watts was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance as a grief-stricken mother in Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu's film 21 Grams.
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Naomi Watts had starring roles in I Heart Huckabees, King Kong, Eastern Promises, and The International.
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Naomi Watts has since starred in Birdman, St Vincent, While We're Young, The Glass Castle, and Luce, and appeared in the Divergent franchise.
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Naomi Watts ventured into television with the third season of Lynch's mystery series Twin Peaks and the biographical miniseries The Loudest Voice.
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Naomi Watts then starred in the Netflix thriller series The Watcher, and portrayed Babe Paley in the anthology series Feud: Capote vs The Swans, for which she received a Primetime Emmy Award nomination.
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Naomi Watts is particularly known for her work in remakes and independent productions with dark or tragic themes, as well as for portrayals of characters who endure loss or suffering.
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Naomi Ellen Watts was born on 28 September 1968, in Shoreham, Kent, England.
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Naomi Watts is the daughter of Myfanwy Edwards, an antiques dealer and costume and set designer, and Peter Watts, a road manager and audio engineer who worked with Pink Floyd.
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Naomi Watts has said that she wanted to become an actress after seeing her mother performing on stage and from the time she watched the 1980 film Fame.
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In 1982, when Naomi Watts was 14, the family moved to Sydney, Australia.
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Naomi Watts turned to costume design, and worked for the soap opera Return to Eden.
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Naomi Watts was enrolled by her mother in acting lessons in Sydney.
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Naomi Watts auditioned for numerous television advertisements, where she met and befriended the young actress Nicole Kidman.
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Naomi Watts signed with a models agency that sent her to Japan, but after several failed auditions, she returned to Sydney.
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Naomi Watts began to work in advertising for a department store.
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Naomi Watts's career began in television, where she made brief appearances in commercials.
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Naomi Watts made her film debut in For Love Alone.
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At the 1989 premiere of her friend Nicole Kidman's film Dead Calm, Naomi Watts met John Duigan, who invited her to take a supporting role in his 1991 indie film Flirting.
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Naomi Watts had a recurring role in the soap opera Home and Away as the handicapped Julie Gibson.
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Naomi Watts was offered a role in the drama series A Country Practice but turned it down, not wanting to "get stuck on a soap for two or three years".
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Naomi Watts took a year off to travel, visiting Los Angeles and being introduced to agents through Kidman.
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Encouraged, Naomi Watts decided to move to the United States, to pursue her career further.
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Naomi Watts returned to Australia temporarily to star in three Australian films: another of Duigan's pictures, Wide Sargasso Sea; and the drama The Custodian.
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Naomi Watts had her first leading role in the film Gross Misconduct, as a student who accuses one of her teachers of raping her.
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Naomi Watts returned to Los Angeles and the US for good but had difficulty finding agents, producers and directors willing to hire her.
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Naomi Watts never worked outside the film industry, but had some tight times in which she was unable to pay the rent on time and lost her medical insurance.
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Naomi Watts played the lead role in the short-lived television series Sleepwalkers.
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In 2000, while David Lynch was developing the rejected pilot of Mulholland Drive as a feature film, Naomi Watts starred alongside Derek Jacobi, Jack Davenport and Iain Glen in the BBC TV film The Wyvern Mystery, an adaptation of the novel of the same name by Sheridan Le Fanu.
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Naomi Watts had some near misses for roles in her early career: she was considered for significant roles in such films as 1997's The Postman and The Devil's Advocate; all eventually went to other actresses.
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In 2002 Naomi Watts recalled her early career in an interview.
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Naomi Watts had lost a role she wanted in "Meet the Parents" in 2000.
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Naomi Watts referred to this again in a 2012 interview.
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Naomi Watts interviewed Watts after looking at her headshot, without having seen any of her previous work, and offered her the lead role.
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Naomi Watts portrayed Rachel Keller, a journalist investigating the strange deaths of her niece and other teenagers after they watched a mysterious videotape and received a phone call announcing their deaths in seven days.
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Naomi Watts's performance was praised by critics, including Paul Clinton of CNN.
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In 2003, Naomi Watts took the part of Julia Cook in Gregor Jordan's Australian film Ned Kelly, opposite Heath Ledger, Orlando Bloom and Geoffrey Rush.
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Naomi Watts portrayed Roxeanne de Persand, a poet who is pregnant and abandoned by her husband Charles-Henri de Persand.
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Naomi Watts became involved in a relationship with Paul Rivers, an academic mathematician who was critically ill.
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Naomi Watts reinvents herself with each performance, it's easy to forget how brilliant she is.
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In 2004, Naomi Watts starred alongside Mark Ruffalo in the independent film We Don't Live Here Anymore, based on short stories by Andre Dubus.
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Naomi Watts reunited with Sean Penn in The Assassination of Richard Nixon, playing the wife of the would-be presidential assassin Samuel Byck.
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Naomi Watts teamed up with Jude Law and Dustin Hoffman in David O Russell's ensemble comedy I Heart Huckabees.
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Naomi Watts headlined and produced the semi-autobiographical drama Ellie Parker, which depicted the struggle of an Australian actress in Hollywood.
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In 2005, Naomi Watts headlined the remake of King Kong as Ann Darrow.
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Naomi Watts was the first choice for the role, portrayed by Fay Wray in the original film, and no other actors were considered.
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In preparation for her role, Naomi Watts met with Wray, who was to make a cameo appearance and say the final line of dialogue.
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Naomi Watts was nominated for a Spike Video Game Award for Best Performance by a Female.
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At this point in her career, Naomi Watts said the following:.
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Naomi Watts is under pressure to marry and chooses a physician known as a bacteriologist.
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Naomi Watts is not prepared when her husband goes to Hong Kong, then a British colony, for work and then forces her to mainland China to a region suffering a cholera epidemic.
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Naomi Watts provided the voice of a small role, Suzie Rabbit, in David Lynch's psychological thriller Inland Empire.
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In David Cronenberg's Eastern Promises, Naomi Watts portrays a Russian-British midwife, opposite Viggo Mortensen.
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Naomi Watts delivers the baby of a drug-addicted 14-year old prostitute.
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Naomi Watts played a mother who, with her family, is held hostage by a pair of sociopathic teenagers.
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Naomi Watts next appeared in the drama Mother and Child, portraying the role of a lawyer who never knew her biological mother.
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Naomi Watts was nominated for the Best Actress award at the Australian Film Institute Awards and for the Independent Spirit Award for Best Supporting Female.
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Naomi Watts starred in The Impossible, a disaster drama based on the true story of Maria Belon and her family's experience of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami; she played the lead role, with her name changed to Maria Bennett.
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Naomi Watts obtained the FCCA Award for Best Actress in 2014 for her role.
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Naomi Watts portrayed the title role in Oliver Hirschbiegel's Diana, a biographical drama about the last two years of the life of Diana, Princess of Wales.
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Naomi Watts learned the accent by spending time with Russian women in a West Village spa during a six-week period.
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Naomi Watts earned a nomination for the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role.
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In While We're Young, Naomi Watts starred with Ben Stiller as a New York City-based married couple who begin hanging out with a couple in their 20s.
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That film was an arthouse success and Naomi Watts received praise for her on-screen chemistry with Stiller.
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Naomi Watts played rebel leader Evelyn Johnson-Eaton in Insurgent, the second film in The Divergent Series, which is based on Veronica Roth's best-selling young adult novel of the same name.
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Naomi Watts reprised her role in the series's third instalment, Allegiant, released on 18 March 2016, to negative reviews and lackluster box office sales.
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Naomi Watts starred in Gus Van Sant's mystery drama The Sea of Trees, opposite Matthew McConaughey, as the wife of an American man who attempts suicide in Mount Fuji's "Suicide Forest".
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In Demolition, directed by Jean-Marc Vallee and opposite Jake Gyllenhaal, Naomi Watts played a customer service representative and the interest of a grieving investment banker.
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Naomi Watts played Linda, the second wife of heavyweight boxer Chuck Wepner in the biographical sport drama The Bleeder, revolving around the life of Wepner and his 1975 fight with Muhammad Ali.
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Naomi Watts appeared in Twin Peaks, a limited event television series and a continuation of the 1990 show of the same name.
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Naomi Watts starred as "a therapist who begins to develop dangerous and intimate relationships with the people in her patients' lives" in the Netflix drama series Gypsy, and served as one of its executive producers.
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An adaptation of Jeannette Walls's best selling memoir of the same name, Naomi Watts played the nonconformist mother of the author.
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Naomi Watts next starred in the films Penguin Bloom, Boss Level, and This Is the Night.
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In 2022, Naomi Watts played a lead in Netflix's The Watcher as Nora Brannock alongside Bobby Cannavale, who played Dean Brannock.
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Naomi Watts served as the ambassador to Thierry Mugler's Angel fragrance from 2008 until 2011 when Eva Mendes overtook the role.
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Naomi Watts appeared in a campaign for Ann Taylor in 2010.
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Naomi Watts was announced as a new 'face' of L'Oreal in 2014.
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Naomi Watts founded the skincare company Onda Beauty in 2016 and appeared in a campaign for Fendi in 2020.
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In January 2021, it was announced that Naomi Watts was an early investor in Thirteen Lune, an e-commerce site focused on makeup, skincare, haircare and wellness products owned by people of color and ally brands.
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In October 2022, Naomi Watts launched Stripes, a beauty and wellness brand focused on menopause health.
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In October 2024, Naomi Watts was announced as an ambassador and designer for Coyuchi linen.
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Naomi Watts released her first book, Dare I Say It: Everything I Wish I'd Known About Menopause, on January 21,2025.
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Naomi Watts has used her high profile and celebrity to bring attention to the needs of people living with this disease.
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Naomi Watts has featured in campaigns for fundraising, events and activities, including the 21st Annual AIDS Walk.
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On 1 December 2009, Naomi Watts met United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon at a public event commemorating World AIDS Day 2009.
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In 2011, Naomi Watts attended a charity polo match in New York City along with Australian actors Hugh Jackman and Isla Fisher, which was intended to raise money to help victims of the 2010 Haiti earthquake.
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Naomi Watts has visited the St Vincent's Hospital in Sydney to meet some of the women the programme helps.
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In 2016, Naomi Watts collaborated with Sportscraft and children's charity Barnardos to produce a range of namesake coats, with a percentage of sales going to the charity, and was one of the public figures photographed by Italian photographer Fabrizio Ferri for Bulgari's digital campaign "Raise Your Hand".
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Naomi Watts converted to Buddhism after becoming interested in the religion during the shooting of The Painted Veil, and became a strong proponent of Transcendental Meditation.
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Naomi Watts had a relationship with Australian actor Heath Ledger from August 2002 to May 2004.
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In 2005, Naomi Watts began a relationship with American actor Liev Schreiber.
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Naomi Watts began dating American actor Billy Crudup in 2017, after they met on the set of the Netflix drama series Gypsy.
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In 2016, Naomi Watts became the honorary president of Glantraeth FC, a small football club in Malltraeth, Anglesey, Wales.