Naomi Watts
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Biography
Naomi Ellen Watts (born September 28, 1968) is a British actress. After her family moved to Australia, she made her film debut there in the drama For Love Alone (1986) and then appeared in three television series, Hey Dad..! (1990), Brides of Christ (1991), and Home and Away (1991), and the film Flirting (1991). After moving to the United States, Watts initially struggled as an actress, taking roles in small-scale films until she starred in David Lynch's psychological thriller Mulholland Drive in 2001 as an aspiring actress. This role started her rise to international prominence.
Watts then played a tormented journalist in the horror remake The Ring (2002). She was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance as a grief-stricken mother in Alejandro González Iñárritu's film 21 Grams (2003). Her profile continued to grow with starring roles in I Heart Huckabees (2004), King Kong (2005), Eastern Promises (2007), and The International (2009).
For her role as Maria Bennett in the disaster film The Impossible (2012), Watts received another Academy Award nomination for Best Actress. In the 2010s, she starred in such films as Birdman (2014), St. Vincent (2014), While We're Young (2015), The Glass Castle (2017), and Luce (2019). Watts also continued to act in blockbusters, with appearances in the Divergent franchise (2015–2016), and she ventured into television with the Showtime mystery drama series Twin Peaks (2017) and the biographical limited series The Loudest Voice (2019).
Watts is particularly known for her work in remakes and independent productions with dark or tragic themes, as well as portrayals of characters that endure loss or suffering.
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The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
E! True Hollywood Story
The Oscars
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
The Daily Show
Twin Peaks
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
The Early Show
Today
Celebrities Uncensored
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
Golden Globe Awards
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
BoJack Horseman
Vice
Babe: Pig in the City
Inland Empire
Movie 43
Insurgent
I ♥ Huckabees
The Memory Police
Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
I Am Heath Ledger
All's Fair
Allegiant
A Bloody Finger in Your Mouth
The Loudest Voice
Boss Level
Stay
The Hunt For The Unicorn Killer
The Glass Castle
Ophelia
21 Grams
FEUD
Sleepwalkers
J. Edgar
Luce
Demolition
King Kong
The Ring
The Wolf Hour
Penguin Bloom
Goodnight Mommy
Funny Games
Mulholland Drive
Infinite Storm
Gypsy
The Ring Two
Ellie Parker
The Impossible
Ellie Parker
The Book of Henry
Shut In
The Desperate Hour
The Watcher
Production Credits
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