Naomi Watts from the movie Mulholland Dr..
Name: Naomi Watts
Born: 28 September 1968 (Age: 41)
Where: Shoreham, England
Height: 5' 5"
Awards: 1 Oscar and1 BAFTA nomination
Nickname: Queen of Remakes
Naomi Watts was born in Shoreham, England and was partially raised in Australia. For last more than eighteen years she has been working actively in the film industry. Her father worked with Pink Floyd and her mother was an antique dealer. She has an elder brother, who is a photographer and lives in somewhere in United States.
She started her career in Australia where she worked in television, she appeared in commercials, has been a part of hit soap opera, Home & Away. After she moved to Hollywood, she in fact has been pretty busy with her small assignments in movies, television soaps, shows. Mostly in small roles she got herself busy. Her first movie in USA was Tank Girl where she acted as the Jet Girl. Her first big break happened with David Lynch's Mulholland Dive in 2001.
Following the movie's premier in Cannes Film Festival, her performance in the dual role of Betty Elms/Diane Selwyn was much appreciated and she received her first award, as Best Actress and the National Board of Review award as Breakthrough Performance of the Year for her portrayl in the movie.
In 2002, Watt starred in that year's biggest grosser, The Ring which was a remake of a Japanese movie. Then she acted in movies like Ned Kelly opposite Orlando Bloom, Heath Ledger and Geoffrey Rush, as well as the Merchant-Ivory film Le Divorce with Kate Hudson. Her performance opposite Sean Penn and Benicio del Toro in director Alejandro González Iñárritu's 21 Grams earned Watts her first Academy Award nomination as Best Actress.
List of movies
1. The Birds
2. We Are All the Same
3. My Name Is Jody Williams
4. Dream House (2011)
5. You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger (2010)
6. Fair Game (2010) (completed)
7. Mother and Child (2009)
8. The International (2009/I)
9. Funny Games U.S. (2007)
10.Eastern Promises (2007)
11.The Painted Veil (2006)
12.Inland Empire (2006) (voice)
13. King Kong (2005)
14. King Kong: The Official Game of the Movie (2005) (VG) (voice)
15. Stay (2005/I) .... Lila Culpepper
16. The Ring Two (2005)
17. Ellie Parker (2005)
18. I Heart Huckabees (2004)
19. The Assassination of Richard Nixon (2004)
20. We Don't Live Here Anymore (2004)
21 Grams (2003)
22.Le divorce (2003)
23.Ned Kelly (2003)
24.The Outsider (2002) (TV)
25. Plots with a View (2002)
26. The Ring (2002/I)
27. Rabbits (2002) .... Suzie
28. Mulholland Dr. (2001)
29. Down (2001)
30. Ellie Parker (2001)
31. Never Date an Actress (2001) .... The shallow girlfriend
32.The Wyvern Mystery (2000) (TV) .... Alice Fairfield
33. Strange Planet (1999) .... Alice
34. The Hunt for the Unicorn Killer (1999) (TV) .... Holly Maddux
35. The Christmas Wish (1998) (TV) .... Renee
36. Babe: Pig in the City (1998) (voice)
37. Dangerous Beauty (1998) .... Giulia De Lezze
... aka "The Honest Courtesan" - UK, USA (working title)
# A House Divided (1998) .... Amanda
# Under the Lighthouse Dancing (1997) .... Louise
# Persons Unknown (1996) .... Molly
# Timepiece (1996) (TV) .... Mary Chandler
# Bermuda Triangle (1996) (TV) .... Amanda
# Children of the Corn: The Gathering (1996) (V) .... Grace Rhodes
# Tank Girl (1995) .... Jet Girl
# The Custodian (1993) .... Louise
# Gross Misconduct (1993) .... Jennifer Carter
# Wide Sargasso Sea (1993) .... Fanny Grey
# Matinee (1993) .... Shopping Cart Starlet
# "Home and Away" .... Julie Gibson (1 episode, 1991)
- Episode #1.777 (1991) TV episode .... Julie Gibson
# Flirting (1991) .... Janet Odgers
# "Brides of Christ" .... Frances Heffernan (1 episode, 1991)
- Ambrose (1991) TV episode .... Frances Heffernan
# "Hey Dad..!" .... Belinda Lawrence (2 episodes, 1990)
- Bulk Bill Dill (1990) TV episode .... Belinda Lawrence
- Eternal Quadrangle (1990) TV episode .... Belinda Lawrence
# For Love Alone (1986) .... Leo's Girlfriend
Mulholland Drive video
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