Naomi Watts - Wikipedia. Naomi Ellen Watts (born 2. September 1. 96. 8) is an English actress and film producer.[1] She made her screen debut in the Australian drama film For Love Alone (1. Australian television series' Hey Dad.! Brides of Christ (1. Home and Away (1. Flirting (1. 99. 1).

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After moving to America, Watts appeared in films, including Tank Girl (1. Children of the Corn IV: The Gathering (1. Dangerous Beauty (1. Sleepwalkers (1. 99.

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After years as a struggling actress, Watts came to attention in David Lynch's psychological thriller Mulholland Drive (2. The following year she enjoyed box- office success with her role as Rachel Keller in The Ring (2. Japanese horror film. She then received nominations at the Academy Awards and the Screen Actors' Guild Awards in the Best Actress categories for her portrayal of Cristina Peck in Alejandro González Iñárritu's neo- noir. Watch Teacher Of The Year HIGH Quality Definitons on this page. Grams (2. 00. 3). Her subsequent films include David O.

Russell's comedy I Heart Huckabees (2. King Kong, the crime- thriller Eastern Promises (2. Tom Tykwer- directed thriller The International (2. Since then, Watts has portrayed Valerie Plame Wilson in the biographical drama Fair Game (2. Helen Gandy in Clint Eastwood's biographical drama J. Edgar (2. 01. 1). For her leading role as Maria Bennett in the disaster film The Impossible (2.

Academy Award and Screen Actors Guild Award for Best Actress and a nomination for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress. In 2. 00. 2, Watts was included in People magazine's 5. Most Beautiful People. In 2. 00. 6, she became a goodwill ambassador for Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS, which helps to raise awareness of AIDS- related issues. She has participated in several fundraisers for the cause, and she is presented as an inaugural member of AIDS Red Ribbon Awards. Early life. Watts was born 2.

September 1. 96. 8, in Shoreham, Kent, England.[2][3] She is the daughter of Myfanwy ("Miv") Edwards (née Roberts), an antiques dealer and costume and set designer,[2] and Peter Watts (1. Pink Floyd.[4][5] Miv was born in England but lived in Australia between the ages of one and seven. Watts' maternal grandfather was Welsh and her maternal grandmother was Australian.[6][7]Watts' parents divorced when she was four years old.[5][8] After the divorce, Watts and her elder brother, Ben Watts, moved several times across South East England with their mother.[9] Peter Watts left Pink Floyd in 1. Myfanwy were later reconciled. Two years later, in August 1. Notting Hill, of an apparent heroin overdose.[1.

Following his death, Watts' mother moved the family to Llanfawr Farm in Llangefni and Llanfairpwllgwyngyll,[1. Anglesey in North Wales, where they lived with Watts' maternal grandparents, Nikki and Hugh Roberts, for three years. During this time, Watts attended a Welsh language school, Ysgol Gyfun Llangefni.[1. She later said of her time in Wales: "We took Welsh lessons in a school in the middle of nowhere while everyone else was taking English. Wherever we moved, I would adapt and pick up the regional accent.

It's obviously significant now, me being an actress. Anyway, there was quite a lot of sadness in my childhood, but no lack of love."[1.

In 1. 97. 8, her mother remarried (though she would later be divorced again)[1. Watts and her brother then moved to Suffolk, where she attended Thomas Mills High School.[9] Watts has stated that she wanted to become an actress after seeing her mother performing on stage and from the time she watched the 1.

Fame.[5][1. 6]In 1. Watts was 1. 4, she moved to Sydney, New South Wales in Australia with her mother, brother and stepfather.[5][1. Myfanwy established a career in the burgeoning film business, working as a stylist for television commercials, then turning to costume design, ultimately working for the soap opera Return to Eden.[1.

After emigrating, Watts was enrolled in acting lessons by her mother; she auditioned for numerous television advertisements, where she met and befriended actress Nicole Kidman. Watts obtained her first role in the 1.

For Love Alone, based on the novel of the same name by Christina Stead, and produced by Margaret Fink.[1. In Australia, Watts attended Mosman High School and North Sydney Girls High School.[1. She failed to graduate from school, afterwards working as a papergirl, a negative cutter and managing a Delicacies store in Sydney's affluent North Shore.[1. She decided to become a model when she was 1. She signed with a models agency that sent her to Japan, but after several failed auditions, she returned to Sydney.[5] There, she was hired to work in advertising for a department store, that exposed her to the attention of Follow Me, a magazine which hired her as an assistant fashion editor.[5][1. A casual invitation to participate in a drama workshop inspired Watts to quit her job and to pursue her acting ambitions.[1.

Regarding her nationality, Watts has stated: "I consider myself British and have very happy memories of the UK. I spent the first 1.

England and Wales and never wanted to leave. When I was in Australia I went back to England a lot."[2. She also has expressed her ties to Australia, declaring: "I consider myself very connected to Australia, in fact when people say where is home, I say Australia, because those are my most powerful memories."[2. Career. 19. 86–2. 24 Jack Bauer Season 9. Early work and struggling career.

Watts' career began in television, where she made brief appearances in commercials.[1. The 1. 98. 6 film For Love Alone, set in the 1. Christina Stead's 1. She then appeared in two episodes of the fourth season of the Australian sitcom Hey Dad.! After a five- year absence from films, Watts met director John Duigan during the 1. Nicole Kidman's film Dead Calm and he invited her to take a supporting role in his 1.

Flirting.[1. 7][2. The film received critical acclaim and was featured on Roger Ebert's list of the 1. Also in 1. 99. 1, she took the part of Frances Heffernan, a girl who struggles to find friends behind the walls of a Sydney Catholic school,[2. Brides of Christ[2. Home and Away as the handicapped Julie Gibson.[2. Watts was then 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", a decision she later called "naïve".[1.

Watts then took a year off to travel, visiting Los Angeles and being introduced to agents through Kidman.[9][1. Encouraged, Watts decided to move to America, to pursue her career further.

In 1. 99. 3 she had a small role in the John Goodman film Matinee and temporarily returned to Australia to star in three Australian films: another of Duigan's pictures, Wide Sargasso Sea; the drama The Custodian; and had her first leading role in the film Gross Misconduct, as a student who accuses one of her teachers (played by Jimmy Smits) of raping her.[1. Watts then moved back to America for good but the difficulty of finding agents, producers and directors willing to hire her during that period frustrated her initial efforts.[1.

Though her financial situation never led her to taking a job out of the film industry, she experienced problems like being unable to pay the rent of her apartment and losing her medical insurance.[1. At first, everything was fantastic and doors were opened to me. But some people who I met through Nicole [Kidman], who had been all over me, had difficulty remembering my name when we next met.

There were a lot of promises, but nothing actually came off.