Naomi Watts was born 28th September 1968 and 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), 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. The role began 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 popularity continued to rise 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 films including Birdman (2014), St. Vincent (2014), While We’re Young (2015), The Glass Castle (2017), and Luce (2019). Watts also appeared in the Divergent franchise (2015–2016), and she ventured into television with the Showtime mystery series Twin Peaks (2017) and the biographical miniseries The Loudest Voice (2019). In 2022, she began starring in the Netflix thriller series The Watcher. source
