Naomi Watts

Born: Naomi Watts
Sept. 28, 1968,
Shoreham, England, UK

Currently Resides:
Los Angeles, Ca

Father:
Peter Watts, sound engineer and tour manager for Pink Floyd until 1974. Left when Naomi was four years old. Died when she was ten.

Brother: Ben Watts

Born in Britain and moved toAustralia at age 14.

Is a vegetarian.

First film role in For Love Alone (1986)

Ex-beau:
Heath Ledger.

     Born in England, Naomi Watts lost her father when she was only ten years old, and four years later, relocated to Australia with her mom and began to study acting. Eventually, she began going on auditions (where she met her best friend Nicole Kidman) and landed her first film role in For Love Alone (1986.) Watts enjoyed her first substantial part alongside best pal, Kidman, in Flirting (1991.) Cast as a snobby schoolgirl, the teen actress made an impression, and her career was born.
     After several unremarkable roles in Australia and then Hollywood, she was cast in David Lynch's Mulholland Drive. Her dual role as perky wannabe Betty Elms and the cynical Diane Selwyn provided Watts with rich and complex material that she skillfully handled.
      Watts displayed a similar charisma in the Sundance-screened short Ellie Parker (2001.) Casting agents and directors began to take notice following this one-two punch and Watts found herself being offered choice roles. She starred as a frontier widow who harbors an outlaw in the Showtime original, The Outsider (2001) and played a pair of journalists, first as a TV newswoman investigating a rash of elevator accidents in Down (2001) and then as a reporter who discovers a cursed videotape in the thriller The Ring (2002).