Naomi Watts

 

Naomi Ellen Watts was born 28 September 1968. Following the move of her family to Australia in the early 1980s, Watts made her film debut with For Love Alone (1986). Later, she was a part of three television series, Hey Dad.. (1990), Brides of Christ(91), as well as Home and Away (91), and Flirting (1991). Watts was an unpromising actress when she first came to the United States. She acted in films with a small budget and then was a professional actress. This role started her rise to international prominence. Watts was later chosen to play a journalist who was tortured in The Ring (2002). In her role as a grieving mother in the Alejandro film 21 Grams, she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress. Her fame was growing when she was featured in I Heart Huckabees (2004). King Kong (2006), Eastern Promises ((2007)) and The International (2009). For her performance as Maria Bennett in the disaster film The Impossible (2012), Watts got another Academy Award nomination for Best Actress. In the 2010s, she starred in such films such as Birdman (2014) St. Vincent (2014), While We're Young (2015), The Glass Castle (2017) as well as Luce (2019). Watts was also a mainstay in blockbuster films, appearing in Divergent (2015)-2016.