Naomi Watts
Biography
Naomi
Watts had already been a working actress for over a decade when
she earned notice as a promising newcomer in David Lynch's Cannes
Film Festival prizewinner Mulholland Drive (2001).
Born
in Britain and raised in Australia, Watts began acting in her teens,
landing her first film role in For Love Alone (1986). Watts subsequently
appeared with future Hollywood headliners Nicole Kidman and Thandie
Newton in John Duigan's disarming teen romance Flirting (1991).
Watts's next film with Duigan, Wide Sargasso Sea (1992), was not
so well received. After her first taste of Hollywood with Joe Dante's
schlock movie homage Matinee (1992), Watts nabbed a starring role
as Jimmy Smits's disturbed student in George Miller's little seen
courtroom drama Gross Misconduct (1993). Watts then starred as Jet
Girl to Lori Petty's Tank Girl (1995), but the science fiction fantasy
suffered an ignominious box office fate. After a series of TV movies
and thrillers, including Sleepwalkers (1997) and Children of the
Corn IV (1996), Watts appeared in Marshall Herskovitz's high-toned
Venetian courtesan costumer Dangerous Beauty (1998) and successful
TV docudrama The Hunt for the Unicorn Killer (1999).
Watts's
breakthrough finally arrived when David Lynch cast her in his ABC
pilot Mulholland Drive. Though ABC canceled the project in 1999
after Lynch turned in a typically mood-drenched work, StudioCanal
financed its transformation into a feature that debuted to acclaim
at Cannes in 2001. A tortured-comic Los Angeles dreamscape akin
to Lost Highway, Mulholland Drive featured Watts as the blonde half
of a female duo caught in a mystery of shifting identities. Drawing
attention for her not-for-network TV love scene with co-star Laura
Harring, Watts also earned praise as a rising "new" actress.
Naomi Watts Filmography
The Painted Veil (2006)
.... Kitty
King Kong (2005) .... Ann Darrow
Stay (2005) .... Lila Culpepper
The Ring Two (2005) .... Rachel Keller
Ellie Parker (2005) .... Ellie Parker
I Heart Huckabees (2004) .... Dawn Campbell
... aka I Love Huckabees (USA: alternative title)
The Assassination of Richard Nixon (2004) .... Marie Bicke
We Don't Live Here Anymore (2004) .... Edith Evans
21 Grams (2003) .... Cristina Peck
Divorce, Le (2003) .... Roxeanne de Persand
Ned Kelly (2003) .... Julia Cook
... aka Ned Kelly: Public Enemy No. 1 (Philippines: English title:
poster title)
The Outsider (2002) (TV) .... Rebecca Yoder
Plots with a View (2002) .... Meredith
... aka Grabgeflüster (Germany: video title)
... aka Grabgeflüster - Liebe kann Särge versetzen (Germany)
... aka Grabgeflüster - Liebe versetzt Särge (Germany)
... aka Plotz with a View (UK)
... aka Undertaking Betty (USA)
The Ring (2002) .... Rachel Keller
Rabbits (2002) .... Suzie
Mulholland Dr. (2001) .... Betty Elms/Diane Selwyn
Down (2001) .... Jennifer Evans
... aka The Shaft (USA: video title)
Ellie Parker (2001) .... Ellie Parker
Never Date an Actress (2001) .... The shallow girlfriend
The Wyvern Mystery (2000) (TV) .... Alice Fairfield
Strange Planet (1999) .... Alice
The Hunt for the Unicorn Killer (1999) (TV) .... Holly Maddux
The Christmas Wish (1998) (TV) .... Renee
Babe: Pig in the City (1998) (voice) .... Additional Voices
Dangerous Beauty (1998) .... Guila De Lezze
... aka The Honest Courtesan (UK) (USA: working title)
... aka A Destiny of Her Own (Australia)
A House Divided (1998) .... Amanda
"Sleepwalkers" (1997) TV Series .... Kate Russell
Under the Lighthouse Dancing (1997) .... Louise
Persons Unknown (1996) .... Molly
Timepiece (1996) (TV) .... Mary Chandler
Children of the Corn IV: The Gathering (1996) (V) .... Grace Rhodes
... aka Deadly Harvest
Bermuda Triangle (1996) (TV) .... Amanda
Tank Girl (1995) .... Jet Girl
Gross Misconduct (1993/I) .... Jennifer Carter
... aka Gross Indecency
Wide Sargasso Sea (1993) .... Fanny Grey
Matinee (1993) .... Shopping Cart Starlet
The Custodian (1993) .... Louise
"Home and Away" (1988) TV Series .... Julie Gibson (1991)
"Brides of Christ" (1991) (mini) TV Series .... Frances
Heffernan
Flirting (1991) .... Janet Odgers
For Love Alone (1986) .... Leo's Girlfriend |
