Naomi Ellen Watts born September 28 1968 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 and Home and Away 1991 and the film Flirting 1991 After moving to the United States Watts initially struggled as an actress taking roles in smallscale films until she starred in David Lynchs psychological thriller Mulholland Drive in 2001 as an aspiring actress This role started 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 griefstricken mother in Alejandro González Iñárritus film 21 Grams 2003 Her profile continued to grow 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 such films as Birdman 2014 St Vincent 2014 While Were Young 2015 The Glass Castle 2017 and Luce 2019 Watts also continued to act in blockbusters with appearances in the Divergent franchise 20152016 and she ventured into television with the Showtime mystery drama series Twin Peaks 2017 and the biographical limited series The Loudest Voice 2019 Watts is particularly known for her work in remakes and independent productions with dark or tragic themes as well as portrayals of characters that endure loss or suffering Description above from the Wikipedia article Naomi Watts licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia
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