Naomi Watts Biography
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Naomi Watts (born September 28, 1968) is an
English-born Australian actress and producer.
Watts was born in Shoreham-by-Sea, West
Sussex, England, where she lived until the age of eight. Her parents,
Peter and Myfanwy Watts had separated when she was four years old, and
when she was seven her father died. Following her father's death, her
mother relocated the family to the town of Llangefni (more specifically
Llanfawr Farm, a district of Llangefni), in Northern Wales, where they
lived with Naomi's grandparents, Hugh and Nikki Roberts, although her
mother occasionally moved the family around Wales and England, usually
to follow boyfriends, but she always ended up returning to Llangefni.
She lived there until she was 14. Then, during a trip to Australia, her
mother became convinced that there was "the land of opportunities" and
moved the family to Sydney in 1982. Her grandmother, Nikki, was
Australian, which made it easier to obtain the documentation necessary,
since Naomi and her family were entitled to Australian citizenship.
Her father was a sound engineer with Pink
Floyd and her mother is described by Watts as a hippie "with
passive-aggressive tendencies" who used to threaten to send her and her
brother to foster care in order to convince her grandparents to take
care of the family, since her mother had no money after her father's
passing.
In Sydney, she attended several acting
schools (and in the very first lesson in the first school, she met
Nicole Kidman, with whom she shared a taxi home from class). In 1986 she
took a break from acting and went to Japan to work as a model, but the
experience was fruitless, and Watts describes it as one of the worst
periods of her life, which lasted for about four months. Upon returning
to Australia, Watts went to work for a local department store and from
there she went to work as assistant fashion editor with an Australian
fashion magazine. She only returned to acting when a casual invitation
from a colleague to participate in a small play rekindled her passion
for the scenic arts and prompted her to quit her job and dedicate
herself completely to making it as an actress.
She first appeared in television
commercials and then the drama series Home and Away in 1988 in the role
of Julie Gibson. Her first big break came with the 1995 movie Tank Girl
with the part of Jet Girl.
In 2001, Watts appeared in David Lynch's
Mulholland Dr., a performance which won high praise but failed to gain
her an Academy Award nomination. The quality and size of Watts' roles
improved after Mulholland Dr., and she starred in the highly successful
US remake of The Ring, a Japanese horror movie. In 2004 she received an
Academy Award nomination for Best Actress for her performance in the
film 21 Grams.
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