Naomi Watts
Naomi Watts | |
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Born | Naomi Ellen Watts 28 September 1968 Shoreham, Kent, England |
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Years active | 1986–present |
Works | Full list |
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Partner | Liev Schreiber (2005–2016) |
Children | 2 |
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Relatives | Ben Watts (brother) |
Awards | Full list |
Naomi Ellen Watts (born 28 September 1968) is a British-Australian actress.[1] 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 small-scale films until she starred in David Lynch's psychological thriller Mulholland Drive in 2001 as an aspiring actress. The role began 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 grief-stricken mother in Alejandro González Iñárritu's film 21 Grams (2003). Her popularity continued to rise with starring roles in I Heart Huckabees (2004), King Kong (2005), Eastern Promises (2007), and The International (2009).
For her role as
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.
Early life and education
Naomi Ellen Watts was born on 28 September 1968, in Shoreham, Kent, England.[4][5] She is the daughter of Myfanwy (Miv) Edwards (née Roberts), an antiques dealer and costume and set designer,[4] and Peter Watts (1946–1976), a road manager and audio engineer who worked with Pink Floyd.[6][7] Watts's maternal grandfather was Welsh.[8][9]
Watts's parents divorced when she was four years old.[7][10] After the divorce, Watts and her older brother Ben Watts moved several times across South East England with their mother.[11] Peter Watts left Pink Floyd in 1974 and remarried in 1976. In August 1976, he was found dead in a flat in Notting Hill, of an apparent heroin overdose.[12][13]
Following his death, Watts's mother moved the family to Llanfawr Farm in
In 1982, when Watts was 14, she moved to Sydney, Australia with her mother, brother, and stepfather.[7][19] Myfanwy established a career in the burgeoning film business, working as a stylist for television commercials, then turning to costume design, ultimately working for the soap opera Return to Eden in which Naomi briefly cameoed as a model in two episodes.[12] After emigrating, Watts was enrolled in acting lessons by her mother; she auditioned for numerous television advertisements, where she met and befriended actress Nicole Kidman. Watts obtained her first role in the 1986 drama film, For Love Alone, based on the novel of the same name by Christina Stead, and produced by Margaret Fink.[12]
In Australia, Watts attended
She decided to become a model when she was 18. She signed with a models agency that sent her to Japan, but after several failed auditions, she returned to Sydney.[7] There, she worked in advertising for a department store, which led Follow Me magazine to hire her as an assistant fashion editor.[7][12] A casual invitation to participate in a drama workshop inspired Watts to quit her job and pursue acting.[12][21]
Despite her dual upbringing in both Britain and Australia, Watts does not consider herself Australian, but rather firmly British in regards to her nationality, stating that: "I consider myself British and have very happy memories of the UK. I spent the first 14 years of my life in England and Wales and never wanted to leave. When I was in Australia I went back to England a lot."[22]
Career
Early roles and struggling career (1986–2000)
Watts's career began in television, where she made brief appearances in commercials.
Watts then took a year off to travel, visiting Los Angeles and being introduced to agents through Kidman.[11][12] Encouraged, Watts decided to move to America, to pursue her career further. In 1993, she had a small role in the John Goodman film Matinee and temporarily returned to Australia to star in three Australian films: another of Duigan's pictures, Wide Sargasso Sea; the drama The Custodian; and had her first leading role in the film Gross Misconduct, as a student who accuses one of her teachers (played by Jimmy Smits) of raping her.[19] Watts then moved back to America for good but the difficulty of finding agents, producers and directors willing to hire her during that period frustrated her initial efforts.[12] Though her financial situation never led her to taking a job out of the film industry, she experienced problems like being unable to pay the rent of her apartment and losing her medical insurance.[12][29] "At first, everything was fantastic and doors were opened to me. But some people who I met through Nicole [Kidman], who had been all over me, had difficulty remembering my name when we next met. There were a lot of promises, but nothing actually came off. I ran out of money and became quite lonely, but Nic gave me company and encouragement to carry on."[30]
When I came to America there was so much promise of good stuff and I thought, I've got it made here. I'm going to kick ass. Then I went back to Australia and did one or two more jobs. When I returned to Hollywood, all those people who'd been so encouraging before weren't interested. You take all their flattery seriously when you don't know any better. I basically had to start all over again. I get offered some things without auditioning today, but back then they wouldn't even fax me the pages of a script because it was too much of an inconvenience. I had to drive for hours into the Valley to pick up three bits of paper for some horrendous piece of shit, then go back the next day and line up for two hours to meet the casting director who would barely give me eye contact. It was humiliating.
–Watts on her early struggles[21]
She then won a supporting role of "Jet Girl" in the futuristic 1995 film Tank Girl, after nine auditions.[7] The film was met with mixed reviews and flopped at the box office, although it has gone on to become something of a cult classic.[31] Throughout the rest of the decade, she took mostly supporting roles in films[32] and occasionally considered leaving the business, but: "there were always little bites. Whenever I felt I was at the end of my rope, something would come up. Something bad. But for me it was 'work begets work'; that was my motto."[11][29] In 1996, she starred alongside Joe Mantegna, Kelly Lynch and J. T. Walsh in George Hickenlooper's action-thriller Persons Unknown; alongside James Earl Jones, Kevin Kilner and Ellen Burstyn in the period drama Timepiece; in Bermuda Triangle, a TV pilot which was not picked up for a full series, where she played a former documentary filmmaker who disappears in the Bermuda Triangle;[33] and as the lead role in Children of the Corn IV: The Gathering, in which children in a small town become possessed under the command of a wrongfully murdered child preacher.[7]
In 1997, she starred in the Australian ensemble romantic drama
Much of her early career is filled with near misses in casting; she was up for significant roles in films such as 1997's
Rise to prominence (2001–2002)
In 1999, director David Lynch began casting for his psychological thriller Mulholland Drive. He interviewed Watts after looking at her headshot,[38] without having seen any of her previous work[39] and offered her the lead role.[38] Lynch later said about his selection of Watts, "I saw someone that I felt had a tremendous talent, and I saw someone who had a beautiful soul, an intelligence—possibilities for a lot of different roles, so it was a beautiful full package."[40] Conceived as a pilot for a television series, Lynch shot a large portion of it in February 1999, planning to keep it open-ended for a potential series. However, the pilot was rejected. Watts recalled thinking at the time, "just my dumb luck, that I'm in the only David Lynch programme that never sees the light of day."[11] Instead, Lynch filmed an ending in October 2000, turning it into a feature film which was picked up for distribution.
Mulholland Drive, also starring Laura Harring and Justin Theroux, premiered at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival to high critical acclaim and marked Watts's breakthrough. Reviewing her performance, Peter Bradshaw of The Guardian stated that "Watts's face metamorphoses miraculously from fresh-faced beauty to a frenzied, teary scowl of ugliness.";[41] Emanuel Levy wrote, "... Watts, in a brilliant performance, a young, wide-eyed and grotesquely cheerful blonde, full of high hopes to make it big in Hollywood."[42] The film received numerous awards and nominations, including the National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Actress and a nomination for the American Film Institute Award for Best Actress.[43] The surrealist film following the story of the aspiring actress Betty Elms, played by Watts, sparked controversy over its strong lesbian theme.[44][45]
Also in 2001, she starred in two short films, Never Date an Actress and
Established actress (2003–2007)
In 2003, Watts took the part of Julia Cook in Gregor Jordan's Australian film Ned Kelly opposite Heath Ledger, Orlando Bloom and Geoffrey Rush;[49] as well as starring in the Merchant-Ivory film Le Divorce, portraying Roxeanne de Persand, a poet who is pregnant and abandoned by her husband Charles-Henri de Persand. Roxeanne and her sister Isabel (played by Kate Hudson) dispute the ownership of a painting by Georges de La Tour with the family of Charles-Henri's lover. Entertainment Weekly gave the film a "C" rating and lamented Watts's performance: "I'm disappointed to report that Hudson and Watts have no chemistry as sisters, perhaps because Watts never seems like the expatriate artiste she's supposed to be playing".[50]
Conversely, her performance opposite Sean Penn and Benicio del Toro in Alejandro González Iñárritu's psychological drama 21 Grams (2003) earned Watts numerous award nominations, including her first nominations for the Academy Award for Best Actress, the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role and the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role.[51] In the story, told in a non-linear manner, she portrayed Cristina Peck, a grief-stricken woman living a suburban life after the killing of her husband and two children by Jack Jordan (Benicio del Toro), who became involved in a relationship with critically-ill academic mathematician Paul Rivers (Sean Penn). She has said of the nomination, "It's far beyond what I ever dreamed for – that would have been too far fetched".[52][53] The New York Times praised her: "Because Ms. Watts reinvents herself with each performance, it's easy to forget how brilliant she is. She has a boldness that comes from a lack of overemphasis, something actresses sometimes do to keep up with Mr. Penn".[54] The San Francisco Chronicle wrote: "Watts is riveting, but she's much better in scenes of extreme emotion than in those requiring subtlety."[55]
In 2004, Watts starred alongside Mark Ruffalo in the independent film We Don't Live Here Anymore,[12] based on short stories by Andre Dubus, which depicts the crisis of two married couples,[56] reunited with Sean Penn in The Assassination of Richard Nixon, playing the wife of the would-be presidential assassin Samuel Byck (Penn),[57] and teamed up with Jude Law and Dustin Hoffman in David O. Russell's ensemble comedy I Heart Huckabees.[58] She headlined and produced the semi-autobiographical drama Ellie Parker (2005), which depicted the struggle of an Australian actress in Hollywood.[59] The film began as a short film that was screened at the Sundance Film Festival in 2001 and was expanded into a feature-length production over the next four years. Film critic Roger Ebert praised Watts's performance: "The character is played by Watts with courage, fearless observation and a gift for timing that is so uncanny it can make points all by itself."[60]
Watts starred in the sequel to The Ring,
You'd better know why you're here as an actor ... I'm here to work out my shit, what my problems are and know who I am, so by cracking open these characters perhaps that shines a light on it a little bit better ... I know myself. I mean, of course I know myself better but the journey and search continue because hopefully we're evolving and growing all the time.[74]
The romantic drama The Painted Veil (2006), with Edward Norton and Liev Schreiber, featured Watts as the daughter of a lawyer who marries a man for his reputation as a physician and bacteriologist.[75] Comparing her portrayal with Greta Garbo's in the original movie, the San Francisco Chronicle wrote "Watts makes the role work on her own terms–her Kitty is more desperate, more foolish, more miserable and more driven... and her spiritual journey is greater.[76] Watts also provided the voice of a small role, Suzie Rabbit, in David Lynch's psychological thriller Inland Empire.[77] In the same year, she was announced as the new face of the jewelers David Yurman and completed a photoshoot which was featured in the 2007 Pirelli Calendar.[18]
Watts portrayed a Russian-British midwife who delivers the baby of a drug-addicted 14-year old prostitute in David Cronenberg's Eastern Promises (2007), with Viggo Mortensen.[78] In its review, Slate magazine observed that she "brings a wounded radiance to the overcurious midwife Anna. Though it's a bit of a one-note role, it's a note she's long specialised in, a kind of flustered moral aggrievement".[79] Eastern Promises grossed US$56 million worldwide, (equivalent to US$87.4 million in 2024).[80][81] She was one of the producers and starred as a mother who, along with her family, are held hostage by a pair of sociopathic teenagers in Michael Haneke's Funny Games (also 2007), a remake of Haneke's 1997 film of the same name.[82] The director said that he agreed to make the film on condition that he be allowed to cast Watts, according to UK's The Daily Telegraph,[83][84][85] but it went largely unnoticed by critics and audiences.[86][87] Nevertheless, Newsweek felt that Watts "hurls herself into her physically demanding role with heroic conviction".[88]
Biographical and independent films (2009–2014)
After a short hiatus from acting following the birth of her two children, Watts returned to acting in 2009, starring alongside
Her next film, the
Watts starred in The Impossible (2012), a disaster drama based on the true story of María Belón and her family's experience of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami; she played the lead role, with her name changed to Maria Bennett. The film was a critical darling, had the highest-grossing opening weekend for a film in Spain,[110] and made US$180.2 million (equivalent to $238.9 million in 2024) globally.[111] Deborah Young of The Hollywood Reporter stated that "Watts packs a huge charge of emotion as the battered, ever-weakening Maria whose tears of pain and fear never appear fake or idealised,"[112] while Justin Chang of Variety magazine remarked that she "has few equals at conveying physical and emotional extremis, something she again demonstrates in a mostly bedridden role."[113] Damon Wise of The Guardian felt that "Watts is both brave and vulnerable, and her scenes with the young Lucas [...] are among the film's best."[114] Watts earned nominations for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama and the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role, in addition to her second nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress.[115]
In
In Laurie Collyer's independent drama Sunlight Jr. (2013), Watts starred with Matt Dillon as a struggling working-class couple.[119][120][121] The San Francisco Chronicle, praising Watts and Dillon, wrote in its review for the film that they are "formidable actors at the top of their game here [...] exhibiting a remarkable chemistry".[122] Watts portrayed the title role in Oliver Hirschbiegel's Diana (her final film released in 2013),[115] a biographical drama about the last two years of the life of Diana, Princess of Wales. Released amid much controversy given its subject, the film was a critical flop.[123][124] James Berardinelli found the film to be a "dull, pointless" production and remarked that while Watts did a "decent job encapsulating the look and feel of Diana", her portrayal was "a two-dimensional recreation".[125]
Film and television work (2015–present)
Watts played rebel leader
Watts starred in
Like St. Vincent and While We're Young the previous year, Watts starred in two films—
Watts played Linda, the second wife of heavyweight boxer
Watts appeared in
She played Queen Gertrud in Ophelia. In 2019, Watts portrayed Gretchen Carlson in the Showtime miniseries The Loudest Voice based on the book The Loudest Voice in the Room about Roger Ailes's sexual harassment of Carlson.[163] She next starred in the films Penguin Bloom, Boss Level, and This Is the Night.[164][165][166]
In 2022, Watts played a lead in Netflix's The Watcher as Nora Brannock alongside Bobby Cannavale, who played Dean Brannock.
Other work
Watts received an endorsement deal with David Yurman jewelry.[167][168] She served as the ambassador to Thierry Mugler's Angel fragrance from 2008[169] until 2011 when Eva Mendes overtook the role.[170] The pair later coincidentally fronted a campaign for Pantene hair care products.[171] Watts also appeared in a campaign for Ann Taylor in 2010.[172] She was announced as a new 'face' of L'Oréal in 2014.[173] Watts also founded the skincare company Onda Beauty in 2016[174] and appeared in a campaign for Fendi in 2020.[175][176]
In January 2021, it was announced that Watts was an early investor in Thirteen Lune, an e-commerce site focused on makeup, skincare, haircare and wellness products owned by people of color and ally brands.[177]
Philanthropy
In 2006, Watts became a goodwill ambassador for Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS, which helps raise awareness of issues relating to the disease. She has used her high profile and celebrity to bring attention to the needs of people living with this disease.[178] Watts has featured in campaigns for fundraising, events and activities, including the 21st Annual AIDS Walk.[179] On 1 December 2009, Watts met United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon at a public event commemorating World AIDS Day 2009.[180]
In 2011, Watts attended a charity polo match in New York City along with Australian actors
In 2016, Watts collaborated with
Personal life
Watts converted to Buddhism after becoming interested in the religion during the shooting of The Painted Veil (2006), and became a strong proponent of Transcendental Meditation.[186][187]
Watts had a relationship with Australian actor Heath Ledger from August 2002 to May 2004.[188] In 2005, Watts began a relationship with American actor Liev Schreiber. Their first son was born in 2007, and their second child was born in 2008.[189][190][191] On 26 September 2016, Watts and Schreiber announced their split after 11 years together.[192] Watts began dating American actor Billy Crudup in 2017, after they met on the set of the Netflix drama series Gypsy.[193] The couple married on June 9, 2023.[194][195]
In 2016, Watts became the honorary president of Glantraeth F.C., a small football club in Malltraeth, Anglesey, Wales. The club is near her grandparents' farm, where she spent time as a child.[196]
Filmography and accolades
See also
- List of British actors
- List of British Academy Award nominees and winners
- List of actors with Academy Award nominations
- List of actors with two or more Academy Award nominations in acting categories
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External links
- Naomi Watts at IMDb
- Naomi Watts at People.com
- Naomi Watts at UNAIDS.org
- Naomi Watts on Instagram