FILMOGRAPHY

2006] The Painted Veil
2005] King Kong
2004] The Ring 2
2004] Stay
2004] Assassination of Richard Nixon
2004] I Heart Huckabee's
2004] We Don't Live Here Anymore
2003] 21 Grams
2003] Le Divorce
2003] Ned Kelly
2002] Rabbits
2002] The Outsider (TV)
2002] Plots with a View
2002] The Ring
2001] Mulholland Dr.
2001] Down
2001] Ellie Parker
2000] The Wyvern Mystery (TV)
1999] Strange Planet
1999] Hunt for the Unicorn Killer (TV) 1998] A House Divided
1998] Christmas Wish (TV)
1998] Babe: Pig in the City (voice)
1998] Dangerous Beauty
1997] "Sleepwalkers"
1997] Under the Lighthouse Dancing
1996] Persons Unknown
1996] Timepiece (TV)
1996] Children of the Corn IV (V)
1996] Bermuda Triangle (TV)
1995] Tank Girl
1993] The Custodian
1993] Gross Misconduct
1993] Wide Sargasso Sea
1993] Matinee
1991] "Home and Away"
1991] "Brides of Christ" (mini)
1991] Flirting
1986] For Love Alone

LINKS

IMDB
Simply Naomi
Naomiwatts.com

CONTACT

Naomi Watts
C/O Creative Artists Agency
9830 Wilshire Blvd.
Beverly Hills, CA 90212-1825

Born 28 September 1968 Shoreham, England, UK

Her father, Peter Watts, was a rock music technician (he worked as sound engineer for Pink Floyd) and her parents divorced when she was four. Naomi lived with her grandparents in Mold for several years. Her father died when she was 10 years old, 4 years later Naomi & her mum relocated to Australia.

Watts starred in a short film called "Ellie Parker" (2001) directed by Tank Girl co-star & friend Scott Cofey (who also appeared in Mulholland Dr). It screen at Sundancet & was about an Australian actress trying to carve a career in L.A.

Watts first hit Australian screens in a TV commercial as the girl who turned down Tom Cruise for her mum's lamb roast.

Watts on Nicole's encouragement:
"She was always very encouraging. When the chips were down and I was thinking of throwing in the towel, Nicole would tell me to hang in there, that all it takes is one lucky break."

Watts on doing intense psychodramas:
"I know I keep on doing these roles, but they just interest me. I love playing out the human struggle. I like playing someone questioning their situation and the surroundings they're in. Fear is a really good emotion to play."

Watts on her big brother, photographer Ben Watts:
"I've never shared as much with another human being as I have with him. I'm a tomboy now. I always want to fit in with his group, so I climbed trees and played with lead soldiers. But I'm a woman's woman. I never understood women who don't have women friends."

Watts on aussie mates Nicole & Rebecca:
"Nic is a fantastic woman who has many layers. We see each other in the most intimate of times when we're just hanging out, and we have naughty wicked senses of humor. Our friendship has so much life to it before Hollywood even came into the picture. We definitively go to glamorous dinner parties, but we can also sit in a room and motor mouth each other. With Rebecca also-it's a three-way friendship."

Watts of working with Kidman on Flirting:
"Nicole had done Dead Calm and been to America a few times, I just remember picking her brain and being completely fascinated with her life."

Nicole on Naomi:
"Altogether she is pretty fabulous, but she has the most amazing blue eyes - they help her as an actress. Everything's wonderful for Naomi now. She's going to have a massive career."

Watts on the speech Nicole gave when presenting her the 2001 Movieline Break-through of the Year Award:
"It was part roasting and part flattery, which is the Aussie way. In fact, hers is more roasting than flattery-that's why we're friends. We grew up in a culture where you don't really trust people who blow smoke up your ass. That combination is what made the speech so genuine. It was a tiny award, but felt like I was at the fucking Oscars. I was doing everything in my power not to cry. So, I was looking at Nicole, thinking, 'You bitch."

Naomi on doing the masturbation scene in Mulholland Dr:
"All I could do was cry because I was so mortified and humiliated. It was really difficult, so we kept reshooting it. It felt pretty degrading. But since it felt so true and correct for the character, I was totally up for it. I trusted David 100% and it worked. I was putty in his hands and there was NOTHING I wouldn't do for him and I say that with total conviction. Unfortunately you can't do that all the time"

Naomi on her success:
"To dream for this back when I was a little girl would have seemed too grand, too high. It doesn't happen to many people, and that's why I'm just so fucking grateful. I'm knocking on so much wood right now, my knuckles are not healing."

Randa Haines director of The Outsider comments on Naomi:
"I didn't see Mulholland Drive until after we had finished (shooting). It was so fun to watch because for me, she was this very sane, proper woman and then to see this other performance that goes from A to Z in terms of every kind of expression of sexuality-I actually laughed. It was so wonderful and funny to see her cutting loose. Naomi doesn't have any illusions about the craziness of the business. She knows it's crazy. Naomi is so grounded and so solid as a person, and I think all of that works so well for her character in The Outsider. It's very challenging to play somebody who has a really deep faith and not to seem prissy or prim or preachy, and Naomi never does."

Watts on bring recognised:
"I don't really get recognised. Ever. I look like a completely different person when I just wake up and get my tracky daks (tracksuit pants) on. I blend well. I'm not someone who pops out of the crowd, unless I'm made up and I know I'm going to be photographed at a premiere or something."

Watts on David Lynch:
"I thought he'd be a dark, brooding kind of guy who wouldn't talk much. I didn't think he would have such an extraordinarily cheeky, witty sense of humor. And he was so open and warm and compassionate. I thought, "this is the guy who creates all those dark, twisted characters in those abstract movies? He's just an incredibly charming, highly spirited human being who is great to be around, and everybody shared that opinion. He's got one of the funniest senses of humor I've ever experienced in a man. A real dry wit, but incredibly mischievous at the same time. We teased each other the whole time"

David Lynch on Naomi:
"She's intelligent, funny, beautiful and cute at the same time. She definitely has a presence, but she's not on a strange star trip."

Watts describing just one of many casting nightmares:
"I got to meet a really fancy director, and I'm not gonna say his name and it was a big coup that I got to meet him. I'd flown back from New York to meet him. I'd cancelled theater tickets and I really couldn't afford to do that, it was a great expense and I was really looking forward to it, as well. But, no, you've got this meeting and it's a big thing, do not miss it. So I flew back and anyway I think I was the last person that he saw that day. I was reading and I remember stopping the scene at one point because I had a question and I looked up and he was sleeping. And I was like mortified, absolutely horrified.

Naomi on 21 Grams:
"To me it's about love, hope, redemption, guilt, grief. It covers a lot of things. It answers and addresses the bigger questions in life. It's effective and I'm very proud of it."

Naomi on knowing what she wants:
"I think I have better taste now than I did then. I've done movies almost back to back for the past year and a half, and I'm not getting talked into anything for anyone — it has to be my decision. That's one of the lucky things about getting the success later on. I know how I want to dress, I know what kind of house I want to live in, I just know more about myself, and that's true about the roles I want to play and what parts of myself I want to express. You're just more in touch with yourself. I think 50% of talent is choosing the right projects. You don’t want to get seduced into doing something just because it will make a lot of money, and you don’t want to get repetitive in what you do. Since it took me so long to get here, I just want to do whatever I can to keep hanging on a bit longer. I think the panic of not working for ten years is still very much alive in me, and I’m now starting to trust it a little bit and thinking, ‘okay, I’ve got a little bit of a shot at this."