- Naomi Ellen Watts
- 28 September 1968
- Shoreham, Kent, England; raised in Australia
- Queen of Remakes
- "I get offered some things without auditioning today, but back then they wouldn't even fax me the pages. 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." (Interview Magazine, November, 2001)
- Once appeared in an Australian television commercial turning down a date with Tom Cruise for her mum's lamb roast.
- Best friends with Nicole Kidman, since a casting call for a commercial when they were girls.
- Breakthrough performance in David Lynch's enigmatic MULHOLLAND DRIVE (2001)
- Father: Peter Watts, sound engineer for Pink Floyd until his death in 1974
- Mother: Myfanwy (Miv) Watts, Welch; interior designer
Parents divorced when Naomi was 4 - Brother: Ben, photographer
- Son: Alexander Pete Schrieber, b. 2007; father is Liev Schrieber
- Heath Ledger, actor; dated 2002-04
- Liev Schrieber, actor; dated from 2005
Credits:
- 2009: The Birds, Need, Kicked, Bitten and Scrached, The Internationals
2007: Funny Games U.S. (also exec. prod.), Eastern Promises
2006: The Painted Veil (also producer), Inland Empire (voice)
2005: King Kong, Stay, The Ring Two, Ellie Parker (also producer)
2004: The Assassination of Richard Nixon, I Heart Huckabee's, We Don't Live Here Anymore (also producer)
2003: 21 Grams, Le Divorce, Ned Kelly
2002: Rabbits, Plots with a View, The Ring
2001: Mulholland Drive, Down, Ellie Parker (also producer)
1999: Strange Planet
1998: A House Divided, Babe: Pig in the City (voice), Dangerous Beauty
1997: Under the Lighthouse Dancing
1996: Persons Unknown
1995: Tank Girl
1993: The Custodian, Gross Misconduct, Wide Sargasso Sea, Matinee
1991: Flirting
1986: For Love Alone (1986)
Nominated for Actress in a Leading Role