Biography:
NaomiWatts's career began in Australian television, where she appeared
in
commercials and series. In 2001, she starred in The Shaft directed by
Dick Maas, which garnered poor reviews. Watts
starred in David Lynch's
highly acclaimed Mulholland Drive. In 2002, she starred in one of the
biggest box office hits of that year, the English language remake of
the Japanese horror film The Ring. The following year, she starred in
the film Ned Kelly opposite Heath Ledger, Orlando Bloom, and Geoffrey
Rush, as well as the Merchant-Ivory film Le Divorce with Kate Hudson.
Her performance opposite Sean Penn and Benicio del Toro in director
Alejandro González Iñárritu's 21 Grams
earned Watts her first Academy
Award nomination as Best Actress. Watts landed the lead role in the
sequel to the Ring, The Ring Two.  She
starred in the much-anticipated
remake of King Kong (2005) as Ann Darrow. Naomi Watts starred in the
American
Japanese drama The Painted Veil with Edward Norton and Liev Schreiber,
released in December
2006. Her character in the film was Kitty Garstin
Fane. Also that year, she provided the voice of a small role, Suzie
Rabbit, in the psychological thriller film Inland Empire. Funny Games,
a 2008 remake of the 1997 Austrian film by director Michael Haneke, was
co-starred Tim Roth. In
the film, she portrayed the character of Ann
Farber, the wife of Roth's character. In 2009, Watts had the starring
role alongside Clive Owen in the political thriller film The
International. Her character was Eleanor Whitman, a Manhattan assistant
district attorney who partners with the agent to take down the bank.
She next appeared in the American drama Mother and Child, which was
screened at the Sundance Film Festival. She personified the role of
Elizabeth, a lawer woman, who never knew her biological mother. The
comedy-drama You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger – starring
Watts –
opened at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival on May 15, 2010. In January
2010, she was cast for the thriller film Dream House, which will be
directed by Jim Sheridan. She starred in the film Fair Game, which
opened at the Cannes Film Festival in 2010, and was later released in
the United States on November 5, 2010. In 2010, it was announced that
Watts landed the role of Marilyn Monroe in the film Blonde. which is
set to start shooting in January 2011.
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"I’ve
never been a fan of gore. Even though I’ve done quite a few
films of
this genre, there has never really been much of blood and guts in the
films I’ve done. It’s been more psychological.
I’m not here to say
that, just because I’m tapped into Michael’s
mind-set and what he’s
trying to say, shame on you for all those other films being made.
I’m
not on a soapbox here. I understand every film has its value,
in its
different way, and what works for some people, doesn’t work
for others.
I’m an actor. I enjoy playing fear and, if I’m in
another thriller of
that type then - But, I’m not ever really interested in the
gory
stuff."
