Happy Birthday, Naomi Watts: Know all facts about British actress and film producer

Naomi Ellen Watts is a British actress and producer who was born on September 28, 1968.

She made her acting debut in the 1986 Australian drama For Love Alone before making appearances in Hey Dad! (1990), Brides of Christ (1991), Home and Away (1991), and the 1991 movie Flirting.

Watts struggled as an actor for several years after relocating to the country, but she eventually landed roles in the films Tank Girl (1995), Children of the Corn IV: The Gathering (1996), Dangerous Beauty (1998), and the television series Sleepwalkers (1997–1998). For her roles as a would-be actress in David Lynch’s psychological thriller Mulholland Drive (2001) and a tortured journalist in the horror movie The Ring (2002), Watts became well-known on a global scale.

Her role of a grieving mother in Alejandro González Iárritu’s neo-noir film 21 Grammes (2003) earned her a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress.

I Heart Huckabees (2004), King Kong (2005), Eastern Promises (2007), and The International (2009) are some of her following films from the 2000s. Watts was nominated for an additional Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance as Maria Bennett in the disaster movie The Impossible (2012).

She acted in three highly regarded independent films in the 2010s: Birdman (2014), St.

While We’re Young (2015), Luce (2019), and Vincent (2014).

Watts entered the television world with the Showtime series Twin Peaks in 2017 and the 2019 film The Loudest Voice. Watts has continues to perform in blockbusters, including roles in the Divergent franchise (2015–2016). Watts is renowned for her work in independent and remakes with dark or tragic themes and for portraying people who experience loss or pain.

By 2009, she had made a name for herself as one of the most bankable actors in the American film industry.

She has been ranked among the most beautiful women in the world by publications like Maxim and People.

She worked as an ambassador for both Pantene’s Beautiful Lengths and the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS.

Watts is secretive about her personal life despite receiving a lot of media attention.

She shared two boys with American actor Liev Schreiber, with whom she was romantically involved from 2005 to 2016.