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Naomi Watts

Born in England, but raised in Australa, Naomi Watts had her big break when she starred in David Lynch's Mulholland Drive in 2001. Since then she has numerous important roles include the lead in the remake of The Ring, King Kong and Divorce, Le.

She is a close friend of Nicole Kidman, who she met at a shoot for a bikini ad.

Wise words: "I want a big paycheck, so put me in some dumb romantic comedy any day".


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Naomi Watts - news / articles


  • Watts in talks for Jody Williams - 22 October 2008
    Naomi Watts is in negotiations to take the role of Jody Williams in a forthcoming biopic about the Nobel-winning anti-landmine campaigner.-The Australian actress is being lined-up to play the controversial activist in My Name is Jody Williams, according to the Hollyw


  • Naomi Watts cast in The Da Vinci Code prequel - 21 November 2007
    A prequel to The Da Vinci Code is to star Naomi Watts opposite Tom Hanks, it emerged today.-Angels and Demons will be the second film to feature Hanks as Robert Langdon, a university professor thrust into a web of conspiracy and intrigue as he tries to decipher a set


  • Possible remake of The Birds for Naomi Watts - 18 October 2006
    King Kong and 21 Grams star Naomi Watts is reportedly being considered for the remake of Alfred Hitchcock classic The Birds.-According to TMZ.com, the Australian actress - who featured in remakes of The Ring and the aforementioned ape-epic - could star as Melanie Dan

Naomi Watts - what members say


  • Tank Girl
  • Tank Girl review by MacManic from London
    Rated - 4 stars Mad Max with breasts. 26 October 2005
    ...It's a shame it didn't do better when it was released. Look out for a young Naomi Watts as the shy Jet Girl. m ...  
  • Mulholland Drive
  • Mulholland Drive review by A customer from Stafford England
    Rated - 4 stars Intelligent Dark Thriller 25 May 2004
    ...for yourself and enjoy a film that doesn't follow the norm then this is superb. Naomi Watts excels in one of the most memorable and brilliantly acted movie audition scenes...  
  • The Ring
  • The Ring review by A customer from Nottingham, England
    Rated - 4 stars worthy re-make of superior japanese shocker 14 September 2003
    ... To my surprise, in many ways I found this to be a more 'enjoyable' experience. Naomi Watts gives a very convincing, yet ambiguous performance, as a distracted mother driv...  

Naomi Watts - filmography


  • Funny Games on DVD (2007)
    Starring: Naomi Watts,  Brady Corbet,  Siobhan Fallon
    Director: Michael Haneke
    Certificate: 18
    Director Michael Haneke (CACHE) remakes his own 1997 feature, this time casting Naomi Watts, Brady Corbet, Tim Roth, Michael Pitt, and Devon Gearhart. Following the original's premise, the thriller explores the chaos surrounding a family hostage situation.
    Rate this: 2.5 54% from 3,798 members
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  • The Painted Veil on DVD (2006)
    Starring: Naomi Watts,  Edward Norton,  Liev Schreiber
    Director: John Curran
    Certificate: 12
    China, 1925: Bacteriologist Dr. Walter Fane (Norton) jealously ends his spoilt wife Kitty’s (Watts) adulterous affair by making her accompany him to a remote province where a cholera epidemic rages. Amid hostility and disease, the couple rediscover purpose, and each other.
    Rate this: 3.5 71% from 22,543 members
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  • King Kong on DVD (2005)
    Starring: Naomi Watts,  Adrien Brody,  Jack Black
    Director: Peter Jackson
    Certificate: 12
    It is 1933, and vaudeville actress Ann Darrow (Oscar nominee Naomi Watts) has found herself - like so many other New Yorkers during the Great Depression - without the means to earn a living. Unwilling to compromise and allow herself to sink into a career in burlesque, she considers her limited ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.0 61% from 20,706 members
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  • Stay on DVD (2005)
    Starring: Ewan McGregor,  Naomi Watts,  Ryan Gosling
    Director: Marc Forster
    Certificate: 18
    Sam Foster (Ewan McGregor) is a young psychiatrist who is filling in for a colleague on leave. Among his new patients is Henry Letham (Ryan Gosling), a young art student who hears voices and is seriously contemplating suicide. This resonates strongly with Sam, who rescued his painter girlfriend, ..read more »
    Rate this: 2.5 52% from 2,782 members
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  • Ellie Parker on DVD (2005)
    Starring: Naomi Watts,  Rebecca Riggs,  Scott Coffey
    Director: Scott Coffey
    Certificate: 15
    Irreverently funny, intensly raw and a little bit mad, Ellie Parker is all about performances. A talented young aspiring actress, Ellie Parker, hops from one audition to personal crisis and back again as she tries to make sense of her career, love life and personal misadventures. An original look ..read more »
    Rate this: 2.0 42% from 354 members
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  • 21 Grams on DVD (2004)
    Starring: Sean Penn,  Charlotte Gainsbourg,  Benicio Del Toro
    Director: Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
    Certificate: 15
    Paul (Sean Penn) has less than a month to live, he's on the waiting list for a heart transplant, and his wife (Charlotte Gainsbourg) is determined to get pregnant with his child before it's too late. Meanwhile, Cristina (Naomi Watts) is a happy mother with a loving husband and two daughters but she ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.0 68% from 7,205 members
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  • Le Divorce on DVD (2003)
    Starring: Kate Hudson,  Naomi Watts,  Glenn Close
    Director: James Ivory
    Certificate: 12
    LE DIVORCE, based on the novel by Diane Johnson, is a contemporary Merchant/Ivory production that explores the fundamental differences between Americans and the French, especially in matters of the heart and manners. Isabel (Kate Hudson) is a brash, outspoken Californian who travels to Paris to ..read more »
    Rate this: 2.0 43% from 1,226 members
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  • Ned Kelly on DVD (2003)
    Starring: Heath Ledger,  Orlando Bloom,  Naomi Watts
    Director: Gregor Jordan
    Certificate: 15
    A film about Australias' most notorious outlaw, Ned Kelly. It is 1871 and Ned, along with his brother Dan and two other men, Steve Hart and Joe Byrne, form a gang, the Kelly Gang, and set out to rob banks using primitive armour as protection. Kelly soons finds himself being seen as a Robin Hood ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.0 63% from 1,185 members
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  • The Ring on DVD (2002)
    Starring: Naomi Watts,  Martin Henderson,  Brian Cox
    Director: Gore Verbinski
    Certificate: 15
    In Gore Verbinski's remake of Hideo Nakata's chilling horror film, a group of teenagers all die suddenly and inexplicably exactly one week after watching a mysterious videotape at a remote cabin in the Pacific Northwest. Journalist Rachel Keller (Naomi Watts), a relative of one of the victims, ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.0 65% from 4,008 members
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  • Mulholland Drive - HD DVD Version (2001)
    Starring: Dan Hedaya,  Laura Harring,  Naomi Watts
    Director: David Lynch
    Certificate: 15
    David Lynch strikes again with this literal nightmare of a motion picture--a brilliant, scathing, hysterical, and haunting ode to Hollywood. In the film, a mysterious dark-haired woman (Laura Elena Harring) emerges from an accident with a purse full of cash and a head full of amnesia. Meanwhile, ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 69% from 357 members
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  • The Hunt For The Unicorn Killer on DVD (1999)
    Starring: Kevin Anderson,  Tom Skerritt,  Naomi Watts
    Director: William A. Graham
    Certificate: 12
    Based on a true story, this tells of Ira Einhorn, credited with being one of the founders of Earth Day, who in the late 60s and early 70s lived with Holly Maddux. When she tries to leave him in 1977, she suddenly disappears and her body is found in a trunk in Einhorn's apartment...
    Rate this: 3.0 64% from 17 members
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  • Tank Girl on DVD (1995)
    Starring: Lori Petty,  Malcolm McDowell,  Ice-T
    Director: Rachel Talalay
    Certificate: 15
    In the year 2033, the world's water supply is controlled by Kesslee (Malcolm McDowell), a maniacal dictator who presides over the Water & Power company. Tank Girl (Lori Petty), a tough punk water poacher, struggles alongside her comrades to deliver the valuable resource to parched persons around ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.0 61% from 494 members
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  • The Custodian on DVD (1993)
    Starring: Anthony La Paglia,  Hugo Weaving,  Barry Otto
    Director: John Dingwall
    Certificate: 15
    Dogwatch A cop who holds little regard for the low-life of New York, witnesses his partner's death in a bar. He shoots the assailant dead, only to discover that it's another cop. In a panic he dumps the body in the river... The Custodian A tough Australian police thriller in which an ..read more »
    Rate this: 2.5 47% from 86 members
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  • Matinee on DVD (1992)
    Starring: John Goodman,  Cathy Moriarty,  Simon Fenton
    Director: Joe Dante
    Certificate: PG
    It's 1962 and 15-year-old horror film fan Gene Loomis (Simon Fenton) is the new kid in a small Key West town; the Cuban Missile Crisis is happening in his own backyard; an intriguing girl (Lisa Jakub) is actually looking his way, and best of all, master showman Lawrence Woolsey (John Goodman) is in ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.0 60% from 293 members
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