Naomi Ellen Watts born 28 September is a British actress. She appeared in three television series, Hey Dad..! Ten years later, Watts moved to the United States, where she initially struggled as an actress. She took roles in small-scale films until she starred in her breakthrough role as an aspiring actress in David Lynch 's mystery film, Mulholland Drive , in Watts played a tormented journalist in the horror remake The Ring She has since starred in Birdman , St.
Watts ventured into television with the third season of Lynch's mystery series Twin Peaks and the biographical miniseries The Loudest Voice The Swans , for which she received a Primetime Emmy Award nomination. Watts is particularly known for her work in remakes and independent productions with dark or tragic themes, as well as for portrayals of characters who endure loss or suffering.
From to , she was in a relationship with American actor Liev Schreiber , with whom she has two children. In June , she married American actor Billy Crudup. In August , when Watts was nearly eight years old, he was found dead in a flat in Notting Hill , London, of an apparent heroin overdose. She later said of her time in Wales: "We took Welsh lessons in a school in the middle of nowhere while everyone else was taking English. Wherever we moved, I would adapt and pick up the regional accent.
It's obviously significant now, me being an actress. Anyway, there was quite a lot of sadness in my childhood, but no lack of love. She and her second husband later divorced. She turned to costume design, and worked for the soap opera Return to Eden. Watts briefly cameoed as a model in two episodes. She auditioned for numerous television advertisements, where she met and befriended the young actress Nicole Kidman.
After leaving school she worked as a papergirl, a negative cutter , and managed a Delicacies store in Sydney's affluent North Shore. At the age of 18, Watts decided to become a model. She signed with a models agency that sent her to Japan, but after several failed auditions, she returned to Sydney. Follow Me magazine hired her as an assistant fashion editor. She has said that: "I consider myself British and have very happy memories of the UK.
