Naomi Ellen Watts was Made In England.
Her father (Peter Watts) worked as a road manager & sound engineer for "legendary" 1970's progressive/psychedelic rock band — Pink Floyd and her mother (Myfanwy) was costume designer. After the divorce of her parents, her father suddenly passed-away when she was only 7-yrs-old. Naomi eventually went to live in Australia w/ her mother & brother, and it was at the Land Down Under where she discovered her passion for acting.
As fate would have it — while attending an Australian acting class, Naomi Watts first met Nicole Kidman and the two Hollywood starlets remain close friends 'til this very day.
Super-stardom did not come overnight for Naomi, she’s actually been working steadily within the
movie & modeling industry since the early ‘90s — recently
certifying her name among Hollywood’s A-List.
theKONGBLOG™, "Naomi Watts is a throwback to the Hollywood starlets of yester-years...she is simply stunning, sensual & seductive."
She starred in David Lynch's "critically-acclaimed" psychological thriller Mulholland Drive (2001) — which evidently became her break-through role. Naomi then starred in one of the biggest box office hits of that year — a remake of the Japanese horror film The Ring (2002), a thriller that creeped-out audiences nationwide.
Watts soon followed w/ a powerful performance starring alongside Sean Penn & Benicio del Toro in 21
Grams (2003); receiving an Academy Award-nomination for her role.
The spotlight shown brightest when Naomi Watts accepted a role to play Ann Darrow in her most commerically successful film to date — Peter Jackson's remake of King Kong (2005)
The Seattle Post-Intelligencer praised her performance, "The third act becomes a star-crossed, "Beauty and the Beast" parable far more operatic and tragic than anything the original filmmakers could have imagined, exquisitely pantomimed by Watts with a poignancy and passion that rates Oscar consideration."
Kong always had a thing for blondes |
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