Naomi Watts

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Naomi Watts
Naomi Watts 2012.jpg
Watts at a Jacob’s Creek event, 1 February 2012
Born Naomi Ellen Watts
(1968-09-28) 28 September 1968 (age 44)
Shoreham, Kent, England
Occupation Actress
Years active 1986–present
Partner(s) Liev Schreiber (2005–present)
Children 2

Naomi Ellen Watts (born 28 September 1968)[1] is a British-Australian actress.[2] She began her career in Australia, making her screen debut in the drama film For Love Alone (1986) and then appeared in the television series Hey Dad..! (1990), Brides of Christ (1991) and Home and Away (1991) and alongside Nicole Kidman and Thandie Newton in the coming-of-age comedy-drama film Flirting (1991). After moving to America, Watts appeared in films including Tank Girl (1995), Children of the Corn IV: The Gathering (1996) and Dangerous Beauty (1998) and had the lead role in the television series Sleepwalkers (1997–1998).

After years as a struggling actress,[3] Watts gained critical acclaim for her work in David Lynch's psychological thriller Mulholland Drive (2001). The following year, she received public recognition for her role in the box office hit horror film The Ring (2002). She then received nominations for the Academy Award and the Screen Actors Guild Award for Best Actress for her portrayal of Cristina Peck in Alejandro González Iñárritu's neo-noir 21 Grams (2003). Her subsequent films include David O. Russell's comedy I Heart Huckabees (2004), the remake of King Kong (2005), the crime-thriller Eastern Promises (2007) and the thriller The International (2009). Since then, Watts has portrayed Valerie Plame Wilson in the biographical drama Fair Game (2010) and Helen Gandy in Clint Eastwood's biographical drama J. Edgar (2011). For her leading role as Maria Bennett in the disaster film The Impossible (2012), she received second nominations for the Academy Award and Screen Actors Guild Award for Best Actress and a nomination for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress.

In 2002, Watts was included in People Magazine's 50 Most Beautiful People. In 2006, she became a goodwill ambassador for Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS, which helps to raise awareness of AIDS-related issues. She has participated in several fundraisers for the cause, and she is presented as an inaugural member of AIDS Red Ribbon Awards.

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[edit] Early life and education

Watts was born in Shoreham, Kent, England.[4] She is the daughter of Myfanwy Edwards (née Roberts), a Welsh antiques dealer and costume and set designer,[1] and Peter Watts, an English road manager and sound engineer who worked with Pink Floyd.[5][6] Her parents divorced when she was four years old.[6][7] After the divorce, Watts and her elder brother, Ben Watts, moved several times across South East England with their mother.[8] Peter Watts left Pink Floyd in 1974, and he and Myfanwy were later reconciled. Two years later, in August 1976, he was found dead in a flat in Notting Hill, of an apparent heroin overdose.[3][9]

Following his death, Watts' mother moved the family to Llanfawr Farm in Llangefni, on Anglesey in North Wales, where they lived with Watts' maternal grandparents, Nikki and Hugh Roberts, for three years, while Myfanwy moved between there and London in search of a career. During this time, Watts attended a Welsh language school, Ysgol Gyfun Llangefni, where she carried out her studies.[10] 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, my being an actress. Anyway, there was quite a lot of sadness in my childhood, but no lack of love."[10] In 1978, her mother remarried (though she would later be divorced again)[11] and Watts and her brother then moved to Suffolk where she attended Thomas Mills High School.[8] Watts has stated that she wanted to become an actress after seeing her mother performing on stage and from the time she watched the 1980 film Fame.[6][12]

In 1982, when Watts was 14, she moved to Sydney, New South Wales in Australia (her maternal grandmother was Australian) with her mother, brother and stepfather.[6][13] Myfanwy established a career in the burgeoning film business, working as a stylist for television commercials, then turning to costume design, ultimately working for the soap opera Return to Eden.[3] After emigrating, Watts was enrolled in acting lessons by her mother, where she met and befriended actress Nicole Kidman.[6] She also auditioned for and starred in numerous television advertisements.[3]

In Australia, Watts attended Mosman High School and North Sydney Girls High School.[14] She failed to graduate from school, afterwards working as a papergirl, a negative cutter, and managing a Delicacies store in Sydney's affluent North Shore.[3] She decided to become a model when she was 18. She signed with a models agency that sent her to Japan, but after several failed auditions, she returned to Sydney.[6] There, she was hired to work in advertising for a department store, that exposed her to the attention of Follow Me, a magazine which hired her as an assistant fashion editor.[3][6] A casual invitation to participate in a drama workshop returned Watts to acting, and prompted her to quit her job and to seek success as an actress.[15] Watts obtained her first role in the 1986 drama film For Love Alone, based on the novel of the same name by Christina Stead, and produced by Margaret Fink. Her mother was a set dresser on this production.

Regarding her nationality, Watts has stated: "I consider myself British and have very happy memories of the UK. I spent the first 14 years of my life in England and Wales and never wanted to leave. When I was in Australia I went back to England a lot."[16] She also has expressed her nationalism for Australia, declaring: "I consider myself very connected to Australia, in fact when people say where is home, I say Australia, because those are my most powerful memories."[17]

[edit] Career

[edit] 1986–1992: Early work

Watts' career began in American television, where she made brief appearances in commercials.[13] The 1986 drama For Love Alone, set in the 1930s and based on Christina Stead's 1945 best-selling novel of the same name, marked her debut in film.[18] She then appeared in two episodes of the fourth season of the Australian sitcom Hey Dad..! in 1990. After a five-year absence from films, Watts met director John Duigan during the 1989 premiere of her friend Nicole Kidman's film Dead Calm and he invited her to take a supporting role in his 1991 indie film Flirting.[13][19] She starred opposite future Hollywood up-and-comers Kidman and Thandie Newton. The film received critical acclaim and was featured on Roger Ebert's list of the 10 best films of 1992.[20] Also in 1991, she took the part of Frances Heffernan, a girl who struggles to find friends behind the walls of a Sydney Catholic school,[21] in the award winning mini-series Brides of Christ[22] and had a recurring role in the soap opera Home and Away as the handicapped Julie Gibson.[23] Watts was then offered a role in the drama series A Country Practice but turned it down, not wanting to "get stuck on a soap for two or three years", a decision she later called "naïve".[13][15]

[edit] 1993–2000: Move to America, career struggles

Watts then took a year out to travel, visiting Los Angeles and being introduced to agents through Kidman.[8] Encouraged, Watts decided to move to America, to pursue her career further. In 1993 she had a small role in the John Goodman film Matinee and temporarily returned to Australia to star in three Australian films: another of Duigan's pictures, Wide Sargasso Sea; the drama The Custodian; and had her first leading role in the film Gross Misconduct, as a student who accuses one of her teachers (played by Jimmy Smits) of raping her.[13] Watts then moved back to America for good but the difficulty of finding agents, producers and directors willing to hire her during that period frustrated her initial efforts.

“ When I came to America there was so much promise of good stuff and I thought, I've got it made here. I'm going to kick ass. Then I went back to Australia and did one or two more jobs. When I returned to Hollywood, all those people who'd been so encouraging before weren't interested. You take all their flattery seriously when you don't know any better. I basically had to start all over again. I get offered some things without auditioning today, but back then they wouldn't even fax me the pages of a script because it was too much of an inconvenience. I had to drive for hours into the Valley to pick up three bits of paper for some horrendous piece of shit, then go back the next day and line up for two hours to meet the casting director who would barely give me eye contact. It was humiliating.[15] ”

Though her financial situation never led her to taking a job out of the film industry, she experienced problems like being unable to pay the rent of her apartment and losing her medical insurance.[3][24] "At first, everything was fantastic and doors were opened to me. But some people who I met through Nicole [Kidman], who had been all over me, had difficulty remembering my name when we next met. There were a lot of promises, but nothing actually came off. I ran out of money and became quite lonely, but Nic gave me company and encouragement to carry on."[25]

She then won a supporting role in the futuristic 1995 film Tank Girl, winning the role of "Jet Girl" after nine auditions.[6] While the film was met with mixed reviews, it flopped at the box office, although it has gone on to become something of a cult classic.[26] Throughout the rest of the decade, she took mostly supporting roles in films[27] and occasionally considered leaving the business, but: "there were always little bites. Whenever I felt I was at the end of my rope, something would come up. Something bad. But for me it was 'work begets work'; that was my motto."[8][24]

In 1996, she starred alongside Joe Mantegna, Kelly Lynch and J.T. Walsh in George Hickenlooper's action-thriller Persons Unknown; alongside James Earl Jones, Kevin Kilner and Ellen Burstyn in the period drama Timepiece; in Bermuda Triangle, a TV pilot that was not picked up for a full series, where she played a former documentary filmmaker who disappears in the Bermuda Triangle;[28] and as the lead role in Children of the Corn IV: The Gathering, in which children in a small town become possessed under the command of a wrongfully-murdered child preacher.[6]

In 1997, she starred in the Australian ensemble romantic drama Under the Lighthouse Dancing and also played the lead role in the short-lived television series Sleepwalkers. In 1998, she starred alongside Neil Patrick Harris and Debbie Reynolds in the TV film The Christmas Wish, played the supporting role of Giulia De Lezze in Dangerous Beauty,[13] and provided some voice work for Babe: Pig in the City. She said in an interview in 2012, "That really should not be on my résumé! I think that was early on in the day, when I was trying to beef up my résumé. I came in and did a couple days' work of voiceovers and we had to suck on [helium] and then do a little mouse voice. But I was one in a hundred, so I'm sure you would never be able to identify my voice. I probably couldn't either!"[29]

In 1999, she played Alice in the romantic comedy Strange Planet and the Texan student Holly Maddux in The Hunt for the Unicorn Killer, which was based on the real life effort to capture Ira Einhorn, who was charged with Maddux's murder.[30][31] In 2000, while David Lynch was expanding the rejected pilot of Mulholland Drive into a feature film, Watts starred alongside Derek Jacobi, Jack Davenport and Iain Glen in the BBC TV film The Wyvern Mystery, an adaptation of the novel of the same name by Sheridan Le Fanu that was broadcast in March of that year.[3]

Much of her early career is filled with near misses in casting, as she was up for significant roles in films such as 1997's The Postman and The Devil's Advocate and 2000's Meet the Parents, which eventually went to other actresses.[32] In an interview in 2012, Watts said, "I came to New York and auditioned at least five times for Meet the Parents. I think the director liked me but the studio didn't. I heard every piece of feedback you could imagine, and in this case, it was 'not sexy enough'."[33] Watts recalled her early career in an interview in 2002, saying, "It is a tough town. I think my spirit has taken a beating. The most painful thing has been the endless auditions. Knowing that you have something to offer, but not being able to show it, is so frustrating. As an unknown, you get treated badly. I auditioned and waited for things I did not have any belief in, but I needed the work and had to accept horrendous pieces of shit."[25]

[edit] 2001–2004: Breakthrough

Watts with filmmaker David Lynch at 2001 the Cannes Film Festival

In 1999, director David Lynch began casting for his psychological thriller Mulholland Drive. He interviewed Watts after looking at her headshot,[33] without having seen any of her previous work,[34] and offered her the lead role.[33] Lynch later said about his selection of Watts, "I saw someone that I felt had a tremendous talent, and I saw someone who had a beautiful soul, an intelligence—possibilities for a lot of different roles, so it was a beautiful full package."[35] Conceived as a pilot for a television series, Lynch shot a large portion of it in February 1999, planning to keep it open-ended for a potential series. However, the pilot was rejected. Watts recalled thinking at the time, "just my dumb luck, that I'm in the only David Lynch programme that never sees the light of day."[8] Instead, Lynch filmed an ending in October 2000, turning it into a feature film which was picked up for distribution. The film, which also starred Laura Harring and Justin Theroux, was highly acclaimed by critics and would become Watts' breakthrough. She was praised by critics, including Peter Bradshaw from The Guardian, who said, "Watts's face metamorphoses miraculously from fresh-faced beauty to a frenzied, teary scowl of ugliness."[36] and Emanuel Levy, who wrote, "[...]Naomi Watts, in a brilliant performance, a young, wide-eyed and grotesquely cheerful blonde, full of high hopes to make it big in Hollywood."[37] The film premiered at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival and received a large number of awards and nominations, including the Best Actress Award for Watts from the National Society of Film Critics and a nomination for Best Actress from the American Film Institute.[38] The surrealist film following the story of the aspiring actress Betty Elms, played by Watts, attracted controversy with its strong lesbian theme.[39][40]

Also in 2001, she starred in two short films, Never Date an Actress and Ellie Parker, and the horror film Down, director Dick Maas' remake of his 1983 film De Lift. In 2002, she starred in one of the biggest box office hits of that year, The Ring, the English language remake of the Japanese horror film Ringu. Directed by Gore Verbinski, the film, which also starred Martin Henderson and Brian Cox, received favourable reviews and grossed around US$129 million domestically (equivalent to US$164.7 million in 2013).[41] Watts portrayed Rachel Keller, a journalist investigating the strange deaths of her niece and other teenagers after watching a mysterious videotape, and receiving a phone call announcing their deaths in seven days.[42] Her performance was praised by critics, including Paul Clinton of CNN.com, who stated that she "is excellent in this leading role, which proves that her stellar performance in Mulholland Drive was not a fluke. She strikes a perfect balance between scepticism and the slow realisation of the truth in regard to the deadly power of the videotape."[43] That year, she also starred in Rabbits, a series of short films directed by David Lynch; alongside several other famous British actors in the black comedy Plots with a View; and with Tim Daly in the western The Outsider.

The following year, she took the part of Julia Cook in Gregor Jordan's Australian film Ned Kelly opposite Heath Ledger, Orlando Bloom and Geoffrey Rush;[44] as well as starring in the Merchant-Ivory film Le Divorce, portraying Roxeanne de Persand, a poet who is abandoned by her husband Charles-Henri de Persand at the time she is pregnant. Roxeanne and her sister Isabel (Kate Hudson) dispute the ownership of a painting by Georges de la Tour with the family of Henri's lover. Entertainment Weekly gave the film a "C" rating and lamented Watts' performance: "I'm disappointed to report that Hudson and Watts have no chemistry as sisters, perhaps because Watts never seems like the expatriate artiste she's supposed to be playing".[45]

Her performance opposite Sean Penn and Benicio del Toro in director Alejandro González Iñárritu's 2003 drama 21 Grams earned Watts an Academy Award nomination as Best Actress later that year.[46] In the story, told in a non-lineal manner, she portrayed Cristina Peck, a grief-stricken woman living a suburban life after the killing of her husband and two children by Jack Jordan (Benicio del Toro), who started a relationship with the critically ill academic mathematician Paul Rivers (Sean Penn). She said of the nomination, "It's far beyond what I ever dreamed for – that would have been too far fetched".[47] She also was nominated for Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role, as well as many other nominations and acclaim.[48] The New York Times praised her: "Because Ms. Watts reinvents herself with each performance, it's easy to forget how brilliant she is. She has a boldness that comes from a lack of overemphasis, something actresses sometimes do to keep up with Mr. Penn".[49] The San Francisco Chronicle wrote: "Watts is riveting, but she's much better in scenes of extreme emotion than in those requiring subtlety."[50]

She then co-produced and starred alongside Mark Ruffalo in the well-received 2004 independent film We Don't Live Here Anymore, directed by John Curran. The film is a drama which was based on the short stories We Don't Live Here Anymore and Adultery by Andre Dubus, and depicts the crisis of two married couples.[51] She reunited with Sean Penn in The Assassination of Richard Nixon, which was set in 1974. She played Marie Andersen Bicke, the wife of the would-be presidential assassin Samuel Byck (Penn).[52] Finally in 2004, she teamed up with Jude Law and Dustin Hoffman in David O. Russell's ensemble comedy I Heart Huckabees.[53]

[edit] 2005–2008: Popular success

Watts at the London premiere of Eastern Promises in 2007

In 2005, Watts starred and co-produced with director/screenwriter Scott Coffey her next film, the semi-autobiographical drama Ellie Parker, which depicted the struggle of an Australian actress in Hollywood.[54] The film began as a short film that was screened at the Sundance Film Festival in 2001 and was expanded into a feature-length production over the next four years. Film critic Roger Ebert praised Watts' performance: "The character is played by Watts with courage, fearless observation, and a gift for timing that is so uncanny it can make points all by itself."[55]

Watts returned in the lead role in the sequel to The Ring, The Ring Two. The film received several negative reviews,[56] but was a major success at the box office, with an over US$161 million worldwide gross (equivalent to US$189.3 million in 2013) and Watts was once again praised for her performance.[57] Her third film of the year was Marc Forster's psychological thriller Stay. Written by David Benioff, it also starred Ewan McGregor, Ryan Gosling and Bob Hoskins.[3]

Watts then starred in the 2005 remake of King Kong as Ann Darrow. Watts was the first choice for the role, portrayed by Fay Wray in the original film, with no other actors considered.[58] In preparation for her role, Watts met with Wray,[59] who was to make a cameo appearance and say the final line of dialogue, but she died during pre-production at the age of 96.[60] King Kong proved to be Watts' most commercially successful film yet. Helmed by The Lord of the Rings director Peter Jackson, the film won high praise and grossed US$550 million worldwide (equivalent to US$646.5 million in 2013).[61][62] 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."[63]

About the evolution of her portrayals, Watts stated: "You'd better know why you're here as an actor ... I'm here to work out my shit, what my problems are and know who I am, so by cracking open these characters perhaps that shines a light on it a little bit better ... I know myself. I mean, of course I know myself better but the journey and search continue because hopefully we're evolving and growing all the time."[64]

Her next film was the 2006 remake of the 1934 film The Painted Veil with Edward Norton and Liev Schreiber. Watts played Kitty Garstin, the daughter of a prominent scientist, who marries Walter Fane (Norton) for his reputation as a physician and bacteriologist. The film centres on the relationship of the couple at the time they move to China, where Fane is stationed to study infectious diseases.[65] Comparing her portrayal with Greta Garbo's in the original movie, The San Francisco Chronicle wrote "Watts makes the role work on her own terms – her Kitty is more desperate, more foolish, more miserable and more driven ... and her spiritual journey is greater.[66]

For her only other film of that year, she provided the voice of a small role, Suzie Rabbit, in David Lynch's psychological thriller film Inland Empire.[67] Also that year, she was announced as the new face of the jewellers David Yurman and completed a photoshoot which was featured in the 2007 Pirelli Calendar.[12]

The following year, she appeared in David Cronenberg's crime thriller Eastern Promises with Viggo Mortensen. The film was released to critical acclaim for the film itself and for her performance.[68] A moderate box office success, it grossed US$56 million worldwide (equivalent to US$65.8 million in 2013).[69] Critic Matthew Turner of View London wrote that Watts "strikes an intriguing balance between strength and emotional vulnerability."[68]

In 2007, Variety reported that Watts and George Clooney would star in the remake of Alfred Hitchcock's 1963 film The Birds, which would be directed by Casino Royale director Martin Campbell.[70] On 16 June 2009, Brad Fuller of Dimension Films stated that no further developments had taken place, commenting, "We keep trying, but I don't know."[71] Martin Campbell was eventually replaced as director by Dennis Iliadis in December 2009.[72][73] In an interview in December 2010, Watts said, "It sounded like a good idea, but the script's not there yet. I'd love to have been a Hitchcock blonde. A few directors I've worked with have been heavily influenced by Hitchcock, so I feel like I've gotten close."[74]

In 2007, she appeared in Michael Haneke's Funny Games, a remake of Haneke's 1997 film of the same name, alongside Tim Roth. In the film, she portrayed Ann Farber, who with her husband and son are held hostage by a pair of sociopathic teenagers. The film opened on 20 October 2007 at the London Film Festival.[75]

[edit] 2009–present: Recent roles

Watts at the 2011 Deauville American Film Festival

After a short hiatus from acting following the birth of her two children, Watts returned to work in 2009, starring alongside Clive Owen in the political thriller The International. She played a Manhattan assistant district attorney who partners with the titular agent to take down a bank.[76] During an interview, Watts commented on her role: "She was operating in this fast-moving world and was a great bouncing board for her colleague, Salinger, but also trying to balance that with motherhood as well, and I think I definitely relate to that now and hopefully other career mothers will too."[77] The International was well received by critics,[78] and grossed over US$60 million (equivalent to $64.2 million in 2013) worldwide.[79]

The same year, she appeared in the American drama Mother and Child, which was screened at the Sundance Film Festival.[80] She portrayed the role of Elizabeth, a lawyer who never knew her biological mother. Watts co-starred the film along with Annette Bening, Kerry Washington and Samuel L. Jackson.[81] Mother and Child received several favourable reviews, and Watts' performance was praised by Tom Long of Detroit News, who stated that she "has the ability to make such a ragged transition somehow work."[82] She was nominated for the Best Actress award at the Australian Film Institute Awards[83] and was also nominated for an Independent Spirit Award in the category of Best Supporting Female.[84]

Her next movie, the Woody Allen comedy You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger, opened at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival on 15 May 2010.[85] She portrayed Sally, a woman who has a troubled marriage with author Roy, played by Josh Brolin. Antonio Banderas, Freida Pinto, Lucy Punch and Anthony Hopkins also co-starred in the film, which received mixed reviews from critics[86] and grossed over US$26 million (equivalent to $27.4 million in 2013).[87]

Also in 2010, she starred as Valerie Plame in the film Fair Game, which opened at the Cannes Film Festival in 2010, and was later released in the United States on 5 November 2010.[88] Based on Plame's memoir, Fair Game: My Life as a Spy, My Betrayal by the White House, it also marked the third pairing of Watts with Sean Penn after 21 Grams and The Assassination of Richard Nixon.[89] Watts was nominated for the Satellite Award for Best Actress for her performance in the film.[90] Boxoffice magazine wrote: "Watts doesn't get the big emotional scenes that have characterized much of her past work, instead she plays Valerie as a woman suddenly in a corner when her identity goes public. It's brilliantly understated and admirable work."[91] In July of that year, she was announced as the new face of clothing retailer Ann Taylor.[92]

In January 2010, she was cast in the thriller film Dream House, which was released in September 2011. Directed by Jim Sheridan, Watts starred in the film along with Daniel Craig and Rachel Weisz.[93] In October 2010, it was announced that Watts had landed the role of Marilyn Monroe in the film Blonde, which was set to start shooting in January 2011, but has been delayed.[94] In early 2011, Watts was cast in Clint Eastwood's J. Edgar, alongside Leonardo DiCaprio in the starring role. Watts played Edgar's secretary Helen Gandy.[95]

In 2012, Watts starred in The Impossible, a disaster drama based on the true story of María Belón and her family's experience of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, with Watts playing the lead role. The film received very positive reviews, with critics praising Watts' performance.[96] Deborah Young of The Hollywood Reporter said that "Watts packs a huge charge of emotion as the battered, ever-weakening Maria whose tears of pain and fear never appear fake or idealized."[97] Justin Chang of Variety magazine noted that "Watts has few equals at conveying physical and emotional extremis, something she again demonstrates in a mostly bedridden role."[98] Damon Wise of The Guardian said that "Watts is both brave and vulnerable, and her scenes with the young Lucas... are among the film's best."[99] Watts went on to be nominated for the Academy Award, Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild Award for Best Actress.

Watts has upcoming roles in the Australian drama film Two Mothers, in Laurie Collyer's Sunlight Jr. and as Diana, Princess of Wales in director Oliver Hirschbiegel's film Diana. She will also appear in filmmaker Gracie Otto's upcoming documentary film Chalky about British film and theatre producer Michael White, who is a close friend of Watts'.[100] All of the films are due for release in 2013.

[edit] Personal life

Watts with her partner Liev Schreiber in 2012.

Her father's manic laugh can be heard in Pink Floyd's "Speak to Me" and "Brain Damage" from The Dark Side of the Moon.[101] Watts is pictured in her mother's arms with her father, brother, the band, and other crew members, in the hardback/softcover edition of drummer Nick Mason's autobiography of the band Inside Out.[102]

Watts was in a relationship with director Stephen Hopkins[101] in the 1990s and actor Heath Ledger[103] from August 2002 to May 2004. Since the spring of 2005, Watts has been in a relationship with actor Liev Schreiber. She confirmed in an interview in late January 2009 that Schreiber had in fact given her a ring (which she was not wearing at the time) but that neither of them wanted to rush into marriage.[104] Schreiber, known to play tricks on the media, had once before called her his wife in 2007, but later revealed that it was a joke.[105] The couple's first son, Alexander "Sasha" Pete, was born in July 2007 in Los Angeles, and their second son, Samuel "Sammy" Kai, in December 2008 in New York City.[106] After a temporary hiatus from acting, she returned to work with The International, her first project since becoming a mother.[107] Watts stated in April 2010 that she would have a third child if she could guarantee a baby girl.[108]

She considered converting to Buddhism after having gained interest for that religion during the shooting of The Painted Veil. She said of her religious beliefs, "I have some belief but I am not a strict Buddhist or anything yet".[109] She practices the Transcendental Meditation technique.[110] In 2002, she was featured in People Magazine's 50 Most Beautiful People.[111]

[edit] Charity work

In 2006, Watts became a goodwill ambassador for Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS, it helps to raise awareness of AIDS issues. She has used her high profile and celebrity to call attention to the needs of people living with this disease.[112] Watts participated in events and activities, including the 21st Annual AIDS Walk.[113] She is presented as an inaugural member of AIDS Red Ribbon Awards. She has participated in campaigns for fundraising. On 1 December 2009, Watts was meeting with United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and joined the AIDS response at a dramatic public event commemorating World AIDS Day 2009.[114] During the event, she said: "It has been both unfortunate and unfair for HIV infection to be considered a shameful disease, for people living with HIV to be judged as blameworthy, and for AIDS to be equated with certain death. I have personally seen that dignity and hope have been strongest among those whose lives were changed by HIV."[115]

In 2011, she attended a charity polo match in New York City along with Australian actors Hugh Jackman and Isla Fisher, which was intended to raise money to help victims of the 2010 Haiti earthquake.[116]

[edit] Filmography

Films
Year Film Role Notes
1986 For Love Alone Leo's Girlfriend Film debut
1991 Flirting Janet Odgers
1993 Matinee Shopping Cart Starlet
Wide Sargasso Sea Fanny Grey
Gross Misconduct Jennifer Carter
The Custodian Louise
1995 Tank Girl Jet Girl
1996 Bermuda Triangle Amanda Television film
Children of the Corn IV: The Gathering Grace Rhodes
Timepiece Mary Chandler Television film
Persons Unknown Molly
1997 Under the Lighthouse Dancing Louise
1998 A House Divided Amanda Short film
Dangerous Beauty Guila De Lezze
Babe: Pig in the City Additional Voices
The Christmas Wish Renee Television film
1999 The Hunt for the Unicorn Killer Holly Maddux Television film
Strange Planet Alice
2000 The Wyvern Mystery Alice Fairfield Television film
2001 Never Date an Actress The shallow girlfriend Short film
Ellie Parker Ellie Parker Short film
Down Jennifer Evans Released as The Shaft in America
Mulholland Drive Betty Elms/Diane Selwyn Boston Society of Film Critics Award for Best Actress (2nd place)
Chicago Film Critics Association Award for Best Actress
Chlotrudis Award for Best Actress
Las Vegas Film Critics Society Award for Best Supporting Actress
Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Actress (2nd place)
National Board of Review for Best Breakthrough Performance by an Actress
New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actress (2nd place)
National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Actress
Online Film Critics Society Award for Best Actress
Online Film Critics Society Award for Best Breakthrough Performance
Outfest – Screen Idol Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role
Village Voice Film Poll – Best Lead Performance
San Diego Film Critics Society Award for Best Supporting Actress
Nominated—American Film Institute Award for Actress of the Year
Nominated—Saturn Award for Best Actress
2002 Rabbits Suzie
The Ring Rachel Keller Fangoria Chainsaw Award for Best Actress
Hollywood Film Festival Award for Breakthrough Award
Saturn Award for Best Actress
Plots with a View Meredith Also released as Undertaking Betty
The Outsider Rebecca Yoder Television film
2003 Ned Kelly Julia Cook
Le Divorce Roxeanne de Persand Venice Film Festival – Wella Prize
21 Grams Cristina Peck Boston Society of Film Critics Award for Best Actress (2nd place)
Florida Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actress
Independent Spirit Awards – Special Distinction Award
Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Actress
National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Actress (3rd place)
New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actress (2nd place)
Online Film Critics Society Award for Best Actress
Palm Springs International Film Festival – Desert Palm Achievement Award[117]
Phoenix Film Critics Society Award for Best Actress
Phoenix Film Critics Society Award for Best Cast
San Diego Film Critics Society Award for Best Actress
Southeastern Film Critics Association Award for Best Actress
Venice Film Festival – Audience Award
Venice Film Festival – Wella Prize
Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association Award for Best Actress
Nominated—Academy Award for Best Actress
Nominated—BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role
Nominated—Chicago Film Critics Association Award for Best Actress
Nominated—Critics' Choice Award for Best Actress
Nominated—Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association Award for Best Actress
Nominated—Satellite Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Drama
Nominated—Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role
2004 We Don't Live Here Anymore Edith Evans
The Assassination of Richard Nixon Marie Andersen Bicke
I Heart Huckabees Dawn Campbell
2005 Ellie Parker Ellie Parker Seattle International Film Festival – New American Cinema Award
The Ring Two Rachel Keller Nominated—Teen Choice Award for Choice Movie Scream
Stay Lila Culpepper
King Kong Ann Darrow International Cinephile Society Award for Best Actress
London Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actress
Saturn Award for Best Actress
Nominated—Australian Film Institute International Award for Best Actress
Nominated—Chicago Film Critics Association Award for Best Actress
Nominated—Empire Award for Best Actress
Nominated—Online Film Critics Society Award for Best Actress
Nominated—Vancouver Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actress
2006 Inland Empire Suzie Rabbit Voice role
The Painted Veil Kitty Fane
2007 Eastern Promises Anna Khitrova Nominated—Saturn Award for Best Actress
Nominated—Vancouver Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actress in a Canadian Film
Funny Games Ann Farber Fangoria Chainsaw Award for Best Actress (2nd place)
2009 The International Eleanor Whitman
Mother and Child Elizabeth Joyce Nominated—Australian Film Institute International Award for Best Actress
Nominated—Independent Spirit Award for Best Supporting Female
2010 You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger Sally
Fair Game Valerie Plame Wilson Nominated—Satellite Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Drama
2011 Dream House Ann Patterson
J. Edgar Helen Gandy
2012 The Impossible Maria Bennett[118] Central Ohio Film Critics Association Award for Best Actress (2nd place)
Cinema Writers Circle Award for Best Actress
Palm Springs International Film Festival – Desert Palm Achievement Award
Pending—Saturn Award for Best Actress
Nominated—AACTA International Award for Best Actress
Nominated—Academy Award for Best Actress
Nominated—Chicago Film Critics Association Award for Best Actress
Nominated—Critics' Choice Award for Best Actress
Nominated—Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association Award for Best Actress
Nominated—Detroit Film Critics Society for Best Actress
Nominated—Empire Award for Best Actress
Nominated—Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Drama
Nominated—Goya Award for Best Actress
Nominated—Houston Film Critics Society for Best Actress
Nominated—San Diego Film Critics Society Award for Best Actress
Nominated—Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role
2013 Movie 43 Samantha Segment "Homeschooled"
Two Mothers Lil
Chalky Herself Documentary
Sunlight Jr. Melissa post-production[119]
Diana Diana, Princess of Wales[120] post-production[121]
2014 Birdman Actress Filming
Television series
Year Film Role Notes
1990 Hey Dad..! Belinda Lawrence Episode: "Eternal Quadrangle"
Episode: "Bulk Bill Dill"
1991 Brides of Christ Frances Heffernan TV miniseries; recurring character
Home and Away Julie Gibson 19 episodes; recurring character
1997–1998 Sleepwalkers Kate Russell 9 episodes; main character

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