Naomi Watts Biography

Naomi Watts had already been a working actress for over a decade when she earned notice as a promising newcomer in David Lynch's Cannes Film Festival prizewinner Mulholland Drive (2001).Born September 28th, 1968, Watts began acting in her teens, landing her first film role in For Love Alone (1986). Watts subsequently appeared with future Hollywood headliners Nicole Kidman and Thandie Newton in John Duigan's disarming teen romance Flirting (1991). Watts's next film with Duigan, Wide Sargasso Sea (1992), was not so well received. After her first taste of Hollywood with Joe Dante's schlock movie homage Matinee (1992), Watts nabbed a starring role as Jimmy Smits's disturbed student in George Miller's little seen courtroom drama Gross Misconduct (1993). Watts then starred as Jet Girl to Lori Petty's Tank Girl (1995), but the science fiction fantasy suffered an ignominious box office fate. After a series of TV movies and thrillers, including Sleepwalkers (1997) and Children of the Corn IV (1996), Watts appeared in Marshall Herskovitz's high-toned Venetian courtesan costumer Dangerous Beauty (1998) and successful TV docudrama The Hunt for the Unicorn Killer (1999). Watts's breakthrough finally arrived when David Lynch cast her in his ABC pilot Mulholland Drive. Though ABC canceled the project in 1999 after Lynch turned in a typically mood-drenched work, StudioCanal financed its transformation into a feature that debuted to acclaim at Cannes in 2001. A Los Angeles dreamscape akin to Lost Highway, Mulholland Drive featured Watts as the blonde half of a female duo caught in a mystery of shifting identities. Drawing attention for her not-for-network TV love scene with co-star Laura Harring, Watts also earned praise as a rising "new" actress.Though ignored for an Oscar nomination, Watts's tour-de-force dual performance earned her numerous accolades and critics' awards, igniting her career. Working steadily in the wake of Mulholland Drive, Watts scored a box-office as well as critical success a year later with The Ring (2002), the Hollywood remake of the Japanese horror blockbuster. Starring Watts as an intrepid reporter investigating the origins of a lethal videotape, The Ring overcame studio doubts to become a sleeper hit, solidifying Watts's new star status. Watts subsequently donned period dress for the Showtime western The Outsider (2002), and to co-star alongside fellow Aussie Heath Ledger in The Kelly Gang (2003). Balancing her genre work with potentially headier fare guided by notable directors, Watts also appeared with Kate Hudson, Glenn Close and Stockard Channing in the Merchant-Ivory romantic comedy Le Divorce (2003), and won a leading role opposite formidable actors Sean Penn and Benicio Del Toro in Alejandro González Iñárritu's 21 Grams (2003).In 2004, Watts worked opposite Mark Ruffalo for the independent film We Don't Live Here Anymore, and reteamed with Sean Penn for The Assassination of Richard Nixon. She landed the starring role of Ann Darrow in director Peter Jackson's remake of King Kong (2006), and starred in the 2006 remake of The Painted Veil. Watts was praised for her work as a British midwife who accidentally gets involved in the Russian mafia in director David Cronenberg's psychological thriller Eastern Promises. Watts starred along with Clive Owen in 2009's The International, for which she played the part of an assistant district attorney who participates in a plan to rob a bank, and co-starred alongside Samuel L. Jackson, Annette Benning, and Kerry Washington for the drama Mother and Child. Watts was later cast in Dream House (2011), a thriller starring Daniel Craig and Rachel Weisz, and worked with Leonardo DiCaprio in the 2011 biopic J. Edgar. In 2012 she played the mother of a family trapped in a catastrophic storm in The Impossible, garnering a Best Actress nomination for her work in the film. ~ Lucia Bozzola, Rovi

• 1. Maria: We have to help that little boy. Even if it's the last thing that we could do.
  From The Impossible. Submitted by Glyncel Joy A (2 months ago)

• 1. Maria: : Lucas, look at this place. They're so busy in here. You get to go and do something. Go help people. You're good at it.
  From The Impossible. Submitted by Lucas M (2 months ago)

• 1. Kitty Fane: As if a woman ever loved a man for his virtue.
  From The Painted Veil. Submitted by Marina N (2 months ago)

• 1. Noah: I can't imagine being stuck down a well all alone like that. How long could you survive?
  2. Rachel Keller: Seven days.
  From The Ring. Submitted by Kelly E (3 months ago)

• 1. Maria: Am I dead?
  From The Impossible. Submitted by Erick T (4 months ago)

• 1. Kitty Fane: If no one spoke unless they had something to say, the human race would lose the power of speech.
  From The Painted Veil. Submitted by Frances H (4 months ago)

• 1. Valerie Plame Wilson: It's the White House. Do you seriously think you pick a fight with the White House and win? They'll bury us!
  2. Joe Wilson: They bury us if we don't!
  From Fair Game. Submitted by Frances H (4 months ago)

• 1. Valerie Plame Wilson: When Kammel was executed in 95 the team just drifted apart. They're all saying the same thing. There is no weapons program.
  From Fair Game. Submitted by Frances H (4 months ago)

• 1. Maria: Close your eyes, think of something nice.
  From The Impossible. Submitted by Teong Kai L (4 months ago)

• 1. Maria: [tsunami comes] The Children!
  From The Impossible. Submitted by João M (4 months ago)

• 1. Maria: Lucus, go and help people.
  From The Impossible. Submitted by Chris P (5 months ago)

• 1. Samara Morgan: MOMMY!
  2. Rachel Keller: I'm not your F***ING mommy!
  From The Ring Two. Submitted by Jesus H (10 months ago)

• 1. Samara: Seven days.
  2. Rachel Keller: [gasps]
  From The Ring. Submitted by Andy B (10 months ago)

• 1. Anna Farber: Why don't you just kill us?
  2. Peter: You shouldn't forget the importance of entertainment.
  From Funny Games. Submitted by Thomas R (14 months ago)

• 1. Lila Culpepper: There's too much beauty to quit.
  From Stay. Submitted by Dipta C (17 months ago)

• 1. J. Edgar Hoover: You remember that file we created on his wife?
  2. Helen Gandy: Mrs. Roosevelt?
  3. J. Edgar Hoover: Would you make a copy for me please.
  From J. Edgar. Submitted by Dennis A (18 months ago)

• 1. Kitty Fane: I've never thought of you in that way.
  2. Walter Fane: I think I improve greatly upon acquaintance.
  From The Painted Veil. Submitted by Nastassia J (18 months ago)

• 1. Rachel Keller: All you have to do is call my name, and I'll follow your voice.
  From The Ring Two. Submitted by Javis C (19 months ago)

• 1. Helen Gandy: All the admiration in the world can't fill the spot where love goes.
  From J. Edgar. Submitted by Ian and-Dan L (20 months ago)

• 1. Rachel Keller: I think before you die, you see the ring...
  From The Ring. Submitted by Javis C (20 months ago)

• 1. Rachel Keller: I'm not your F***ING mommy!
  From The Ring Two. Submitted by Virginia K (22 months ago)

• 1. Noah: I can't imagine being stuck down a well all alone like that. How long could you survive?
  2. Rachel Keller: Seven days.
  From The Ring. Submitted by Virginia K (22 months ago)

• 1. Aidan: What happened to the girl?
  2. Rachel Keller: Samara?
  3. Aidan: Is that her name?
  4. Rachel Keller: Mm-hmm.
  5. Aidan: Is she still in the dark place?
  6. Rachel Keller: No. We set her free.
  7. Aidan: ...You helped her?
  8. Rachel Keller: Yeah.
  9. Aidan: Why did you do that?
  10. Rachel Keller: What's wrong, honey?
  11. Aidan: You weren't supposed to help her. Don't you understand, Rachel? She never sleeps.
  From The Ring. Submitted by Virginia K (22 months ago)

• 1. Christine: You know what I thought when mom died? I couldn't understand how you could talk to people again, how you could laugh... again. I couldn't understand how you could play with us. And no, no that's a lie, life does not just go on.
  From 21 Grams. Submitted by Chris P (2 years ago)

• 1. Anna Farber: He only wants to have a game.
  2. Peter: Funny game.
  From Funny Games. Submitted by Chris P (2 years ago)

• 1. Rachel Keller: He watched the tape.
  2. Noah: Who? who watched it?
  3. Male Teen #1: Our son
  From The Ring. Submitted by Chris P (2 years ago)

• 1. Rachel Keller: I think before you die, you see the ring...
  From The Ring. Submitted by Chris P (2 years ago)

• 1. Ann Darrow: Good things never last Mr. Denham.
  From King Kong. Submitted by Chris P (2 years ago)

• 1. Sally: There is no such thing as predicting the future!
  From You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger. Submitted by Chris P (2 years ago)

• 1. Dr. Zahraa: How do you do it? Lie to someone to their face? Huh?
  2. Valerie Plame Wilson: You have to know, know why you're lying... And never forget the truth.
  From Fair Game. Submitted by Chris P (2 years ago)