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  Naomi Watts - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Naomi Watts (born September 28, 1968) is an Academy Award-nominated British-Australian actress.
Watts was born in Shoreham, Kent, England, where she lived until the age of eight.
Watts' career began in Australian television, as she appeared in commercials and television melodramas as in Home and Away and Brides of Christ.
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 NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Naomi Watts
Naomi Watts (born September 28, 1968) is an Oscar-nominated British-Australian actress and producer, most famous for her starring role in The Ring films, as well as her portrayal of Ann Darrow in Peter Jackson's 2005 remake of the 1933 horror epic, King Kong.
Watts admits that she is "coming to terms with the fact that I really need to have some time off and slow down a bit." After completing her next film, she plans to spend a few months in Europe "trying to spend time with my boyfriend," fellow Aussie Heath Ledger.
Naomi is trying to maintain a degree of normalcy in her frenetic life, and though reluctant to talk much about her personal life, she admits that she is house hunting when she has the time, everywhere from Los Angeles to Sydney.
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 Naomi Watts Nude
Naomi Watts on the couch wearing a see-through top as the camera pans down to reveal that her jeans are open and she has a hand inside her panties, masturbating.
Naomi Watts standing up and opening her shirt to reveal her breasts and then turning around to face a guy and letting her shirt fall to the side while in the shadows from Gross Misconduct.
Naomi Watts of The Ring fame briefly showing her breasts a few times as she has sex with a guy on a bed from The Outsider.
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 Naomi Watts interview - Naomi Watts on Mulholland Drive
Watts plays Betty Elms, fresh off the plane from Canada, who finds herself temporarily diverted from her earnest, sparkling hopes for movie stardom by the unexpected appearance of Rita (Laura Elena Harring), the amnesia-stricken survivor of a traumatic car accident.
Naomi Watts was born in Shoreham, England in 1968.
Watts adds that "it was hard not to cry in a situation like that" because she felt so vulnerable.
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 Naomi Watts
Naomi Watts' early childhood was spent in England, where her father was a sound engineer for Pink Floyd.
Watts worked as a model, and it was five years before her second film, Flirting, with Nicole Kidman and Thandie Newton.
Frustrated, Watts has said she was about ready to "jack it in" when David Lynch hired her for a TV pilot he was shooting.
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 Heavenly Celebrities: Naomi Watts Nude
Naomi Watts was born in Shoreham, England on September 28, 1968 to Peter and Miv Watts.
Peter Watts, the sound engineer to Pink Floyd, died when Naomi was seven and she began to follow her mother and her brother around England until they settled in Australia when she was fourteen.
Watts completed her first comedy in I Heart Huckabees (2004) for director David O. Russell, playing a superficial spokes model - a break from her usual intense and dramatic roles she is known for.
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 Exclusive Interview - Naomi Watts for "King Kong"
Watts, who spent several months in New Zealand shooting the film, said that it was ultimately it was "a very cool" experience and she has no regrets taking this on.
Watts has just one other film due for release next year, a marked contrast to Kong, as she stars in a film version of W. Somerset Maugham's The Painted Veil, which she filmed in China, opposite Liev Schreiber and Edward Norton.
Watts says this kind of experience, as well as King Kong, reminds her of why she loves to act, the chance, she says, to immerse herself in another world.
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 interview - Naomi Watts on Le Divorce
Watts is would-be poet Roxy, who had been living in Paris for several years with her French husband, who inexplicably deserts her while she is pregnant with their second child.
Watts was partially attracted to the film because "it meant a free trip to Paris and eating all that wonderful French food", she laughs.
Watts adds that there are certain aspects of her character she can relate to.
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 Naomi Watts
Born in Shoreham, England, Watts moved to Australia when she was 14 years old.
Watts acquired the acting bug at an early age while watching her stage actress mother perform.
Inspired by Kidman's success in Hollywood, Watts ventured to the States to make her fortune, but her dreams were cut short with parts in films that ranged from being largely ignored by the viewing public like Gross Misconduct (1993), to the big budget bomb, Tank Girl (1995).
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 AskMen.com - Naomi Watts
We'd like to say that we can bypass certain inherent impulses and judge others solely on their personality, but when a woman such as Naomi Watts does a great lesbian scene in a movie that befuddled us for the rest of our days, we immediately give her special consideration.
Naomi Watts was born in Shoreham, England, on September 28, 1968.
After the unfortunate death of her father, Naomi and her family moved to Australia four years later, when she was 14 years old.
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 Naomi Watts at tedstrong.com
Naomi Watts is an accomplished actress, working steadily in the U.S., England and Australia.
Born in England, Watts moved to Australia at 14 and began acting while attending school.
There she is discovered by Betty (Naomi Watts), a wholesome Midwestern blonde who has come to the City of Angels seeking fame as an actress.
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 NPR : Naomi Watts: Robbed!
NPR.org, February 27, 2006 ·; Naomi Watts is the flaxen screen star you may have admired in films such as Mulholland Dr., I Heart Huckabees and perhaps even The Ring.
That one reason is Watts, and a shot of her in a simple white dress, eyes brimming with tears, is more riveting than all the digital effects combined.
Imagine this singularly daunting technical challenge: Naomi Watts acting her heart out, wrenchingly -- against a blue screen, a giant mechanical ape hand, and the guy who played Gollum pretending to be a monstrous primate.
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 NAOMI WATTS FILM STAR KING KONG MOVIE 2005 | PETER JACKSON, JACK BLACK, ADRIEN BRODY.
Watts was then cast in what was hoped would be her breakthrough, an ABC TV series created by and directed by David Lynch.
Watts displayed a similar charisma in the Sundance-screened short "Ellie Parker" (2001), about an Australian actress trying to carve a career in L.A. Having to switch gears from auditioning for the role of a Southern belle to trying out for the part of a street junkie, she displayed her amazing range and prodigious talent.
Watts was equally good in the relaxed, sophistacted Merchant-Ivory production of Diane Johnson's bestselling novel "Le Divorce" (2003), playing an aspiring American poetess in contemporary Paris who is abandoned by her husband, a French scoundrel who jilts her while she's pregnant.
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 Naomi Watts
Naomi Watts is being shunted around from room to room in the midst of Toronto's frenetic film festival.
The masturbation scene was incredibly difficult, and was absolutely mortifying and humiliating; it's just a very difficult thing to do." To do the scene, Watts describes her character at this point as "being full of self-loathing when she couldn't get out of a horrible, deep, dark psychosis.
As tough as it was to shoot those scenes, Watts feels enriched by the experience, admitting to having learned a lot in the process, "and hopefully those experiences will translate to another experience with another director." Most importantly, that has to do with trust.
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 Naomi Watts Pics
Watts said after she was nominated for an Oscar for her role in 21 Grams, the art house hit, that she was seeking "tougher smarter roles sometimes only found in smarter books".
Friends of Naomi also liked the fact that, at 39, he's a year older than she is - as opposed to her previous boyfriend, Heath Ledger, who is 11 years younger than Watts.
Watts recently admitted she was desperate for children, but was worried it might be too late to conceive.
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 AskMen.com - Naomi Watts Photo
Naomi Watts has continued her steady rise over the past year.
In the coming year, Naomi Watts is set to star alongside Edward Norton in The Painted Veil, adapted from the W. Somerset Maugham novel.
It may not be the next summer blockbuster, but it's the kind of quality work that Watts at last has the luxury of pursuing, and she'll certainly have greater opportunity to show off her skills as time goes by.
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 Pictures of naomi watts
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 in Britain and raised in Australia, 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).
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 Naomi Watts: See what people are saying right now on Technorati
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 Boston.com / A&E / Movies / Naomi Watts
TORONTO -- Naomi Watts didn't ease her way into the role of a desperate, grieving mother in "21 Grams." Day one on the set, director Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu had her take on one of the most intense scenes in a screenplay riddled with them.
The director approached Watts while she was shooting "The Ring." She agreed immediately, even without reading a script, based on her admiration for his first film, "Amores Perros," which was nominated for a best foreign language film Oscar in 2001.
The challenge for Watts was conveying Cristina's struggle to maintain her equilibrium -- before and after the tragedy that gives the film its dramatic motor.
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Watts was born in Shoreham-by-Sea, West Sussex, England, where she lived until the age of eight.
Following her father's death, her mother relocated the family to the town of Llangefni, in Northern Wales, where they lived with Naomi's grandparents, Hugh and Nikki Roberts.
In 1986 she took a break from acting and went to Japan to work as a model, but the experience was fruitless, which lasted for about four months.
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 Guide to Naomi Watts King Kong
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Naomi Watts knew the role of Ann Darrow in "King Kong" was one that demanded a strong set...
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 SPLICEDwire | Naomi Watts feature for "Mulholland Drive" (2001)
But as Betty becomes involved with a femme fatale amnesia victim (Laura Harding) and embroiled in investigating the woman's dangerous past, layers of seeming naivete peel away, revealing her to be shrewder than she lets on.
Watts is a petite, slender blonde with the posture of a military guard and an inquisitive personality, peppered with playfulness and sensuality.
Watts' strung-out performance in these later scenes is astonishing to watch, especially in contrast to the giddy girlishness that comes before it.
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 Cinema Confidential News: 12/13/05 - INTERVIEW: Naomi Watts on "King Kong"
NAOMI: I don’t know, because it hasn’t happened yet, but one of my fears in the beginning of taking on the part was that this is such an iconic movie and an iconic part, and how do you survive those comparisons that are naturally going to be drawn.
NAOMI: It was as if he was a character, like playing opposite any other man. He didn’t have any words, but he had a huge amount of expression, be it physical or emotional, so I just was reacting to him the whole time and in as truthful a way as possible.
NAOMI: I mean, that’s Andy again and all his time in Rwanda and the London Zoo, studying the apes.
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 Naomi Watts Pictures, Articles, Biography, Filmography, News, Videos, Wallpapers,
Born September 28, 1968 - 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).
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 New York Daily News - Movies - Naomi Watts, '21' and counting   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Watts says Kidman has been a friend since they met on a TV commercial audition when they were teenagers.
Born in England, Watts and her family moved to Sydney in 1980.
Audiences first got a sense of Watts in David Lynch's 2001 "Mulholland Drive," in which she played a woman who was both an ingenue and a drugged-out wastoid.
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 Naomi Watts Photos - Naomi Watts News - Naomi Watts Information
Although she had been acting for more than fifteen years, Naomi Watts broke through to stardom when she was tapped by David Lynch to portray an aspiring starlet in "Mulholland Drive" (2001), his darkly nightmarish vision of Los Angeles.
Naomi's salary for King Kong was reportedly $5,000,000.
Naomi and her mother moved to Australia when she was 14 years old.
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 Kong is King.net | King Kong Cast | Naomi Watts as Ann Darrow
Her star-turning performance in the dual role of Betty Elms/Diane Selwyn has garnered an array of critic's awards and the attention of some major players in Hollywood and beyond.
Watts is now enjoying greater choice of film roles and played (with great success)the lead in Gore Verbinski's remake of the Japanese horror classic Ring, The (2002).
She has been cast in an array of films with only the best directors and actors and continues to stun critics and amaze filmgoers with her versatility and range.
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