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Watts was born in Shoreham-by-Sea, West Sussex,
England, where she lived until the age of eight. 
Her parents, Peter and Myfanwy Watts had separated
when she was four years old, and when she was
seven her father died.  Following her father's
death, her mother relocated the family to the town
of Llangefni (more specifically Llanfawr Farm, a
district of Llangefni), in Northern Wales, where
they lived with Naomi's grandparents, Hugh and
Nikki Roberts, although her mother occasionally
moved the family around Wales and England, usually
to follow boyfriends, but she always ended up
returning to Llangefni.  She lived there until she
was 14.  Then, during a trip to Australia, her
mother became convinced that there was "the land
of opportunities" and moved the family to Sydney,
Australia|Sydney in 1982.  Her grandmother, Nikki,
was Australian, which made it easier to obtain the
documentation necessary, since Naomi and her
family were entitled to Australian citizenship.

Her father was a sound engineer with Pink Floyd
and her mother is described by Watts as a hippie
"with passive-aggressive tendencies" who used to
threaten to send her and her brother to foster
care in order to convince her grandparents to take
care of the family, since her mother had no money
after her father's passing.

In Sydney, she attended several acting schools
(and in the very first lesson in the first school,
she met Nicole Kidman, with whom she shared a taxi
home from class).  In 1986 she took a break from
acting and went to Japan to work as a model, but
the experience was fruitless, and Watts describes
it as one of the worst periods of her life, which
lasted for about four months.  Upon returning to
Australia, Watts went to work for a local
Department store|department store and from there
she went to work as assistant fashion editor with
an Australian fashion magazine.  She only returned
to acting when a casual invitation from a
colleague to participate in a small play rekindled
her passion for the scenic arts and prompted her
to quit her job and dedicate herself completely to
making it as an actress.

She first appeared in television commercials and
then the drama series Home and Away in 1988 in the
role of Julie Gibson. Her first big break came
with the 1995 movie Tank Girl with the part of Jet
Girl.

In 2001, Watts appeared in David Lynch's
Mulholland Dr., a performance which won high
praise but failed to gain her an Academy Award
nomination.
The quality and size of Watts' roles improved
after Mulholland Dr., and she starred in the
highly successful US remake of The Ring, a
Japanese horror movie.
In 2004 in film|2004 she received an Academy Award
nomination for Best Actress for her performance in
the film 21 Grams.

==Filmography==
* For Love Alone (1986)
* Home and Away (1988) (television series)
* Flirting (1991)
* Brides of Christ (1991) (television mini-series)
* Matinee (1993)
* Wide Sargasso Sea (1993)
* Gross Misconduct (1993)
* The Custodian (1993)
* Tank Girl (1995)
* Bermuda Triangle (1996)
* Children of the Corn IV: The Gathering (1996)
* Timepiece (1996)
* Persons Unknown (1996)
* Under the Lighthouse Dancing (1997)
* Sleepwalkers (1997) (television series)
* Dangerous Beauty (1998)
* Babe: Pig in the City (1998)
* The Christmas Wish (1998)
* A House Divided (1998)
* The Hunt for the Unicorn Killer (1999)
* Strange Planet (1999)
* The Wyvern Mystery (2000)
* Ellie Parker (2001)
* Down (2001)
* Mulholland Dr. (2001)
* The Ring (2002)
* Plots with a View (2002)
* The Outsider (2002)
* Rabbits (2002)
* Ned Kelly (2003 movie)|Ned Kelly (2003)
* Le Divorce (2003)
* 21 Grams (2003)
* We Don’t Live Here Anymore (2004) ….
Edith Evans
* Assassination of Richard Nixon, The (2004)
…. Marie Byck
* I Heart Huckabees (2004) …. Dawn Campbell
*
http://www.up4u.net/cms/go.php?pagename=Movie/Stay
 Stay (2004) …. Lila Culpepper
* The Ring Two (2004) …. Rachel Keller
* King Kong (2005 movie)|King Kong (2005) ….
Ann Darrow

==External links==
*imdb name | id=0915208 | name=Naomi Watts
*http://www.naomiwatts.com/ Naomi Watts Experience
fan site
*http://www.up4u.net/naomi_watts/  Actress
Profile: Naomi Watts