Naomi Watts

Naomi Ellen Watts was born on September 28, 1968, in Shoreham, England. After an unsettled childhood, her family found a home in Australia, where Watts persuaded her mother to pay for her acting classes.

After bit parts in commercials, she landed her first role in the Australian film For Love Alone (1986), starring opposite Sam Neill and Hugo Weaving. Watts met her lifelong best friend Nicole Kidman when they both auditioned for a bikini commercial and would later go on to both star in Flirting (1991).

Watt's made her big break in Hollywood when David Lynch cast her in Mulholland Drive (2001), a surreal indie hit. From there she made notable appearances in Alejandro González Iñárritu's 21 Grams (2003), Peter Jackson's King Kong (2005) and played Princess Diana in 2013's Diana.