Naomi Watts
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Naomi Ellen Watts (born 28 September 1968) is an Inglis actress an film producer.[1] She made her screen debut in the Australian drama film For Love Alone (1986) an then appeared in the Australie telly series' Hey Dad..! (1990), Brides of Christ (1991), Home and Away (1991), an the comin-o-age comedy-drama film Flirting (1991). Efter muiving tae the Unitit States, Watts appeared in films, includin Tank Girl (1995), Children of the Corn IV: The Gathering (1996), an Dangerous Beauty (1998), and had the lead role in the television series Sleepwalkers (1997–1998).
Efter years as a strugglin actress, Watts came tae attention in David Lynch's psychological thriller Mulholland Drive (2001). The follaein year, she enjoyed box-office success wi her role as Rachel Keller in The Ring (2002), the remak o a successfu Japanese horror film. She then received nominations at the Academy Awairds and the Screen Actors' Guild Awairds in the Best Actress categories for her portrayal o 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), King Kong (2005), a remak o the 1933 film o the same name, the crime-thriller Eastern Promises (2007), an the Tom Tykwer-directit thriller The International (2009). Syne then, Watts has portrayed Valerie Plame Wilson in the biografical drama Fair Game (2010) an Helen Gandy in Clint Eastwood's biografical drama J. Edgar (2011). For her leadin role as Maria Bennett in the disaster film The Impossible (2012), she received forder nominations for the Academy Awaird an Screen Actors Guild Awaird for Best Actress an a nomination for the Gowden Globe Awaird for Best Actress.
In 2002, Watts wis includit in People magazine's 50 Maist Beautiful Fowk. In 2006, she becam a Goodwill Ambassador for Jynt Unitit Naitions Programme on HIV/AIDS, that helps tae raise awareness o AIDS-relatit issues. She haes pairticipatit in several fundraisers for the cause, an she is presentit as an inaugural member o AIDS Reid Reebin Awairds.