Naomi Ellen Watts (born September 28, 1968) is a British actress. She has been nominated for two Academy Awards for Best Actress for her performances as a grief-stricken mother in Alejandro González Iñárritu's film 21 Grams (2003), and as Maria Bennett in the disaster film The Impossible (2012).
After her family moved to Australia, she made her film debut there in the drama For Love Alone (1986) and then appeared in three television series, Hey Dad..! (1990), Brides of Christ (1991), and Home and Away (1991), and the film Flirting (1991). After moving to the United States, she initially struggled as an actress, taking roles in small-scale films until she starred in David Lynch's psychological thriller Mulholland Drive in 2001 as an aspiring actress. This role started her rise to international prominence.
She has served as an ambassador for the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS and Pantene's Beautiful Lengths.
She had a relationship with Australian actor Heath Ledger from August 2002 to May 2004.
In 2005, she began a relationship with American actor Liev Schreiber. Their son Sasha was born in 2007, and their daughter Kai, who was assigned male at birth, was born in 2008. On 26 September 2016, Watts and Schreiber announced their split after 11 years together.
She began dating actor Billy Crudup in 2017, after they met on the set of the Netflix drama series Gypsy. The couple married on June 9, 2023.
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Primarily2025 The Housewife
2025 Harmonia
2025 The Burning Season as June Engle
2025 Larrikins as Albatross (voice)
2025 An Oprah Winfrey Special: The Menopause Revolution as Self
2025 The Friend as Iris Executive Producer
2024 Emmanuelle as Margot
2024 The Friend
2024 Periodical as Self
2023 Lynch/Oz as Betty Elms / Diane Selwyn (archive footage) (uncredited)
2022 Goodnight Mommy as Mother Executive Producer
2022 Infinite Storm as Pam Bales Producer
2021 This Is the Night as Marie Dedea Executive Producer
2021 The Desperate Hour as Amy Carr Producer
2021 Boss Level as Jemma Wells
2021 Penguin Bloom as Sam Bloom Producer
2019 Luce as Amy Edgar
2019 Ophelia as Queen Gertrude / Mechtild
2019 The Wolf Hour as June Leigh
2018 Vice as News Anchor (uncredited)
2018 Beyond Boundaries: The Harvey Weinstein Scandal as Self (archive footage)
2017 Do Not Pick Up Hitchhikers as Self
2017 A Bloody Finger in Your Mouth as Self
2017 The Glass Castle as Rose Mary Walls
2017 The Book of Henry as Susan Carpenter
2017 Chuck as Linda Wepner
2017 I Am Heath Ledger as Self
2016 Shut In as Mary Portman
2016 3 Generations as Maggie Executive Producer
2016 The Sea of Trees as Joan Brennan
2016 Demolition as Karen Moreno
2016 Allegiant as Evelyn Johnson-Eaton
2015 Birdman: All-Access (A View From the Wings) as Self
2015 While We're Young as Cornelia Schrebnick
2015 Insurgent as Evelyn Johnson-Eaton
2014 Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) as Lesley
2014 St. Vincent as Daka Parimova
2013 Diana as Princess Diana
2013 Sunlight Jr. as Melissa
2013 Adore as Lil Executive Producer
2013 Movie 43 as Samantha (segment "Homeschooled")
2012 Wide-Awake as The Makeup Artist
2012 The Impossible as Maria Bennett
2011 Woody Allen: A Documentary as Self
2011 J. Edgar as Helen Gandy
2011 Dream House as Ann Patterson
2010 You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger as Sally
2010 Fair Game as Valerie Plame
2009 Mother and Child as Elizabeth
2009 Heath Ledger: A Tribute as Self
2009 The International as Eleanor Whitman
2008 Funny Games as Ann Executive Producer
2007 Eastern Promises as Anna Ivanovna Khitrova
2006 The Painted Veil as Kitty Fane Producer
2006 Inland Empire as Suzie Rabbit (voice)
2006 The Eighth Blunder of the World as Self
2006 Recreating the Eighth Wonder: The Making of 'King Kong' as Self
2005 King Kong: Peter Jackson's Production Diaries as Self
2005 King Kong as Ann Darrow
2005 Stay as Lila Culpepper
2005 The Ring Two as Rachel Keller
2005 Ellie Parker as Ellie Parker Producer
2004 The Present as Self
2004 I ♥ Huckabees as Dawn Campbell
2004 We Don't Live Here Anymore as Edith Evans Producer
2004 The Assassination of Richard Nixon as Marie Bicke
2004 The Making of ‘Mulholland Drive’ as Self
2004 21 Grams: In Fragments as Self
2003 21 Grams as Cristina Peck
2003 Le Divorce as Roxeanne de Persand
2003 Ned Kelly as Julia Cook
2002 Undertaking Betty as Meredith Mainwaring
2002 The Outsider as Rebecca Yoder
2002 The Ring as Rachel Keller
2002 Rabbits as Suzie
2001 Down as Jennifer Evans
2001 Mulholland Drive as Betty Elms / Diane Selwyn
2001 Ellie Parker as Ellie Parker Producer
2001 Never Date an Actress as The Shallow Girlfriend
2000 The Wyvern Mystery as Alice Fairfield
1999 Strange Planet as Alice
1999 The Hunt for the Unicorn Killer as Holly Maddux
1999 Mulholland Dr. as Betty
1998 The Christmas Wish as Renee
1998 Babe: Pig in the City as Additional Character Voices (voice)
1998 Dangerous Beauty as Giulia De Lezze
1997 Under the Lighthouse Dancing as Louise
1996 Persons Unknown as Molly
1996 Timepiece as Mary Chandler
1996 Children of the Corn IV: The Gathering as Grace Rhodes
1996 Bermuda Triangle as Amanda
1995 Tank Girl as Jet Girl
1994 The Custodian as Louise
1993 Gross Misconduct as Jennifer Carter
1993 Wide Sargasso Sea as Fanny Grey
1993 Matinee as Shopping Cart Starlet
1991 Flirting as Janet Odgers
1986 For Love Alone as Leo's Girlfriend