King Kong Cast: Naomi Watts as Ann Darrow
 NAOMI WATTS (Ann Darrow) received an Academy Award nomination for Best Actress for her role in Alejandro Gonzáles Iòárritu's 21 Grams, in which she starred alongside Sean Penn and Benicio Del Toro.
Her performance also garnered Best Actress awards from the Los Angeles Film Critics Association, Southeastern Film Critics Association, Washington, D.C. Area Film Critics Association and San Diego Film Critics Society, as well as Best Actress nominations from the SAG, BAFTA, Broadcast Film Critics Association and International Press Academy.
At the film's premiere at the 2003 Venice International Film Festival, she received the Audience Award (Lion of the Public) for Best Actress. She was also honored by the Palm Springs International Film Festival.
Watts earned widespread acclaim for her work in David Lynch's controversial drama Mulholland Drive, which premiered at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival and brought her Best Actress awards from a number of critics' organizations, including the National Society of Film Critics. In addition, she received the National Board of Review's Best Breakthrough Performance by an Actress in 2001, was named the Female Star of Tomorrow at the 2002 ShoWest Convention and received the Breakthrough Acting Award at the 2002 Hollywood Film Festival.
Watts has been filming nonstop and has an extensive list of upcoming releases, including John Curran's The Painted Veil, starring opposite Edward Norton.
Last year alone Watts had an impressive list of movie roles: We Don't Live Here Anymore, opposite Laura Dern, Peter Krause and Mark Ruffalo (on which she also served as producer); The Assassination of Richard Nixon, opposite Sean Penn and Don Cheadle; and David O. Russell's I Heart Huckabees, with Jude Law and Dustin Hoffman. More recently, she was seen starring in Stay for Marc Forster, opposite Ewan McGregor and Ryan Gosling, and in The Ring Two, the sequel to the 2001 blockbuster The Ring. In addition, Watts also starred in and produced the full-length independent film Ellie Parker, which premiered at the 2005 Sundance Film Festival.
In 2003, Watts starred in the Merchant-Ivory production Le Divorce, in which she joined an ensemble cast, including Kate Hudson, Glenn Close and Stockard Channing; and in 2002, she starred Gore Verbinski's box office hit The Ring. Other film credits include Undertaking Betty and Ned Kelly.
Born in England, Watts moved to Australia at the age of 14 and began studying acting. Her first major film role came in John Duigan's Flirting. Watts also produced and starred in the short film Ellie Parker, which screened in competition at the 2001 Sundance Film Festival and for which she received the Best Actress in a Short Film Award from The Method Fest.
On the small screen, Watts starred in the cable movie The Outsider, for director Randa Haines. Her other television credits include the BBC drama The Wyvern Mystery, opposite Derek Jacobi; the NBC telefilm The Hunt for the Unicorn Killer; the HBO movie Persons Unknown; Timepiece, starring James Earl Jones; and the Australian miniseries Brides of Christ.
Watts currently resides in Los Angeles.
Naomi Watts Profile
--- Born: on 09/28/68 in Shoreham, England
--- Job Titles: Actor
Family
--- Father: Peter Watts.divorced from Watts' mother c. 1972; died in 1981
--- Mother: divorced from Watts' father c. 1972; Watts has characterized her mom as a "hippie"; remarried
Significant Others
--- Companion: Heath Ledger. dated as of Summer 2002
--- Companion: Stephen Hopkins. born c. 1958; together from 1999 to 2001
Education
--- North Sydney Girls' High School, Sydney, Australia
Milestones
1982 At age 14, relocated to Australia with mother and stepfather
1986 Film acting debut, "For Love Alone"
1991 Co-starred as a snobbish schoolgirl in the Australian film "Flirting"; first collaboration with director John Duigan
1991 Had featured role in the Australian TV miniseries "Brides of Christ"; aired on A&E in the USA in 1993
1991 Had regular role on the Australian serial "Home and Away"
1992 Made first Hollywood film, "Matinee"
1992 Reteamed with Duigan in "Wide Sargasso Sea"
1995 Had cult hit as Jet Girl in "Tank Girl"
1997 TV series debut in "Sleepwalkers", a short-lived NBC drama
1998 Was featured in "Dangerous Beauty"
1999 Portrayed the murder victim in the based-on-fact CBS drama "The Hunt for the Unicorn Killer"
1999 Returned to Australia to co-star in "Strange Planet"
2000 Had lead in the British TV drama "The Wyvern Mystery"
2000 Played title role in the independent feature "Ellie Parker"; also co-produced
2001 Portrayed a TV newswoman investigating mysterious elevator accidents in NYC in "Down"
2001 Starred as an aspiring starlet in Hollywood in "Mulholland Dr.", directed by David Lynch; originally shot as a pilot for ABC, project went back into production; with additional footage was premiered at Cannes
2002 Cast as reporter out to break a curse in the thriller "The Ring"
2002 Co-starred with Brenda Blethyn and Alfred Molina in the comedy "Plots with a View"
2002 Had lead role as a widow who takes in a gunslinger in the Showtime period Western "The Outsider"
2003 Cast as Kate Hudson's sister in the James Ivory-directed adapatation of the Diane Johnson novel "Le Divorce" (lensed 2002)
2003 Starred with Sean Penn and Benicio Del Toro in "21 Grams"; earned a SAG nomination for Best Actress; received an Academy Award nomination for Best Actress
2004 Cast alongside boyfriend Heath Ledger and fellow Aussies Orlando Bloom, Geoffrey Rush and Rachel Griffiths in Australian true-crime drama "The Kelly Gang" aka "Ned Kelly"
2004 Cast as Dawn Campbell the spokesmodel girlfriend of Brad Stand (Jude Law), in David O Russell's "I Heart Huckabees"
2004 Co-starred with Mark Ruffalo, Laura Dern and Peter Krause in "We Don't Live Here Anymore" based on the short story by Andre Dubus; screened at Sundance
2004 Reunited with Sean Penn to star in "The Assassination of Richard Nixon" Niels Mueller wrote and directed
2005 Reprised her role of reporter Rachel Keller in "The Ring Two" directed by Hideo Nakata
2005 Starred in Peter Jackson's "King Kong" a remake of 1933 classic (lensed 2005)
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