

From 2005 to 2016 she was in a relationship with American actor Liev Schreiber, with whom she has two sons. Despite significant media attention, Watts is reticent about her personal life. She has been an ambassador for the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS and Pantene's Beautiful Lengths.

Magazines such as People and Maxim have included her on their lists of the world's most beautiful women. Watts is particularly known for her work in remakes and independent productions with dark or tragic themes, as well as portrayals of characters that endure loss or suffering. Watts also continued to act in blockbusters, with appearances in the Divergent franchise (2015–2016), and she ventured into television with the Showtime mystery drama series Twin Peaks (2017) and the biographical limited series The Loudest Voice (2019).

In the 2010s, she starred in such films as Birdman (2014), St. Her profile continued to grow with starring roles in I Heart Huckabees (2004), King Kong (2005), Eastern Promises (2007), and The International (2009).įor her role as Maria Bennett in the disaster film The Impossible (2012), Watts received another Academy Award nomination for Best Actress. She was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance as a grief-stricken mother in Alejandro González Iñárritu's film 21 Grams (2003). Watts then played a tormented journalist in the horror remake The Ring (2002). This role started her rise to international prominence.

After moving to the United States, Watts 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. 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). Naomi Ellen Watts (born 28 September 1968) is a British actress.
