Naomi Watts Age, Height, Husband, Net Worth & Biography

Naomi Watts is a British actress best known as Betty Elms in Mulholland Drive, as Rachel Keller in The Ring and as Ann Darrow in King Kong. Born on September 28, 1968, in Shoreham, Kent, England, Watts, 58, struggled for years in Hollywood before her breakthrough in David Lynch’s Mulholland Drive, and she has since earned two Academy Award nominations, for 21 Grams and The Impossible, and a career in film and television that includes The Watcher and Feud: Capote vs. The Swans.

Quick Facts

Full Name	Naomi Ellen Watts
Age	58 years old
Date of Birth	September 28, 1968
Birthplace	Shoreham, Kent, England
Height	5 ft 4 in (163 cm)
Partner	Husband Billy Crudup (m. 2023); previously in a relationship with Liev Schreiber (2005-2016)
Net Worth	Approx. $35 million (Celebrity Net Worth, 2025)
Known For	Mulholland Drive, The Ring, 21 Grams, King Kong, The Impossible, The Watcher, Feud, The Painted Veil

Who Is Naomi Watts?

Naomi Watts is an actress whose breakthrough came after a decade of struggle in Hollywood. As Betty Elms, an aspiring actress who arrives in Los Angeles and becomes entangled in a mystery, in David Lynch’s Mulholland Drive (2001), Watts played a woman who is innocent, ambitious and, in the end, haunted, and her performance, which required her to play two different characters, earned her wide acclaim and launched her career. She is also known as Rachel Keller, a journalist who investigates a cursed videotape, in The Ring (2002), a horror film that became a box-office hit, and as Ann Darrow, an actress who is taken to Skull Island, in King Kong (2005), a film directed by Peter Jackson.

Beyond those roles, Watts has shown a wide range. She played Cristina Peck, a former drug addict who is involved in a car accident, in 21 Grams (2003), a performance that earned her an Academy Award nomination for Best Actress, and she played Maria Bennett, a mother who is separated from her family by a tsunami, in The Impossible (2012), a performance that earned her a second Academy Award nomination for Best Actress. She starred in The Painted Veil (2006), in Eastern Promises (2007), in Birdman (2014), in St. Vincent (2014), in The Watcher (2022), in which she played Nora Brannock, and in Feud: Capote vs. The Swans (2024), in which she played Babe Paley. Like Nicole Kidman, her close friend, Watts is an actress who grew up in Australia and who became a star in Hollywood.

Early Life & Background

Naomi Ellen Watts was born in Shoreham, Kent, England, the daughter of Myfanwy, an antiques dealer, and Peter Watts, a sound engineer who worked for Pink Floyd. Her father died when she was seven, and her mother moved the family to Australia, where Watts grew up in Sydney. She attended Mosman High School in Sydney, and she began acting as a teenager, appearing in the film For Love Alone (1986), in which she played Leo, and in the television series Hey Dad..! (1990).

She moved to the United States in the early 1990s to pursue a career in acting, and she struggled for years, working as a model and as a food caterer while auditioning for roles. She appeared in the film Tank Girl (1995), in Children of the Corn IV: The Gathering (1996), and in Ellie Parker (2001), before her breakthrough in Mulholland Drive, when she was 33. She became friends with Nicole Kidman when they were both young actresses in Australia, appearing together in the film Flirting (1991).

Career

Watts’s career in film includes For Love Alone, Flirting, Tank Girl, Children of the Corn IV: The Gathering, Mulholland Drive, The Ring, 21 Grams, The Assassination of Richard Nixon (2004), King Kong, The Painted Veil, Eastern Promises, Funny Games (2007), Divergent (2015), St. Vincent, The Impossible, Birdman, Gypsy (2017), The Glass Castle (2017), Ophelia (2018), and Goodnight Mommy (2022). She was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress for 21 Grams and for The Impossible, and she has won a Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role for The Impossible.

On television, Watts has played in Sleepwalkers (1997-1998), in Twin Peaks (2017), in Gypsy, in which she played Jean Holloway, a therapist, in The Loudest Voice (2019), in which she played Gretchen Carlson, in The Watcher, and in Feud: Capote vs. The Swans, in which she played Babe Paley. She was in a relationship with Liev Schreiber, an actor, from 2005 to 2016, and they have two sons together: Alexander and Samuel. She married Billy Crudup, an actor, in 2023. She is known for her work as an actress, and for a career that has lasted for more than thirty-five years.

Facts About Naomi Watts

• She played Betty Elms in Mulholland Drive (2001) and Rachel Keller in The Ring (2002).
• She earned Academy Award nominations for 21 Grams (2003) and The Impossible (2012).
• She played Ann Darrow in King Kong (2005) and Babe Paley in Feud: Capote vs. The Swans (2024).
• She is a close friend of Nicole Kidman, whom she met when they were young actresses in Australia.
• She married Billy Crudup in 2023, after a relationship with Liev Schreiber from 2005 to 2016.

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