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나오미 와츠 (Naomi Watts)

나오미 왓츠

성별: 여성
생일: 1968년 09월 28일
직업: 연기자
출신: 영국, 쇼렌햄

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미국과 영국, 호주에 걸쳐 활발한 활동을 하고 있는 나오미 왓츠는 1968년 영국에서 출생, 14세 때 호주로 옮겨오면서 연기수업을 받기 시작했다. 지금까지 그녀는 조지 밀러, 마샬 허스코비츠, 데이빗 린치 등과 함께 작업해 왔다. 나오미가 직접 제작, 출연한 단편영화 <앨리 파커>는 2001년 선댄스영화제 경쟁작으로 선정되기도 했는데 현재 장편영화로 만들어지고 있다. 그녀의 또 다른 출연작으로는 [데인저러스 뷰티], [탱크 걸], [플러팅]등이 있다. 또한 왓츠의 대표적인 TV 출연작은 데릭 자코비와 함께 공연한 BBC의 [와이번 미스테리], 켈리 린치와 함께한 HBO의 [퍼슨 언도운], NBC의 [헌트 포 유니콘 킬러]가 있다.

"I thought, My god, this is a really one-dimensional character: happy-go-lucky, sweet, perky, dimples in her cheeks, stars in her eyes, bounce in her step. She doesn't belong in a story뾱he belongs on the side of a cereal box in 1952!"
- Naomi Watts on her role in Mulholland Drive

Naomi Watts had already been a working actress for over a decade when she earned notice as a promising newcomer in David Lynch's Cannes Film Festival prizewinner Mulholland Drive (2001). Born in Britain and raised in Australia, Watts began acting in her teens, landing her first film role in For Love Alone (1986). Watts subsequently appeared with future Hollywood headliners Nicole Kidman and Thandie Newton in John Duigan's disarming teen romance Flirting (1991).

Watts's next film with Duigan, Wide Sargasso Sea (1992), was not so well received. After her first taste of Hollywood with Joe Dante's schlock movie homage Matinee (1992), Watts nabbed a starring role as Jimmy Smits's disturbed student in George Miller's little seen courtroom drama Gross Misconduct (1993). Watts then starred as Jet Girl to Lori Petty's Tank Girl (1995), but the science fiction fantasy suffered an ignominious box office fate.

After a series of TV movies and thrillers, including Sleepwalkers (1997) and Children of the Corn IV (1996), Watts appeared in Marshall Herskovitz's high-toned Venetian courtesan costumer Dangerous Beauty (1998) and successful TV docudrama The Hunt for the Unicorn Killer (1999). Watts's breakthrough finally arrived when David Lynch cast her in his ABC pilot Mulholland Drive. Though ABC canceled the project in 1999 after Lynch turned in a typically mood-drenched work, StudioCanal financed its transformation into a feature that debuted to acclaim at Cannes in 2001.

A tortured-comic Los Angeles dreamscape akin to Lost Highway, Mulholland Drive featured Watts as the blonde half of a female duo caught in a mystery of shifting identities. Drawing attention for her not-for-network TV love scene with co-star Laura Harring, Watts also earned praise as a rising "new" actress. ~ Lucia Bozzola, All Movie Guide