How much is Naomi Watts worth?
| Net Worth: | $30 Million |
|---|---|
| Profession: | Professional Actress |
| Date of Birth: | September 28, 1968 |
| Country: | United Kingdom |
| Height: | 1.64 m |
About Naomi Watts
She is the flamboyant actress who has been in blockbusters from Hollywood including Mulholland Drive, 21 Grams, and King Kong. This English-born, soft-spoken Australian import gives every role she plays a three-dimensional wow factor. And despite having two children with her, this blonde beauty isn’t about to slow down any time soon.
The Dark Side Of The Moon
Naomi and her brother were reared by a sound engineer father who worked for Pink Floyd and a mother who was an actress and interior designer. Naomi was born in Shoreham, England. Although her parents divorced when she was young, Naomi’s father passing away when she was just seven years old was the actual tragedy.
After his passing, the family relocated around England before relocating to Australia when Naomi was 14 years old.
Naomi urged her mother to enroll her in acting classes before she started to land multiple commercial appearances because she didn’t have many acquaintances in her new country. When Naomi was 18 years old, the acting lessons paid off when she was cast in her first feature film, For Love Alone.
Following the movie, Naomi continued to apply for commercial parts and eventually met Nicole Kidman, another aspiring actress, at one of her auditions. The two got along right away and brought their off-screen connection to the big screen in 1991 when they both got parts in Flirting.
Naomi went on to make appearances in a number of obscure Australian TV shows and low-budget movies, albeit she was still not a big hit. But in 2001, when she was chosen for the highly acclaimed David Lynch film Mulholland Drive, her fortunes changed.
Both insiders in the industry and fans started to notice the English/Aussie beauty with some genuine acting prowess.
I Heart Watts
When she starred in the box office thriller The Ring in 2002, her burgeoning career was effectively secured. Even though the picture wasn’t a critical hit, it made more than $100 million at the box office and put Naomi’s name on the lips of every filmmaker in town.
She then went on to star in a string of gritty movies like King Kong, I Heart Huckabees, and 21 Grams, for which she received her first Academy Award nomination for Best Actress (2005).
Now a legitimate Hollywood heavyweight, Naomi’s love life began to heat up.
From 2002 to 2004, she began a turbulent relationship with the late actor and fellow Australian Heath Ledger. Despite their allegedly contentious breakup, the two remained friends, and Naomi was devastated by his drug overdose death in January 2008.
She started dating actor Liev Schreiber in 2005. The couple had their first child, a son named Alexander Pete, two years later. Samuel Kai, their second child, was born in 2008. After their breakup, Naomi Watts wed actor Billy Crudup in 2017.
Mega-Watt
Following The International, Naomi starred in the drama You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger, which premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in 2009, and the thriller The International, which starred Clive Owen. She continues to appear in complex dramas like Dream House (2011) and Fair Game (2010), in which she played exposed C.I.A. agent Valerie Plame.
Although Naomi’s profession didn’t advance as swiftly as that of her best friend, she has caught up. It’s obvious that her personal and professional problems have only prepared her to withstand anything life throws at her because she has a sizzling hot career and a regular starring position as mom and Liev’s leading woman.
“I’m not someone who can walk out of the house looking great. I’m a functional person, who goes out of the house in sweatpants and wet hair.”
