Naomi Watts

In 2004 she received an Academy Award nomination for Best Actress for her performance in the film 21 Grams. White is well known as a pet enthusiast and animal-rights activist. The quality and size of Watts' roles improved after Mulholland Dr., and she starred in the highly successful US remake of The Ring, a Japanese horror movie. She was inducted into the Television Hall of Fame in 1995 and has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame alongside the star of her late husband Allen Ludden. In 2001, Watts appeared in David Lynch's Mulholland Dr., a performance which won high praise but failed to gain her an Academy Award nomination. Overall, White has won five Emmy Awards, three American Comedy Awards (including a Lifetime Achievement Award in 1990), and two Viewers for Quality Television Awards. Her first big break came with the 1995 movie Tank Girl with the part of Jet Girl. The Golden Girls was immensely successful and ran from 1985 through 1992.

She first appeared in television commercials and then the drama series Home and Away in 1988 in the role of Julie Gibson. When NBC canceled Mama's Family in 1985, White would soon leave the show and score perhaps her most memorable role as the ditzy Rose Nylund on The Golden Girls, a show about the lives of four widowed or divorced senior citizens in Miami. She only returned to acting when a casual invitation from a colleague to participate in a small play rekindled her passion for the scenic arts and prompted her to quit her job and dedicate herself completely to making it as an actress. From 1983 through 1986, she played Ellen Jackson on the moderate hit show Mama's Family along with future Golden Girls co-star Rue McClanahan. Upon returning to Australia, Watts went to work for a local department store and from there she went to work as assistant fashion editor with an Australian fashion magazine. In her later career, White played Sue Ann Nivens on The Mary Tyler Moore Show from 1973 to 1977. In 1986 she took a break from acting and went to Japan to work as a model, but the experience was fruitless, and Watts describes it as one of the worst periods of her life, which lasted for about four months. Both Password and Pyramid was created by White's friend, Bob Stewart.

In Sydney, she attended several acting schools (and in the very first lesson in the first school, she met Nicole Kidman, with whom she shared a taxi home from class). White also made frequent game show appearances on What's My Line? (starting in 1955), To Tell the Truth (starting in 1961), Match Game (1973-1982) and Pyramid (starting in 1982). Her father was a sound engineer with Pink Floyd and her mother is described by Watts as a hippie "with passive-aggressive tendencies" who used to threat to send her and her brother to foster care in order to convince her grandparents to take care of the family, since her mother had no money after her father's passing. In the 1970s and 80s, White appeared on the updated versions of Password on NBC -- Password Plus and Super Password.. Her grandmother, Nikki, was Australian, which made it easier to obtain the documentation necessary, since Naomi and her family were entitled to Australian citizenship. White is perhaps better known for her appearances on the hit gameshow Password, in which she was a regular as a panelist from 1961 through 1975; it was through her early appearances on Password that she met the show's host, Allen Ludden, whom she married in 1963 and remained with until his death in 1981. Then, during a trip to Australia, her mother became convinced that there was "the land of opportunities" and moved the family to Sydney in 1982. She also had her own show briefly in 1954 with the original Betty White Show.

She lived there until she was 14. White's early television roles included her portrayal of Elizabeth on Life With Elizabeth in 1953 and as Vicki Angel on Date With the Angels in 1957 and 1958. Following her father's death, her mother relocated the family to the town of Llangefni (more especifically Llanfawr Farm, a district of Llangefni), in Northern Wales, where they lived with Naomi's grandparents, Hugh and Nikki Roberts, although her mother occasionally moved the family around Wales and England, usually to follow boyfriends, but she always ended up returning to Llangefni. Elizabeth Marion (Betty) White (born January 17, 1922) is a notable American television actress with a career spanning over 50 years. Her parents, Peter and Myfanwy Watts had separated when she was four years old, and when she was seven her father died. Watts was born in Shoreham-by-Sea, Kent, England, where she lived until the age of eight.

Naomi Watts (born September 28, 1968) is an English-born Australian actress and producer. Ann Darrow. King Kong (2005) …. Anymore (http://www.up4u.net/cms/go.php?pagename=Movie/Anymore) (2004) ….

Rachel Keller. The Ring Two (2004) …. Lila Culpepper. Stay (http://www.up4u.net/cms/go.php?pagename=Movie/Stay) (2004) ….

Dawn Campbell. I Heart Huckabees (2004) …. Marie Byck. Assassination of Richard Nixon, The (2004) ….

Edith Evans. We Don’t Live Here Anymore (2004) …. 21 Grams (2003). Le Divorce (2003).

Ned Kelly (2003). Rabbits (2002). The Outsider (2002). Plots with a View (2002).

The Ring (2002). Mulholland Dr. (2001). Down (2001). Ellie Parker (2001).

The Wyvern Mystery (2000). Strange Planet (1999). The Hunt for the Unicorn Killer (1999). A House Divided (1998).

The Christmas Wish (1998). Babe: Pig in the City (1998). Dangerous Beauty (1998). Sleepwalkers (1997) (television series).

Under the Lighthouse Dancing (1997). Persons Unknown (1996). Timepiece (1996). Children of the Corn IV: The Gathering (1996).

Bermuda Triangle (1996). Tank Girl (1995). The Custodian (1993). Gross Misconduct (1993).

Wide Sargasso Sea (1993). Matinee (1993). Brides of Christ (1991) (television mini-series). Flirting (1991).

Home and Away (1988) (television series). For Love Alone (1986).