Famous actress Naomi Watts was born on September 28, 1968 in Shoreham, Kent, England of British and Australian descent. In fact, when her father died in 1976 the rest of the family moved to Australia where Naomi Watts’ career in acting started.
So just how rich is Naomi Watts? Sources agree that Naomi has a net worth currently estimated at $16 million, accumulated not only from her successful career as an actor, but which has also included her work as a film producer.
Naomi Watts Net Worth $16 Million
Naomi Watts was educated at North Sydney Girls High School, where she attended acting classes, and which was also the place where Naomi met her best friend, nowadays known as one of the most famous actors in the world, Nicole Kidman. Naomi began acting in some minor roles on television. Her first big and very successful role came in 1986 with the movie “For Love Alone”, following which Watts continued increasing her net worth with performances in “Flirting”, “Matinee” and “The Custodian”.
Naomi decided to continue her career in acting, and moved to the United States. Naomi Watts’ net worth has subsequently been increased with her performances in such movies as “Tank Girl”, “Children of the Corn IV: The Gathering”, and “Dangerous Beauty”. Naomi managed to enlarge her net worth with appearances on TV, too. Most notably, from 1997 to 1998 she had a role in “Sleepwalkers”, a popular TV show, as well as on some others: “Brides of Christ”, “Hey Dad”, and “Home and Away”.
The year of 2001 was very successful for Naomi Watts, as she had the chance to perform in “Mulholland”, for which role she received a couple of awards. However, until the production of this movie, Naomi Watts had been enlarging her net worth with performances in “Under the Lighthouse Dancing” (1997), “Babe: Pig in the City” (1998), “The Hunt for the Unicorn Killer” (1999), and “The Wyvern Mystery” (2000) among others. Naomi Watts considerably boosted her net worth in 2002, when she appeared in a the movies “Rabbits”, “The Outsider”, “The Ring”, and “Plots with a View”. She was especially well received for her appearance in “The Ring”. In the 2000s Naomi appeared in many other successful movies, including “I Heart Huckabees”, “Stay”, “King Kong”, “The Painted Veil”, “The International”, “Mother and Child”, “Dream House”, “The Impossible”, “Movie 43”, and “Diana”.
Naomi Watts is now to appear in The Divergent Series trilogy, scheduled in 2015, 2016 and 2017.
Actually, Naomi Watts is also a famous person in magazines, for example in 2002 she was labelled among the 50 Most Beautiful People according to People Magazine.
Naomi is a noted philanthropist, and in 2006 was selected by the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS as a Goodwill Ambassador, her role being to provide more information on problems related to AIDS. Moreover, in 2011, alongside Hugh Jackman and Isla Fisher, two other famous Australian actors, Naomi contributed to the charity assisting the victims of the 2010 Haiti earthquake.
In her personal life, Naomi Watts is very religious, and she has been practicing Transcendental Meditation techniques. She has been in a relationship with Liev Schreiber since 2005, and the couple has two sons.
