Courtney Thorne-Smith

. In 2004 she received an Academy Award nomination for Best Actress for her performance in the film 21 Grams. She has also starred in movies such as Summer School (1987), Revenge of the Nerds II: Nerds in Paradise (1987), and Side Out (1990). 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. Courtney made her first movie appearance in the 1986 feature film drama, Lucas. 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. Her most notable television credit was playing Alison Parker on the nighttime drama Melrose Place (1992-1997). Other notable TV roles included Georgia Thomas on Ally McBeal (1997-2000) and, currently, wife Cheryl on According to Jim. Her first big break came with the 1995 movie Tank Girl with the part of Jet Girl.

She was born in San Francisco, California. She first appeared in television commercials and then the drama series Home and Away in 1988 in the role of Julie Gibson. Courtney Thorne-Smith (born November 8, 1967) is an American actress. 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. 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 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.

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). 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. Her grandmother, Nikki, was Australian, which made it easier to obtain the documentation necessary, since Naomi and her family were entitled to Australian citizenship. 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 lived there until she was 14. 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. 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).