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Birth Place: Shoreham, Kent, England, UK
Birthday:September 28, 1968
Height:5' 5"
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- Daughter of Peter Watts, sound engineer for Pink Floyd until 1974.
- Best friends with Nicole Kidman, since a casting call for commercial when they were girls.
- Moved to Australia when she was 14.
- Is a vegetarian.
- She once appeared in an Australian television commercial turning down a date with Tom Cruise for her mum's lamb roast.
- Was named one of the 50 Most Beautiful People by People Magazine in 2002.
- Her brother Ben Watts is a well-known photographer. He's been living in the US since 1994.
- Featured on the cover of the Australian Empire Magazine March 2003 for Women of the Year 2002.
- Voted the 14th Sexiest Female Movie Star in the Australian Empire Magazine September 2002.
- When her cell phone sounds, it plays Pink Floyd's "Money".
- Her father died when she was seven.
- Accepted the role for 21 Grams (2003) without reading the script first.
- She met Heath Ledger on the set of new historical epic Ned Kelly (2003), and the pair dated until May 2004. He accompanied her to the 2004 Oscar Ceremony.
- She has a Yorkshire Terrier named Bob.
- Her favorite actresses are Meryl Streep, Jodie Foster and Julianne Moore. For music, her favorite artists/bands are Fiona Apple, Coldplay, Björk, Radiohead, Cat Stevens and Pink Floyd.
- Moved in with best friend Nicole Kidman after Kidman spilt up from husband Tom Cruise.
- Favorite comfort food is baked beans.
- Director David Lynch asked her to be in the movie Mulholland Dr. (2001) after picking out her headshot from a stack of actors.
- Ended relationship with Heath Ledger [May 2004]
- Favorite sports to watch are soccer, boxing, and tennis
- Claims she wanted to become an actor after seeing the movie Fame (1980).
- Spent some of her early childhood in Anglesey, Wales, where her mother is from.
- Starred in and produced 2001's Ellie Parker (2001), which was made into a kind of cult classic about a struggling actress in Hollywood and the nightmares she encountered. The movie resurfaced in 2005 at the SunDance Film Festival and is set to be re-released in December of 2005.
- Ranked #76 on Forbes 2005 Power in Entertainment List.
- Had an horrific fall on the New Zealand set of King Kong (2005). She fell from a height into a ditch, to the shock of the cast and crew. She thanked her rigorous practice of yoga for saving her from any permanent damage.
- Parents: Peter & Myfanwy (Miv) Watts
- Grandparents: Hugh & Nikki Roberts
- Her parents divorced when she was four.
- When she was 20 years old, she was an assistant editor at "Follow Me" magazine in Australia. After a friend begged her to try acting, she quit her job instead and never looked back.
- Was accompanied by her boyfriend Liev Schreiber to the King Kong (2005) US-premiere.
- Model for David Yurman [2006]
- When she was 18, she tried her hand at modeling and was hired by an agency in Japan.
- Was among the guests at Nicole Kidman's and Keith Urban's wedding
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