Naomi Watts Parents: Meet Myfanwy Edwards Roberts And Peter Watts

Naomi Watts was born to her parents, Myfanwy Edwards Roberts and Peter Watts.

The couple split in 1972 after two children, Ben Watts and Naomi Watts.

Myfanwy Edwards Roberts

Myfanwy was an actress, born of an Australian mother and a Welsh father.

Peter Watts

Peter was a British father who used to work for Pink Floyd as a road manager and sound engineer.

He later married Patricia Deighton, following his divorce from Myfanwy.

Peter was found dead in his London flat, on August 2, 1976. He had reportedly died of heroin overdose.

Who Is Naomi Watts?

Naomi Watts is an English actress, born on September 28, 1968.

She made her acting debut in the drama Love Alone (1986) and went ahead to appear in three TV series, Hey Dad..! (1990), Brides of Christ (1991), and Home and Away (1991).

Watts came to fame in 2002 when she played the role of a tormented journalist in the horror film The Ring.

Some of her notable films include I Heart Huckabees (2004), King Kong (2005), Eastern Promises (2007), The International (2009), and The Impossible (2012).

Others include Birdman (2014), St. Vincent (2014), While We’re Young (2015), The Glass Castle (2017), and Luce (2019).

Her movie roles have earned her several awards such as the Screen Actors Guild Award, the National Society of Film Critics Award, the Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award, the Saturn Award, the London Film Critics’ Circle Award, the Independent Spirit Special Distinction Award and the Glamour Award.

People Magazine had ranked her tops on the list of the world’s most beautiful women.

Watts is also an ambassador for the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS and Pantene’s Beautiful Lengths.