Following in her best friend's footsteps

Naomi Watts is certainly no overnight sensation. The Australian actress has been in some 20 roles over the past 15 years in her long slow burn towards Hollywood stardom.

What changed everything for the 34-year-old was David Lynch casting her in his surreal psychodrama Mulholland Drive in 2001. With its depiction of psychological breakdown it made Hollywood sit up and take notice of this quietly-spoken luminous blond.