Mulholland Drive (2001)
Lynch's 2001 Hollywood nightmare. Started as a TV pilot, became a feature.
Actor: Naomi Watts
Naomi Watts spent ten years getting almost nowhere before David Lynch cast her in Mulholland Drive, in which she plays two versions of the same woman, one hopeful and one destroyed, and the audition scene is a performance within a performance.
21 Grams and The Impossible brought Academy Award nominations, the latter requiring extended underwater work with visible physical injury.
King Kong, The Ring and Birdman fill out the range. She is Australian and has been a close friend of Nicole Kidman since both were teenagers in Sydney.
