Children Of The Corn IV, Tank Girl… Watts’ career was headed down a cul-de-suc before she reached Mulholland Drive; and even then, it wasn’t until David Lynch expanded his rejected TV pilot that we got the full measure of how intense she could go.

“In the books I read, the paintings I like, it’s always the darker stuff,” admits Watts, who shockingly descends from jitterbugging Holly-wannabe Betty (the ‘dream’) to junkie-faced washout Diane (the ‘reality’).

Her masturbation moment is almost unwatchably tragic. Beat that.

Greatest Moment: That audition scene.

Also See: Cristina Peck (21 Grams), Ellie Parker (Ellie Parker).