In Peter Jackson’s 2005 King Kong, Naomi Watts plays the character Ann Darrow.
Ann is an unemployed vaudeville performer whom filmmaker Carl Denham recruits for his expedition. The journey takes her and the crew to Skull Island, where she encounters Kong and becomes central to the film’s emotional story.
The role echoes Fay Wray’s Ann Darrow from the 1933 King Kong, but Jackson’s version gives the character a more developed background as a performer and a stronger relationship with the giant ape. Watts’s performance was one of the film’s major human elements amid its extensive digital effects.
Ann Darrow is sometimes confused with other famous adventure-film heroines because the 2005 movie shares actors and genre conventions with several earlier franchises. However, Ann is the character name in both the 1933 original and Jackson’s remake.