What is the name of the protagonist played by Naomi Watts in The Ring?

Rachel Keller is the protagonist played by Naomi Watts in The Ring.

The 2002 film follows Rachel, a journalist who investigates a mysterious videotape after learning that viewers supposedly die seven days after watching it. Her investigation leads to the story of Samara Morgan, the supernatural figure connected to the tape and the Morgan family.

Rachel is a reporter and a mother, and her personal connection to her son Aidan gives the investigation an urgent family dimension. Naomi Watts’s performance helped establish the film as a major early-2000s horror success and introduced the character to a wide international audience.

A common mix-up is answering “Samara,” because Samara is the central ghostly presence and the image most associated with the film. Samara Morgan is not the protagonist. The Ring is a remake of Hideo Nakata’s Japanese film Ringu, released in 1998, which was itself based on Koji Suzuki’s 1991 novel Ring.