Di another day

Naomi Watts is no stranger to recreating real-life characters on the big screen. But even playing Helen Gandy, Hoover's faithful secretary in in J Edgar, or CIA operative Valerie Plame in Fair Game - both hardly household faces - won't have quite prepared her for the "visibility" of her latest movie assignment

The British born, Aussie raised actress has just started filming Diana, formerly called Caught in Flight, which, according to the press release, is an account of the "most fulfilling years" of the late Princess Diana.

Watts, at 44 actually eight years older than Diana when the latter died in a Paris car crash 15 years ago, is joined in the film, directed by Oliver (Downfall) Hirschbiegel) by Douglas Hodge, Juliet Stevenson and Naveen Andrews.

Below is a first image by Laurie Sparham of Watts as the tragic Princess wearing a gown by Azagury and jewels by Chopard.