Academy-award winning Australian actress Naomi Watts says she "connects" with her dead father by listening to his laugh on music group Pink Floyd's classic "Dark Side of The Moon" album.

Naomi's dad Peter Watts, who was Pink Floyd's sound engineer, died tragically at the age of 30 of a suspected heroin overdose.

Watts who acted in "The Ring" part one and two, told Britain's Saturday Times magazine: "It gets to me", according to celebrity portal Femalefirst.

The actress said: "Whatever I'm feeling at the time, I think, it tends to connect with me. I mean, there have been times when I've laughed out loud with him and got the joke - whatever that was, but I was right there."

She added: "And then there have been times when it's just incredibly mysterious. Like, who is this person? How strange! And I wonder if we would have got on."