Olivia Williams
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- July 26, 1968 (age 58)
- Birthplace
- Camden Town, London, England, UK
Biography
Olivia Haigh Williams (born July 26, 1968) is a British actress who has appeared in British and American films and television. Williams studied drama at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School for two years followed by three years at the Royal Shakespeare Company. Her first significant screen role was as Jane Fairfax in the British television film Emma (1996), based on Jane Austen's novel. She made her film debut in 1997's The Postman, followed by Rushmore (1998) and The Sixth Sense (1999). Williams also acted in the British films Lucky Break (2001), The Heart of Me (2002) and An Education (2009). She continued acting in films such as The Ghost Writer (2010), Hanna (2011), Anna Karenina (2012), Hyde Park on Hudson (2012), Maps to the Stars (2014), Victoria & Abdul (2017), and The Father (2020). From 2017 to 2019, she played Emily Silk in the science fiction television series Counterpart. In 2022, Williams portrayed Camilla Parker Bowles in the Netflix historical drama The Crown in its fifth season, a role she is set to reprise in its sixth and final season.
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Filmography
The Good Daughter
TV · as Harriet 'Gamma' Quinn · 6 eps
Young Sherlock
TV · 3 eps
Monster: The Ed Gein Story
TV · as Alma Reville · 2 eps
Another End
Movie · as Juliette
The Trouble with Jessica
Movie · as Beth
Pigs
Movie · as Mum
Dune: Prophecy
TV · as Reverend Mother Tula Harkonnen · 14 eps
Unknown Belize
TV · as Narrator · 4 eps
Funny Woman
TV · as Gloria Balderstone, Barbara's mother · 3 eps
The Impact
Movie · as The President
My Name Is Leon
Movie · as Sylvia
The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power
TV · as Winterbloom (voice) · 1 ep
The Nevers
TV · as Lavinia Bidlow · 6 eps
The Wheel of Time
TV · as Queen Morgase Trakand · 1 ep
The Father
Movie · as The Woman
Homemade
TV · as Queen (voice) · 1 ep
Nyet!
Movie · as Mrs. Pyke
Victoria & Abdul
Movie · as Baroness Churchill
National Theatre Archive: Mosquitoes
Movie · as Alice
The Escape
Movie · as Sarah
The Halcyon
TV · as Lady Priscilla Hamilton · 8 eps
Counterpart
TV · as Emily Burton Silk · 20 eps
The White King
Movie · as Sophia (voice)
The Crown
TV · as Camilla Parker Bowles · 9 eps
Man Up
Movie · as Hilary
Emma, Change the Locks
Movie · as Emma
Sabotage
Movie · as Caroline
Maps to the Stars
Movie · as Cristina Weiss
Salting the Battlefield
Movie · as Belinda Kay
Seventh Son
Movie · as Mam Ward
Altar
Movie · as Meg
Magpie
Movie · as The Woman
Manhattan
TV · as Liza Winter · 23 eps
Justin and the Knights of Valour
Movie · as Queen (voice)
The Last Days on Mars
Movie · as Kim Aldrich
The Guest
Movie · as Marguerite
Now Is Good
Movie · as Mother
Anna Karenina
Movie · as Countess Vronsky
Hyde Park on Hudson
Movie · as Eleanor Roosevelt
Playhouse Presents
TV · as Dorothy Green · 1 ep
Hanna
Movie · as Rachel
Wild Bill
Movie · as Kelly
Collaborator
Movie · as Emma Stiles
OK! TV
TV · 2 eps
Case Sensitive
TV · as Charlie Zailer · 4 eps
The Ghost Writer
Movie · as Ruth Lang
Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll
Movie · as Betty Dury
Terriers
TV · as Miriam Foster · 1 ep
An Education
Movie · as Miss Stubbs
Dollhouse
TV · as Adelle DeWitt · 25 eps
Flashbacks of a Fool
Movie · as Grace Scott
Miss Austen Regrets
Movie · as Jane Austen
Broken Lines
Movie · as Zoe
Damage
Movie · as Michelle Cahill
Krakatoa: The Last Days
Movie · as Johanna Beijerinck
X-Men: The Last Stand
Movie · as Dr. Moira MacTaggert (uncredited)
Tara Road
Movie · as Ria
Valiant
Movie · as Victoria (voice)
Agatha Christie: A Life in Pictures
Movie · as Agatha Christie
The Heart of Me
Movie · as Madeleine
The Hotel In Amsterdam
Movie · as Annie
To Kill a King
Movie · as Lady Anne Fairfax
Peter Pan
Movie · as Mary Darling
Below
Movie · as Claire
The Body
Movie · as Sharon Golban
Lucky Break
Movie · as Annabel
The Man from Elysian Fields
Movie · as Andrea
Four Dogs Playing Poker
Movie · as Audrey
Born Romantic
Movie · as Eleanor
Dead Babies
Movie · as Diana
The Making of 'Rushmore'
Movie · as Self
Jason and the Argonauts
TV · as Hera · 2 eps
The Sixth Sense
Movie · as Anna Crowe
Spaced
TV · as Irate Cyclist · 1 ep
Rushmore
Movie · as Rosemary Cross
The Postman
Movie · as Abby
Emma
Movie · as Jane Fairfax
Friends
TV · as Felicity · 1 ep
The Ruth Rendell Mysteries
TV · as Jennifer Norris · 1 ep
Van der Valk
TV · as Irene Kortman · 1 ep