Olivia Williams
Acting • Born 1968-07-26
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.
Filmography
79 credits
The Sixth Sense
Movie • 1999
Anna Crowe
Tara Road
Movie • 2005
Ria
Four Dogs Playing Poker
Movie • 2000
Audrey
Rushmore
Movie • 1998
Rosemary Cross
Agatha Christie: A Life in Pictures
Movie • 2004
Agatha Christie
The Ghost Writer
Movie • 2010
Ruth Lang
An Education
Movie • 2009
Miss Stubbs
The Heart of Me
Movie • 2004
Madeleine
Below
Movie • 2002
Claire
The Postman
Movie • 1997
Abby
Flashbacks of a Fool
Movie • 2008
Grace Scott
The Body
Movie • 2001
Sharon Golban
Born Romantic
Movie • 2000
Eleanor
Lucky Break
Movie • 2001
Annabel
Valiant
Movie • 2005
Victoria (voice)
Dead Babies
Movie • 2000
Diana
Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll
Movie • 2010
Betty Dury
The Man from Elysian Fields
Movie • 2001
Andrea
Miss Austen Regrets
Movie • 2008
Jane Austen
To Kill a King
Movie • 2003
Lady Anne Fairfax
Hanna
Movie • 2011
Rachel
Now Is Good
Movie • 2012
Mother
Wild Bill
Movie • 2011
Kelly
Anna Karenina
Movie • 2012
Countess Vronsky
Hyde Park on Hudson
Movie • 2012
Eleanor Roosevelt
Krakatoa: The Last Days
Movie • 2006
Johanna Beijerinck
Collaborator
Movie • 2011
Emma Stiles
Sabotage
Movie • 2014
Caroline
Justin and the Knights of Valour
Movie • 2013
Queen (voice)
Broken Lines
Movie • 2008
Zoe
Maps to the Stars
Movie • 2014
Cristina Weiss
The Last Days on Mars
Movie • 2013
Kim Aldrich
The Impact
Movie • 2022
The President
My Name Is Leon
Movie • 2022
Sylvia
Salting the Battlefield
Movie • 2014
Belinda Kay
Peter Pan
Movie • 2003
Mary Darling
Seventh Son
Movie • 2014
Mam Ward
Altar
Movie • 2014
Meg
Emma
Movie • 1996
Jane Fairfax
Man Up
Movie • 2015
Hilary
Another End
Movie • 2024
Juliette
The Trouble with Jessica
Movie • 2024
Beth
Magpie
Movie • 2014
The Woman
The Hotel In Amsterdam
Movie • 2004
Annie
The Guest
Movie • 2013
Marguerite
The White King
Movie • 2016
Sophia (voice)
X-Men: The Last Stand
Movie • 2006
Dr. Moira MacTaggert
Victoria & Abdul
Movie • 2017
Baroness Churchill
Nyet!
Movie • 2019
Mrs. Pyke
The Father
Movie • 2020
The Woman
Damage
Movie • 2007
Michelle Cahill
National Theatre Archive: Mosquitoes
Movie • 2017
Alice
The Making of 'Rushmore'
Movie • 2000
Self
National Theatre Live: Mosquitoes
Movie • 2017
Alice
The Escape
Movie • 2017
Sarah
Pigs
Movie • 2024
Mum
Emma, Change the Locks
Movie • 2015
Emma
Spaced
TV • 1999
Irate Cyclist
Van der Valk
TV • 1972
Irene Kortman
Dollhouse
TV • 2009
Adelle DeWitt
OK! TV
TV • 2011
Case Sensitive
TV • 2011
Charlie Zailer
Manhattan
TV • 2014
Liza Winter
Dune: Prophecy
TV • 2024
Reverend Mother Tula Harkonnen
The Ruth Rendell Mysteries
TV • 1987
Jennifer Norris
Friends
TV • 1994
Felicity
Terriers
TV • 2010
Miriam Foster
The Halcyon
TV • 2017
Lady Priscilla Hamilton
The Crown
TV • 2016
Camilla Parker Bowles
Counterpart
TV • 2017
Emily Burton Silk
Jason and the Argonauts
TV • 2000
Hera
The Nevers
TV • 2021
Lavinia Bidlow
Homemade
TV • 2020
Queen (voice)
The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power
TV • 2022
Winterbloom (voice)
Funny Woman
TV • 2023
Gloria Balderstone, Barbara's mother
The Good Daughter
TV
Harriet 'Gamma' Quinn
The Wheel of Time
TV • 2021
Queen Morgase Trakand
Monster: The Ed Gein Story
TV • 2025
Alma Reville
Unknown Belize
TV • 2024
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