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