Olivia Williams
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
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
76
Gender
Female
Birthday
1968-07-26 (56 years old)
Place of Birth
Camden Town, London, England, UK
Acting

2024

Dune: Prophecy as Reverend Mother Tula Harkonnen

2024

Another End as Juliette

2023

Funny Woman as Gloria Balderstone, Barbara's mother

2022

The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power as Winterbloom (voice)

2022

The Impact as The President

2022

My Name Is Leon as Sylvia

2021

The Wheel of Time as Queen Morgase Trakand

2021

The Nevers as Lavinia Bidlow

2020

The Father as The Woman

2020

Homemade as Queen (voice)

2019

Nyet! as Mrs. Pyke

2017

Counterpart as Emily Burton Silk

2017

Victoria & Abdul as Baroness Churchill

2017

The Halcyon as Lady Priscilla Hamilton

2017

The Escape as Sarah

2016

The Crown as Camilla Parker Bowles

2016

The White King as Sophia (voice)

2015

Man Up as Hilary

2014

Manhattan as Liza Winter

2014

Seventh Son as Mam Ward

2014

Sabotage as Investigator Caroline Brentwood

2014

Maps to the Stars as Cristina Weiss

2014

Salting the Battlefield as Belinda Kay

2014

Altar as Meg

2014

Magpie as The Woman

2013

The Last Days on Mars as Kim Aldrich

2013

Justin and the Knights of Valour as Queen (voice)

2013

The Guest as Marguerite

2012

Anna Karenina as Countess Vronsky

2012

Now Is Good as Mother

2012

Hyde Park on Hudson as Eleanor Roosevelt

2011

OK! TV as Not available

2011

Hanna as Rachel

2011

Case Sensitive as Charlie Zailer

2011

Wild Bill as Kelly

2011

Collaborator as Emma Stiles

2010

Terriers as Miriam Foster

2010

The Ghost Writer as Ruth Lang

2010

Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll as Betty Dury

2009

Dollhouse as Adelle DeWitt

2009

An Education as Miss Stubbs

2008

Flashbacks of a Fool as Grace Scott

2008

Miss Austen Regrets as Jane Austen

2008

Broken Lines as Zoe

2005

Valiant as Victoria (voice)

2005

Tara Road as Ria

2003

Peter Pan as Mary Darling

2003

To Kill a King as Lady Anne Fairfax

2002

Below as Claire

2001

The Body as Sharon Golban

1999

Spaced as Irate Cyclist

1999

The Sixth Sense as Anna Crowe

1998

Rushmore as Rosemary Cross

1997

The Postman as Abby

1996

Emma as Jane Fairfax

1994

Friends as Felicity

1987

The Ruth Rendell Mysteries as Jennifer Norris

1972

Van der Valk as Irene Kortman

NaN

The Original Monster as Alma Reville Hitchcock

2007

Damage as Michelle Cahill

2006

Krakatoa: The Last Days as Johanna Beijerinck

2006

X-Men: The Last Stand as Dr. Moira MacTaggert

2004

Agatha Christie: A Life in Pictures as Agatha Christie

2004

The Heart of Me as Madeleine

2004

The Hotel In Amsterdam as Not available

2001

Lucky Break as Annabel

2000

Born Romantic as Eleanor

NaN

The Good Daughter as Harriet 'Gamma' Quinn

2000

Dead Babies as Not available