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