Olivia Williams
Olivia Haigh Williams (born 26 July 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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- 2024 · Dune: Prophecy as Reverend Mother Tula Harkonnen
- 2024 · The Trouble with Jessica as Beth
- 2024 · Another End as Juliette
- 2022 · The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power as Winterbloom (voice)
- 2022 · My Name Is Leon as Sylvia
- 2022 · The Impact as The President
- 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 · National Theatre Live: Mosquitoes as Alice
- 2017 · The Halcyon as Lady Priscilla Hamilton
- 2016 · The Crown as Camilla Parker Bowles
- 2016 · The White King as Sophia (voice)
- 2015 · Man Up as Hilary
- 2014 · Altar as Meg
- 2014 · Seventh Son as Mam Ward
- 2014 · Manhattan as Liza Winter
- 2014 · Magpie as The Woman
- 2014 · Maps to the Stars as Cristina Weiss
- 2014 · Sabotage as Investigator Caroline Brentwood
- 2014 · Salting the Battlefield as Belinda Kay
- 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 · Hyde Park on Hudson as Eleanor Roosevelt
- 2012 · Now Is Good as Mother
- 2012 · Anna Karenina as Countess Vronsky
- 2011 · Wild Bill as Kelly
- 2011 · Collaborator as Emma Stiles
- 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
- 2010 · Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll as Betty Dury
- 2009 · An Education as Miss Stubbs
- 2009 · Dollhouse as Adelle DeWitt
- 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
- 2005 · Valiant as Victoria (voice)
- 2004 · Agatha Christie: A Life in Pictures as Agatha Christie
- 2004 · The Hotel In Amsterdam as
- 2004 · The Heart of Me as Madeleine
- 2003 · Peter Pan as Mrs. Darling
- 2003 · To Kill a King as Lady Anne Fairfax
- 2002 · Below as Claire
- 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 · 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