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