Olivia Williams
55 movies · 23 TV shows
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- Jul 26, 1968 (age 58)
- Place of birth
- Camden Town, London, England, UK
- Also known as
- Olivia Haigh 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).
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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.
Profiles IMDb
Known for
Olivia Williams: movies and TV shows
Acting (78)
- Upcoming
- 2026
- 2025
- 2024
- 2024 Pigs
as Mum
- 2024 The Trouble with Jessica
as Beth
- 2024 Another End
as Juliette
- 2024
- 2023
- 2022
- 2022 My Name Is Leon
as Sylvia
- 2022 The Impact
as The President
- 2021
- 2021
- 2020 The Father
as The Woman
- 2020
- 2019 Nyet!
as Mrs. Pyke
- 2017
- 2017 National Theatre Archive: Mosquitoes
as Alice
- 2017 Victoria & Abdul
as Baroness Churchill
- 2017 The Escape
as Sarah
- 2017
- 2016
- 2016 The White King
as Sophia (voice)
- 2015 Emma, Change the Locks
as Emma
- 2015 Man Up
as Hilary
- 2014 Altar
as Meg
- 2014 Seventh Son
as Mam Ward
- 2014
- 2014 Magpie
as The Woman
- 2014 Maps to the Stars
as Cristina Weiss
- 2014 Sabotage
as Caroline
- 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
- 2012
- 2011 Wild Bill
as Kelly
- 2011 Collaborator
as Emma Stiles
- 2011
- 2011 Hanna
as Rachel
- 2010
- 2010 The Ghost Writer
as Ruth Lang
- 2010 Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll
as Betty Dury
- 2009 An Education
as Miss Stubbs
- 2009
- 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 (uncredited)
- 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 Annie
- 2004 The Heart of Me
as Madeleine
- 2003 Peter Pan
as Mary 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 Diana
- 2000 Four Dogs Playing Poker
as Audrey
- 2000
- 1999
- 1999 The Sixth Sense
as Anna Crowe
- 1998 Rushmore
as Rosemary Cross
- 1997 The Postman
as Abby
- 1996 Emma
as Jane Fairfax
- 1994
- 1987
- 1972
Talk shows and appearances (2)
- 2011 OK! TV
2 episodes
- 2000