Olivia Williams
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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
Credits
The Sixth Sense (1999)
as Anna Crowe
Seventh Son (2014)
as Mam Ward
The Father (2020)
as The Woman
Peter Pan (2003)
as Mary Darling
The Ghost Writer (2010)
as Ruth Lang
Anna Karenina (2012)
as Countess Vronsky
Justin and the Knights of Valour (2013)
as Queen (voice)
The Postman (1997)
as Abby
Maps to the Stars (2014)
as Cristina Weiss
Hanna (2011)
as Rachel
Victoria & Abdul (2017)
as Baroness Churchill
An Education (2009)
as Miss Stubbs
Sabotage (2014)
as Caroline
Rushmore (1998)
as Rosemary Cross
Now Is Good (2012)
as Mother
Below (2002)
as Claire
The Last Days on Mars (2013)
as Kim Aldrich
Valiant (2005)
as Victoria (voice)
The Trouble with Jessica (2024)
as Beth
The Man from Elysian Fields (2001)
as Andrea
Hyde Park on Hudson (2012)
as Eleanor Roosevelt
Man Up (2015)
as Hilary
Flashbacks of a Fool (2008)
as Grace Scott
Emma (1996)
as Jane Fairfax
To Kill a King (2003)
as Lady Anne Fairfax
The Body (2001)
as Sharon Golban
Another End (2024)
as Juliette
The Heart of Me (2004)
as Madeleine
Salting the Battlefield (2014)
as Belinda Kay
Wild Bill (2011)
as Kelly
Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll (2010)
as Betty Dury
Four Dogs Playing Poker (2000)
as Audrey
My Name Is Leon (2022)
as Sylvia
Lucky Break (2001)
as Annabel
The Hotel In Amsterdam (2004)
as Annie
Miss Austen Regrets (2008)
as Jane Austen
Krakatoa: The Last Days (2006)
as Johanna Beijerinck
The Making of 'Rushmore' (2000)
as Self
National Theatre Archive: Mosquitoes (2017)
as Alice
Born Romantic (2000)
as Eleanor
The Guest (2013)
as Marguerite
Agatha Christie: A Life in Pictures (2004)
as Agatha Christie
Tara Road (2005)
as Ria
Pigs (2024)
as Mum
Broken Lines (2008)
as Zoe
The White King (2016)
as Sophia (voice)
Dead Babies (2000)
as Diana
Nyet! (2019)
as Mrs. Pyke
Collaborator (2011)
as Emma Stiles
Emma, Change the Locks (2015)
as Emma
Altar (2014)
as Meg
Magpie (2014)
as The Woman
The Impact (2022)
as The President
Damage (2007)
as Michelle Cahill
The Escape (2017)
as Sarah
X-Men: The Last Stand (2006)
as Dr. Moira MacTaggert (uncredited)