Olivia Williams

Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Known Credits

68

Gender

Female

Birthday

1968-07-26 (55 years old)

Place of Birth

Camden Town, London, England, UK

Also Known As

  • Оливия Уильямс

Olivia Williams

Biography

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.

Known For

The Sixth Sense
8.0%

The Sixth Sense

Aug 6, 1999

X-Men: The Last Stand
6.4%

X-Men: The Last Stand

May 24, 2006

Friends
8.4%

Friends

Sep 22, 1994

Hanna
6.6%

Hanna

Apr 7, 2011

The Father
8.1%

The Father

Dec 23, 2020

Peter Pan
7.2%

Peter Pan

Dec 18, 2003

Seventh Son
5.5%

Seventh Son

Dec 12, 2014

Rushmore
7.4%

Rushmore

Dec 11, 1998

Anna Karenina
6.7%

Anna Karenina

Sep 6, 2012

The Ghost Writer
6.8%

The Ghost Writer

Feb 12, 2010

The Crown
8.2%

The Crown

Nov 4, 2016

Sabotage
5.6%

Sabotage

Mar 28, 2014

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Acting

Dune: Prophecy as Tula Harkonnen
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
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 White King as Sophia (voice)
2017
The Halcyon as Lady Priscilla Hamilton
2016
The Crown as Camilla Parker Bowles
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
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
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
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
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