Olivia Williams
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- Jul 26, 1968 (age 58)
- Place of birth
- Camden Town, London, England, UK
- Credits
- 80
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
The Sixth Sense
1999Movie
Anna Crowe
X-Men: The Last Stand
2006Movie
Dr. Moira MacTaggert (uncredited)
Friends
1994TV
Felicity
The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power
2022TV
Winterbloom (voice)
The Father
2020Movie
The Woman
Hanna
2011Movie
Rachel
Filmography
The Good Daughter
2026TV
Harriet 'Gamma' Quinn
Young Sherlock
2026TV
Monster: The Ed Gein Story
2025TV
Alma Reville
Dune: Prophecy
2024TV
Reverend Mother Tula Harkonnen
Pigs
2024Movie
Mum
The Trouble with Jessica
2024Movie
Beth
Another End
2024Movie
Juliette
Unknown Belize
2024TV
Narrator
Funny Woman
2023TV
Gloria Balderstone, Barbara's mother
The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power
2022TV
Winterbloom (voice)
My Name Is Leon
2022Movie
Sylvia
The Impact
2022Movie
The President
The Wheel of Time
2021TV
Queen Morgase Trakand
The Nevers
2021TV
Lavinia Bidlow
The Father
2020Movie
The Woman
Homemade
2020TV
Queen (voice)
Nyet!
2019Movie
Mrs. Pyke
Counterpart
2017TV
Emily Burton Silk
National Theatre Archive: Mosquitoes
2017Movie
Alice
Victoria & Abdul
2017Movie
Baroness Churchill
The Escape
2017Movie
Sarah
The Halcyon
2017TV
Lady Priscilla Hamilton
The Crown
2016TV
Camilla Parker Bowles
The White King
2016Movie
Sophia (voice)
Emma, Change the Locks
2015Movie
Emma
Man Up
2015Movie
Hilary
Altar
2014Movie
Meg
Seventh Son
2014Movie
Mam Ward
Manhattan
2014TV
Liza Winter
Magpie
2014Movie
The Woman
Maps to the Stars
2014Movie
Cristina Weiss
Sabotage
2014Movie
Caroline
Salting the Battlefield
2014Movie
Belinda Kay
The Last Days on Mars
2013Movie
Kim Aldrich
Justin and the Knights of Valour
2013Movie
Queen (voice)
The Guest
2013Movie
Marguerite
Hyde Park on Hudson
2012Movie
Eleanor Roosevelt
Now Is Good
2012Movie
Mother
Anna Karenina
2012Movie
Countess Vronsky
Playhouse Presents
2012TV
Dorothy Green
Wild Bill
2011Movie
Kelly
Collaborator
2011Movie
Emma Stiles
Case Sensitive
2011TV
Charlie Zailer
Hanna
2011Movie
Rachel
OK! TV
2011TV
Terriers
2010TV
Miriam Foster
The Ghost Writer
2010Movie
Ruth Lang
Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll
2010Movie
Betty Dury
An Education
2009Movie
Miss Stubbs
Dollhouse
2009TV
Adelle DeWitt
Broken Lines
2008Movie
Zoe
Flashbacks of a Fool
2008Movie
Grace Scott
Miss Austen Regrets
2008Movie
Jane Austen
Damage
2007Movie
Michelle Cahill
Krakatoa: The Last Days
2006Movie
Johanna Beijerinck
X-Men: The Last Stand
2006Movie
Dr. Moira MacTaggert (uncredited)
Tara Road
2005Movie
Ria
Valiant
2005Movie
Victoria (voice)
Agatha Christie: A Life in Pictures
2004Movie
Agatha Christie
The Hotel In Amsterdam
2004Movie
Annie
The Heart of Me
2004Movie
Madeleine
Peter Pan
2003Movie
Mary Darling
To Kill a King
2003Movie
Lady Anne Fairfax
Below
2002Movie
Claire
The Man from Elysian Fields
2001Movie
Andrea
Lucky Break
2001Movie
Annabel
The Body
2001Movie
Sharon Golban
Born Romantic
2000Movie
Eleanor
Dead Babies
2000Movie
Diana
Four Dogs Playing Poker
2000Movie
Audrey
Jason and the Argonauts
2000TV
Hera
The Making of 'Rushmore'
2000Movie
Self
Spaced
1999TV
Irate Cyclist
The Sixth Sense
1999Movie
Anna Crowe
Rushmore
1998Movie
Rosemary Cross
The Postman
1997Movie
Abby
Emma
1996Movie
Jane Fairfax
Friends
1994TV
Felicity
The Ruth Rendell Mysteries
1987TV
Jennifer Norris
Van der Valk
1972TV
Irene Kortman