Olivia Williams
Acting
Born: July 26, 1968 (age 58) · Camden Town, London, England, UK
Highest Rated
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
The Sixth Sense
1999
X-Men: The Last Stand
2006
Friends
1994
The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power
2022
Hanna
2011
The Father
2020
Peter Pan
2003
Rushmore
1998
Seventh Son
2014
The Ghost Writer
2010
The Wheel of Time
2021
Anna Karenina
2012
Photos (10)
Movies (53)
The Sixth Sense
Anna Crowe
Seventh Son
Mam Ward
The Father
The Woman
The Postman
Abby
Peter Pan
Mary Darling
Hanna
Rachel
The Ghost Writer
Ruth Lang
Rushmore
Rosemary Cross
Sabotage
Caroline
Anna Karenina
Countess Vronsky
Valiant
Victoria (voice)
Maps to the Stars
Cristina Weiss
The Last Days on Mars
Kim Aldrich
Below
Claire
The Man from Elysian Fields
Andrea
Emma
Jane Fairfax
Victoria & Abdul
Baroness Churchill
The Body
Sharon Golban
The Trouble with Jessica
Beth
An Education
Miss Stubbs
Justin and the Knights of Valour
Queen (voice)
Man Up
Hilary
Salting the Battlefield
Belinda Kay
Now Is Good
Mother
Hyde Park on Hudson
Eleanor Roosevelt
To Kill a King
Lady Anne Fairfax
Another End
Juliette
Flashbacks of a Fool
Grace Scott
Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll
Betty Dury
Lucky Break
Annabel
Wild Bill
Kelly
Miss Austen Regrets
Jane Austen
Tara Road
Ria
Pigs
Mum
Born Romantic
Eleanor
Krakatoa: The Last Days
Johanna Beijerinck
The Hotel In Amsterdam
Annie
Four Dogs Playing Poker
Audrey
The White King
Sophia (voice)
Emma, Change the Locks
Emma
My Name Is Leon
Sylvia
Dead Babies
Diana
The Escape
Sarah
The Heart of Me
Madeleine
Collaborator
Emma Stiles
Agatha Christie: A Life in Pictures
Agatha Christie
Broken Lines
Zoe
Altar
Meg
Nyet!
Mrs. Pyke
National Theatre Archive: Mosquitoes
Alice
X-Men: The Last Stand
Dr. Moira MacTaggert (uncredited)
Damage
Michelle Cahill
The Impact
The President
TV Shows (23)
Jason and the Argonauts
Hera · 2 eps
Friends
Felicity · 1 eps
The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power
Winterbloom (voice) · 1 eps
The Crown
Camilla Parker Bowles · 9 eps
The Wheel of Time
Queen Morgase Trakand · 1 eps
Monster: The Ed Gein Story
Alma Reville · 2 eps
Dollhouse
Adelle DeWitt · 25 eps
Young Sherlock
3 eps
Dune: Prophecy
Reverend Mother Tula Harkonnen · 14 eps
The Nevers
Lavinia Bidlow · 6 eps
Playhouse Presents
Dorothy Green · 1 eps
The Ruth Rendell Mysteries
Jennifer Norris · 1 eps
Counterpart
Emily Burton Silk · 20 eps
Manhattan
Liza Winter · 23 eps
Van der Valk
Irene Kortman · 1 eps
Spaced
Irate Cyclist · 1 eps
Terriers
Miriam Foster · 1 eps
OK! TV
2 eps
Funny Woman
Gloria Balderstone, Barbara's mother · 3 eps
Homemade
Queen (voice) · 1 eps
The Halcyon
Lady Priscilla Hamilton · 8 eps
Case Sensitive
Charlie Zailer · 4 eps
Unknown Belize
Narrator · 4 eps
