Acting
Olivia Williams
EN cinema · 56 credits
Born
26 July 1968 (age 58)
Birthplace
Camden Town, London, England, UK
Also known as Olivia Haigh Williams
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
Filmography
Another End
as Juliette
Pigs
as Mum
The Impact
as The President
My Name Is Leon
as Sylvia
The Father
as The Woman
Nyet!
as Mrs. Pyke
Victoria & Abdul
as Baroness Churchill
The Escape
as Sarah
The White King
as Sophia (voice)
Man Up
as Hilary
Sabotage
as Caroline
Maps to the Stars
as Cristina Weiss
Salting the Battlefield
as Belinda Kay
Seventh Son
as Mam Ward
Altar
as Meg
Magpie
2014
Magpie
as The Woman
Justin and the Knights of Valour
as Queen (voice)
The Last Days on Mars
as Kim Aldrich
The Guest
2013
The Guest
as Marguerite
Now Is Good
as Mother
Anna Karenina
as Countess Vronsky
Hyde Park on Hudson
as Eleanor Roosevelt
Hanna
as Rachel
Wild Bill
as Kelly
Collaborator
as Emma Stiles
The Ghost Writer
as Ruth Lang
Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll
as Betty Dury
An Education
as Miss Stubbs
Flashbacks of a Fool
as Grace Scott
Miss Austen Regrets
as Jane Austen
Broken Lines
as Zoe
Damage
as Michelle Cahill
Krakatoa: The Last Days
as Johanna Beijerinck
X-Men: The Last Stand
as Dr. Moira MacTaggert (uncredited)
Tara Road
as Ria
Valiant
as Victoria (voice)
Agatha Christie: A Life in Pictures
as Agatha Christie
The Heart of Me
as Madeleine
To Kill a King
as Lady Anne Fairfax
Peter Pan
as Mary Darling
Below
as Claire
The Body
as Sharon Golban
Lucky Break
as Annabel
Four Dogs Playing Poker
as Audrey
Born Romantic
as Eleanor
Dead Babies
as Diana
The Sixth Sense
as Anna Crowe
Rushmore
as Rosemary Cross
The Postman
as Abby
Emma
as Jane Fairfax