Olivia Williams
Acting
- Born:
- 1968-07-26
- Place of birth:
- Camden Town, London, England, UK
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
Filmography
The Good Daughter
Young Sherlock
Monster: The Ed Gein Story
Dune: Prophecy
Pigs
The Trouble with Jessica
Another End
Unknown Belize
Funny Woman
The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power
My Name Is Leon
The Impact
The Wheel of Time
The Nevers
The Father
Homemade
Nyet!
Counterpart
National Theatre Archive: Mosquitoes
Victoria & Abdul
The Escape
The Halcyon
The Crown
The White King
Emma, Change the Locks
Man Up
Altar
Seventh Son
Manhattan
Magpie
Maps to the Stars
Sabotage
Salting the Battlefield
The Last Days on Mars
Justin and the Knights of Valour
The Guest
Hyde Park on Hudson
Now Is Good
Anna Karenina
Playhouse Presents
Wild Bill
Collaborator
Case Sensitive
Hanna
OK! TV
Terriers
The Ghost Writer
Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll
An Education
Dollhouse
Broken Lines
Flashbacks of a Fool
Miss Austen Regrets
Damage
Krakatoa: The Last Days
X-Men: The Last Stand
Tara Road
Valiant
Agatha Christie: A Life in Pictures
The Hotel In Amsterdam
The Heart of Me
Peter Pan
To Kill a King
Below
The Man from Elysian Fields
Lucky Break
The Body
Born Romantic
Dead Babies
Four Dogs Playing Poker
Jason and the Argonauts
The Making of 'Rushmore'
Spaced
The Sixth Sense
Rushmore
The Postman
Emma
Friends
The Ruth Rendell Mysteries
Van der Valk