Olivia Williams
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.
Acted in
Dune: Prophecy
2024
as Reverend Mother Tula Harkonnen
The Trouble with Jessica
2024
as Beth
Another End
2024
as Juliette
The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power
2022
as Winterbloom (voice)
My Name Is Leon
2022
as Sylvia
The Impact
2022
as The President
The Nevers
2021
as Lavinia Bidlow
The Father
2020
as The Woman
Homemade
2020
as Queen (voice)
Nyet!
2019
as Mrs. Pyke
Counterpart
2017
as Emily Burton Silk
Victoria & Abdul
2017
as Baroness Churchill
National Theatre Live: Mosquitoes
2017
as Alice
The Halcyon
2017
as Lady Priscilla Hamilton
The Crown
2016
as Camilla Parker Bowles
The White King
2016
as Sophia (voice)
Man Up
2015
as Hilary
Altar
2014
as Meg
Seventh Son
2014
as Mam Ward
Manhattan
2014
as Liza Winter
Magpie
2014
as The Woman
Maps to the Stars
2014
as Cristina Weiss
Sabotage
2014
as Investigator Caroline Brentwood
Salting the Battlefield
2014
as Belinda Kay
The Last Days on Mars
2013
as Kim Aldrich
Justin and the Knights of Valour
2013
as Queen (voice)
The Guest
2013
as Marguerite
Hyde Park on Hudson
2012
as Eleanor Roosevelt
Now Is Good
2012
as Mother
Anna Karenina
2012
as Countess Vronsky
Wild Bill
2011
as Kelly
Collaborator
2011
as Emma Stiles
Case Sensitive
2011
as Charlie Zailer
Hanna
2011
as Rachel
Terriers
2010
as Miriam Foster
The Ghost Writer
2010
as Ruth Lang
Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll
2010
as Betty Dury
An Education
2009
as Miss Stubbs
Dollhouse
2009
as Adelle DeWitt
Broken Lines
2008
as Zoe
Flashbacks of a Fool
2008
as Grace Scott
Miss Austen Regrets
2008
as Jane Austen
Damage
2007
as Michelle Cahill
Krakatoa: The Last Days
2006
as Johanna Beijerinck
X-Men: The Last Stand
2006
as Dr. Moira MacTaggert
Tara Road
2005
as Ria
Valiant
2005
as Victoria (voice)
Agatha Christie: A Life in Pictures
2004
as Agatha Christie
The Hotel In Amsterdam
2004
The Heart of Me
2004
as Madeleine
Peter Pan
2003
as Mrs. Darling
To Kill a King
2003
as Lady Anne Fairfax
Below
2002
as Claire
The Man from Elysian Fields
2001
as Andrea
Lucky Break
2001
as Annabel
The Body
2001
as Sharon Golban
Born Romantic
2000
as Eleanor
Dead Babies
2000
Four Dogs Playing Poker
2000
as Audrey
Jason and the Argonauts
2000
as Hera
Spaced
1999
as Irate Cyclist
The Sixth Sense
1999
as Anna Crowe
Rushmore
1998
as Rosemary Cross
The Postman
1997
as Abby
Emma
1996
as Jane Fairfax
Friends
1994
as Felicity
The Ruth Rendell Mysteries
1987
as Jennifer Norris
Van der Valk
1972
as Irene Kortman