A
Another End
as Juliette
2024
O
Olivia Williams
Also known as Olivia Haigh Williams, اولیویا ویلیامز
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.
Personal details
Full filmography
2024
T
The Trouble with Jessica
as Beth
2024
P
Pigs
as Mum
2024
2022
T
The Impact
as The President
2022
M
My Name Is Leon
as Sylvia
2022
2020
T
The Father
as The Woman
2020
2019
N
Nyet!
as Mrs. Pyke
2019
2017
V
Victoria & Abdul
as Baroness Churchill
2017
N
National Theatre Archive: Mosquitoes
as Alice
2017
T
The Escape
as Sarah
2017
2016
T
The White King
as Sophia (voice)
2016
2015
M
Man Up
as Hilary
2015
E
Emma, Change the Locks
as Emma
2015
2014
S
Sabotage
as Caroline
2014
M
Maps to the Stars
as Cristina Weiss
2014
S
Salting the Battlefield
as Belinda Kay
2014
S
Seventh Son
as Mam Ward
2014
A
Altar
as Meg
2014
M
Magpie
as The Woman
2014
2013
J
Justin and the Knights of Valour
as Queen (voice)
2013
T
The Last Days on Mars
as Kim Aldrich
2013
T
The Guest
as Marguerite
2013
2012
N
Now Is Good
as Mother
2012
A
Anna Karenina
as Countess Vronsky
2012
H
Hyde Park on Hudson
as Eleanor Roosevelt
2012
2011
H
Hanna
as Rachel
2011
W
Wild Bill
as Kelly
2011
C
Collaborator
as Emma Stiles
2011
2010
T
The Ghost Writer
as Ruth Lang
2010
S
Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll
as Betty Dury
2010
2009
A
An Education
as Miss Stubbs
2009
2008
F
Flashbacks of a Fool
as Grace Scott
2008
M
Miss Austen Regrets
as Jane Austen
2008
B
Broken Lines
as Zoe
2008
2007
D
Damage
as Michelle Cahill
2007
2006
K
Krakatoa: The Last Days
as Johanna Beijerinck
2006
X
X-Men: The Last Stand
as Dr. Moira MacTaggert (uncredited)
2006
2005
T
Tara Road
as Ria
2005
V
Valiant
as Victoria (voice)
2005
2004
A
Agatha Christie: A Life in Pictures
as Agatha Christie
2004
T
The Heart of Me
as Madeleine
2004
T
The Hotel In Amsterdam
as Annie
2004
2003
T
To Kill a King
as Lady Anne Fairfax
2003
P
Peter Pan
as Mary Darling
2003
2002
B
Below
as Claire
2002
2001
T
The Body
as Sharon Golban
2001
L
Lucky Break
as Annabel
2001
T
The Man from Elysian Fields
as Andrea
2001
2000
F
Four Dogs Playing Poker
as Audrey
2000
B
Born Romantic
as Eleanor
2000
D
Dead Babies
as Diana
2000
T
The Making of 'Rushmore'
as Self
2000
1999
T
The Sixth Sense
as Anna Crowe
1999
1998
R
Rushmore
as Rosemary Cross
1998
1997
T
The Postman
as Abby
1997
1996
E
Emma
as Jane Fairfax
1996
