Olivia Williams
Acting
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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.
Filmography
The Good Daughter
2026
Monster: The Ed Gein Story
2025
Dune: Prophecy
2024
Pigs
2024
The Trouble with Jessica
2024
Another End
2024
Unknown Belize
2024
Funny Woman
2023
The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power
2022
My Name Is Leon
2022
The Impact
2022
The Wheel of Time
2021
The Nevers
2021
The Father
2020
Homemade
2020
Nyet!
2019
Counterpart
2017
National Theatre Archive: Mosquitoes
2017
National Theatre Live: Mosquitoes
2017
Victoria & Abdul
2017
The Escape
2017
The Halcyon
2017
The Crown
2016
The White King
2016
Emma, Change the Locks
2015
Man Up
2015
Altar
2014
Seventh Son
2014
Manhattan
2014
Magpie
2014
Maps to the Stars
2014
Sabotage
2014
Salting the Battlefield
2014
The Last Days on Mars
2013
Justin and the Knights of Valour
2013
The Guest
2013
Hyde Park on Hudson
2012
Now Is Good
2012
Anna Karenina
2012
Playhouse Presents
2012
Wild Bill
2011
Collaborator
2011
Case Sensitive
2011
Hanna
2011
OK! TV
2011
Terriers
2010
The Ghost Writer
2010
Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll
2010
An Education
2009
Dollhouse
2009
Broken Lines
2008
Flashbacks of a Fool
2008
Miss Austen Regrets
2008
Damage
2007
Krakatoa: The Last Days
2006
X-Men: The Last Stand
2006
Tara Road
2005
Valiant
2005
Agatha Christie: A Life in Pictures
2004
The Hotel In Amsterdam
2004
The Heart of Me
2004
Peter Pan
2003
To Kill a King
2003
Below
2002
The Man from Elysian Fields
2001
Lucky Break
2001
The Body
2001
Born Romantic
2000
Dead Babies
2000
Four Dogs Playing Poker
2000
Jason and the Argonauts
2000
The Making of 'Rushmore'
2000
The Sixth Sense
1999
Rushmore
1998
The Postman
1997
Emma
1996
Friends
1994
The Ruth Rendell Mysteries
1987
Van der Valk
1972