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Olivia Williams

Born 1968-07-26
📍 Camden Town, London, England, UK

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 77

Monster: The Ed Gein Story
as Alma Reville
2025
Dune: Prophecy
as Reverend Mother Tula Harkonnen
2024
Pigs
as Mum
2024
The Trouble with Jessica
as Beth
2024
Another End
as Juliette
2024
Unknown Belize
as Narrator
2024
Funny Woman
as Gloria Balderstone, Barbara's mother
2023
The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power
as Winterbloom (voice)
2022
My Name Is Leon
as Sylvia
2022
The Impact
as The President
2022
The Wheel of Time
as Queen Morgase Trakand
2021
The Nevers
as Lavinia Bidlow
2021
The Father
as The Woman
2020
Homemade
as Queen (voice)
2020
Nyet!
as Mrs. Pyke
2019
Counterpart
as Emily Burton Silk
2017
National Theatre Archive: Mosquitoes
as Alice
2017
National Theatre Live: Mosquitoes
as Alice
2017
Victoria & Abdul
as Baroness Churchill
2017
The Escape
as Sarah
2017
The Halcyon
as Lady Priscilla Hamilton
2017
The Crown
as Camilla Parker Bowles
2016
The White King
as Sophia (voice)
2016
Emma, Change the Locks
as Emma
2015
Man Up
as Hilary
2015
Altar
as Meg
2014
Seventh Son
as Mam Ward
2014
Manhattan
as Liza Winter
2014
Maps to the Stars
as Cristina Weiss
2014
Sabotage
as Caroline
2014
Salting the Battlefield
as Belinda Kay
2014
The Last Days on Mars
as Kim Aldrich
2013
Justin and the Knights of Valour
as Queen (voice)
2013
Hyde Park on Hudson
as Eleanor Roosevelt
2012
Now Is Good
as Mother
2012
Anna Karenina
as Countess Vronsky
2012
Playhouse Presents
as Dorothy Green
2012
Wild Bill
as Kelly
2011
Collaborator
as Emma Stiles
2011
Case Sensitive
as Charlie Zailer
2011
Hanna
as Rachel
2011
OK! TV
2011
Terriers
as Miriam Foster
2010
The Ghost Writer
as Ruth Lang
2010
Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll
as Betty Dury
2010
An Education
as Miss Stubbs
2009
Dollhouse
as Adelle DeWitt
2009
Broken Lines
as Zoe
2008
Flashbacks of a Fool
as Grace Scott
2008
Miss Austen Regrets
as Jane Austen
2008
Damage
as Michelle Cahill
2007
Krakatoa: The Last Days
as Johanna Beijerinck
2006
X-Men: The Last Stand
as Dr. Moira MacTaggert (uncredited)
2006
Tara Road
as Ria
2005
Valiant
as Victoria (voice)
2005
Agatha Christie: A Life in Pictures
as Agatha Christie
2004
The Hotel In Amsterdam
as Annie
2004
The Heart of Me
as Madeleine
2004
Peter Pan
as Mary Darling
2003
To Kill a King
as Lady Anne Fairfax
2003
Below
as Claire
2002
The Man from Elysian Fields
as Andrea
2001
Lucky Break
as Annabel
2001
The Body
as Sharon Golban
2001
Born Romantic
as Eleanor
2000
Dead Babies
as Diana
2000
Four Dogs Playing Poker
as Audrey
2000
Jason and the Argonauts
as Hera
2000
The Making of 'Rushmore'
as Self
2000
Spaced
as Irate Cyclist
1999
The Sixth Sense
as Anna Crowe
1999
Rushmore
as Rosemary Cross
1998
The Postman
as Abby
1997
Emma
as Jane Fairfax
1996
Friends
as Felicity
1994
The Ruth Rendell Mysteries
as Jennifer Norris
1987
Van der Valk
as Irene Kortman
1972