Known For
Acting
Born
Jul 26, 1968
Place of Birth
Camden Town, London, England, UK
Credits
79 titles
Olivia Williams
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
Harriet 'Gamma' Quinn
Monster: The Ed Gein Story
Alma Reville
Dune: Prophecy
Reverend Mother Tula Harkonnen
Pigs
Mum
The Trouble with Jessica
Beth
Another End
Juliette
Unknown Belize
Narrator
Funny Woman
Gloria Balderstone, Barbara's mother
The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power
Winterbloom (voice)
My Name Is Leon
Sylvia
The Impact
The President
The Wheel of Time
Queen Morgase Trakand
The Nevers
Lavinia Bidlow
The Father
The Woman
Homemade
Queen (voice)
Nyet!
Mrs. Pyke
Counterpart
Emily Burton Silk
National Theatre Archive: Mosquitoes
Alice
Victoria & Abdul
Baroness Churchill
The Escape
Sarah
The Halcyon
Lady Priscilla Hamilton
The Crown
Camilla Parker Bowles
The White King
Sophia (voice)
Emma, Change the Locks
Emma
Man Up
Hilary
Altar
Meg
Seventh Son
Mam Ward
Manhattan
Liza Winter
Magpie
The Woman
Maps to the Stars
Cristina Weiss
Sabotage
Caroline
Salting the Battlefield
Belinda Kay
The Last Days on Mars
Kim Aldrich
Justin and the Knights of Valour
Queen (voice)
The Guest
Marguerite
Hyde Park on Hudson
Eleanor Roosevelt
Now Is Good
Mother
Anna Karenina
Countess Vronsky
Playhouse Presents
Dorothy Green
Wild Bill
Kelly
Collaborator
Emma Stiles
Case Sensitive
Charlie Zailer
Hanna
Rachel
OK! TV
Terriers
Miriam Foster
The Ghost Writer
Ruth Lang
Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll
Betty Dury
An Education
Miss Stubbs
Dollhouse
Adelle DeWitt
Broken Lines
Zoe