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