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

The Crown

Friends

The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power

The Wheel of Time

Dollhouse

Monster: The Ed Gein Story

Dune: Prophecy

The Nevers

All Movies (56)

• Pigs2024 · as Mum
• The Trouble with Jessica2024 · as Beth
• Another End2024 · as Juliette
• My Name Is Leon2022 · as Sylvia
• The Impact2022 · as The President
• The Father2020 · as The Woman
• Nyet!2019 · as Mrs. Pyke
• National Theatre Archive: Mosquitoes2017 · as Alice
• Victoria & Abdul2017 · as Baroness Churchill
• The Escape2017 · as Sarah
• The White King2016 · as Sophia (voice)
• Emma, Change the Locks2015 · as Emma
• Man Up2015 · as Hilary
• Altar2014 · as Meg
• Seventh Son2014 · as Mam Ward
• Magpie2014 · as The Woman
• Maps to the Stars2014 · as Cristina Weiss
• Sabotage2014 · as Caroline
• Salting the Battlefield2014 · as Belinda Kay
• The Last Days on Mars2013 · as Kim Aldrich
• Justin and the Knights of Valour2013 · as Queen (voice)
• The Guest2013 · as Marguerite
• Hyde Park on Hudson2012 · as Eleanor Roosevelt
• Now Is Good2012 · as Mother
• Anna Karenina2012 · as Countess Vronsky
• Wild Bill2011 · as Kelly
• Collaborator2011 · as Emma Stiles
• Hanna2011 · as Rachel
• The Ghost Writer2010 · as Ruth Lang
• Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll2010 · as Betty Dury
• An Education2009 · as Miss Stubbs
• Broken Lines2008 · as Zoe
• Flashbacks of a Fool2008 · as Grace Scott
• Miss Austen Regrets2008 · as Jane Austen
• Damage2007 · as Michelle Cahill
• Krakatoa: The Last Days2006 · as Johanna Beijerinck
• X-Men: The Last Stand2006 · as Dr. Moira MacTaggert (uncredited)
• Tara Road2005 · as Ria
• Valiant2005 · as Victoria (voice)
• Agatha Christie: A Life in Pictures2004 · as Agatha Christie
• The Hotel In Amsterdam2004 · as Annie
• The Heart of Me2004 · as Madeleine
• Peter Pan2003 · as Mary Darling
• To Kill a King2003 · as Lady Anne Fairfax
• Below2002 · as Claire
• The Man from Elysian Fields2001 · as Andrea
• Lucky Break2001 · as Annabel
• The Body2001 · as Sharon Golban
• Born Romantic2000 · as Eleanor
• Dead Babies2000 · as Diana
• Four Dogs Playing Poker2000 · as Audrey
• The Making of 'Rushmore'2000 · as Self
• The Sixth Sense1999 · as Anna Crowe
• Rushmore1998 · as Rosemary Cross
• The Postman1997 · as Abby
• Emma1996 · as Jane Fairfax

All TV Shows (23)

• The Good Daughter2026 · as Harriet 'Gamma' Quinn
• Monster: The Ed Gein Story2025 · as Alma Reville
• Dune: Prophecy2024 · as Reverend Mother Tula Harkonnen
• Unknown Belize2024 · as Narrator
• Funny Woman2023 · as Gloria Balderstone, Barbara's mother
• The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power2022 · as Winterbloom (voice)
• The Wheel of Time2021 · as Queen Morgase Trakand
• The Nevers2021 · as Lavinia Bidlow
• Homemade2020 · as Queen (voice)
• Counterpart2017 · as Emily Burton Silk
• The Halcyon2017 · as Lady Priscilla Hamilton
• The Crown2016 · as Camilla Parker Bowles
• Manhattan2014 · as Liza Winter
• Playhouse Presents2012 · as Dorothy Green
• Case Sensitive2011 · as Charlie Zailer
• OK! TV2011
• Terriers2010 · as Miriam Foster
• Dollhouse2009 · as Adelle DeWitt
• Jason and the Argonauts2000 · as Hera
• Spaced1999 · as Irate Cyclist
• Friends1994 · as Felicity
• The Ruth Rendell Mysteries1987 · as Jennifer Norris
• Van der Valk1972 · as Irene Kortman