
Olivia Williams
ActingAlso Known As
Olivia Haigh Williams, اولیویا ویلیامز
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.
Movies
(57 total)
The Sixth Sense
as Anna Crowe

X-Men: The Last Stand
as Dr. Moira MacTaggert

Hanna
as Rachel

The Father
as The Woman

Peter Pan
as Mary Darling

Rushmore
as Rosemary Cross

Seventh Son
as Mam Ward

The Ghost Writer
as Ruth Lang

Anna Karenina
as Countess Vronsky

Sabotage
as Caroline

An Education
as Miss Stubbs

Victoria & Abdul
as Baroness Churchill

The Postman
as Abby

Maps to the Stars
as Cristina Weiss

Now Is Good
as Mother

Man Up
as Hilary

Valiant
as Victoria (voice)

The Last Days on Mars
as Kim Aldrich

Below
as Claire

Justin and the Knights of Valour
as Queen (voice)
TV Shows
(22 total)
Friends
as Felicity

The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power
as Winterbloom (voice)

The Wheel of Time
as Queen Morgase Trakand

The Crown
as Camilla Parker Bowles

The Nevers
as Lavinia Bidlow

Dune: Prophecy
as Reverend Mother Tula Harkonnen

Spaced
as Irate Cyclist

Dollhouse
as Adelle DeWitt

Monster: The Ed Gein Story
as Alma Reville

Counterpart
as Emily Burton Silk

Manhattan
as Liza Winter

Terriers
as Miriam Foster

The Halcyon
as Lady Priscilla Hamilton

Funny Woman
as Gloria Balderstone, Barbara's mother

Homemade
as Queen (voice)

Case Sensitive
as Charlie Zailer

The Ruth Rendell Mysteries
as Jennifer Norris

Van der Valk
as Irene Kortman

