
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.
Filmography

Pigs
2024
as Mum

The Trouble with Jessica
2024
as Beth

Another End
2024
as Juliette

My Name Is Leon
2022
as Sylvia

The Impact
2022
as The President

The Father
2020
as The Woman

Nyet!
2019
as Mrs. Pyke

National Theatre Archive: Mosquitoes
2017
as Alice

Victoria & Abdul
2017
as Baroness Churchill

The Escape
2017
as Sarah

The White King
2016
as Sophia (voice)

Emma, Change the Locks
2015
as Emma

Man Up
2015
as Hilary

Altar
2014
as Meg

Seventh Son
2014
as Mam Ward
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Magpie
2014
as The Woman

Maps to the Stars
2014
as Cristina Weiss

Sabotage
2014
as Caroline

Salting the Battlefield
2014
as Belinda Kay

The Last Days on Mars
2013
as Kim Aldrich

Justin and the Knights of Valour
2013
as Queen (voice)
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The Guest
2013
as Marguerite

Hyde Park on Hudson
2012
as Eleanor Roosevelt

Now Is Good
2012
as Mother